Quotes about Nations

It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.

An all-out attack on evolutionist thinking is possibly the only real hope our nations have of rescuing themselves from an inevitable social and moral catastrophe.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

As priests, we represent our nations, our neighborhoods, our families and our friends before the throne of Almighty God.

The Lord has given gifts to us as well, which, like Israel's of old, are also assignments: children, ministries, churches, cities, nations and many other things.

Territorial disputes have at all times been found one of the most fertile sources of hostility among nations. Perhaps the greatest proportion of wars that have desolated the earth have sprung from this origin.

Has commerce hitherto done anything more than change the objects of war? Is not the love of wealth as domineering and enterprising a passion as that of power or glory? Have there not been as many wars founded upon commercial motives since that has become the prevailing system of nations, as were before occasioned by the cupidity of territory or dominion? Has

Believe it, brethren, God looks for more from England, than from most nations in the world; and for more from you that enjoy these helps, than from the dark, untaught congregations of the land (271).

Without forgiveness there can be no future for a relationship between individuals or within and between nations.

The Word says: "The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.

Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

For I dipp'd into the future, far as human eye could see,Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be;Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails,Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales;Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'd a ghastly dewFrom the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue.