Quotes about Nation
And unto Me you shall be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you are to speak to the Israelites.”
— Exodus 19:6
Has a nation ever changed its gods, though they are no gods at all? Yet My people have exchanged their Glory for useless idols.
— Jeremiah 2:11
And when we did come out [of prison], my children said, "We thought we had a father and one day he'd come back. But to our dismay, our father came back and he left us alone because he has now become the father of the nation.
— Nelson Mandela
German culture was inescapably Christian. This was a result of the legacy of Martin Luther, the Catholic monk who invented Protestantism. Looming over the German culture and nation like both a father and a mother, Luther was to Germany something like what Moses was to Israel;
— Eric Metaxas
Those who control what young people are taught, and what they experience - what they see, hear, think, and believe - will determine the future course for the nation.
— James Dobson
Or has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation—by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors—as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, before your eyes?
— Deuteronomy 4:34
“Son of man,” He said to me, “I am sending you to the Israelites, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against Me. To this very day they and their fathers have rebelled against Me.
— Ezekiel 2:3
And God told him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation—even a company of nations—shall come from you, and kings shall descend from you.
— Genesis 35:11
A nation that forgets its past has no future.
— Winston Churchill
In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.
— Marianne Williamson
When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.
— John Calvin
in this case, the blood of the Passover Lamb — means the difference between life and death. To ignore the requirements whereby the sign would be present is to invite death and destruction into your home and family — and your nation. So, to some degree, the choice to live or to die is left to us.
— Perry Stone