Quotes About Nation

In short, a nation in covenant with God is assured peace, prosperity and power. In sharp contrast, look at what befalls the nation that abandons the covenant.

The name is considered so sacred that when the scribes would record YHVH (Yahweh) in the scriptures, they would wash, write the name, then wash themselves again! The name was considered so sacred that in the synagogues in Christ's time, when the speaker was to read the sacred name of God, he replaced it with the name Adonai. This would become the covenant name of God to the Hebrew nation.

Pick up most books and articles on Washington from 1932 or earlier, and generally, with a few exceptions, you will read about George Washington the Christian. That began to change with the iconoclastic scholarship of the mid-twentieth century that sought to tear down the traditional understanding of our nation and its origins.

George Washington is known by Americans as the founding father of our nation. However, there has been great confusion and debate about his faith. The historic view was that he was a Christian. The consensus of scholars that has developed since the bicentennial of Washington's birth in 1932 is that he was a Deist, that is, one who believes in a very remote and impersonal God.

Consider Thomas Jefferson's declaration: "God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed our only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God?

What are the facts of history? And do they matter? The importance of this study is more than historical. Establishing that George Washington was a Christian helps to substantiate the critical role that Christians and Christian principles played in the founding of our nation.

They ... know from experience better than almost any other nation on earth how transient are material achievements and pomp and glory. ... the New Order pointed to the ruins of Persepolis as reminders of what Iran had once been and must strive to be again. The Iranian people also see in those ruins a monument to the vanity of human success.

When Australians talk of the men who saved Australia in 1942–43, of that time in their history when they also had to stand alone and help themselves, who fought not for the birth of a nation, but for its very rites of passage,

The Lakotas were the true horse-and-buffalo Sioux of popular imagination, and they constituted nearly half the Sioux nation.

If you entrust a nation's economy to an impulsive leader with no care for facts, disaster will follow.

Israel's beginnings are mysterious from an archaeological point of view, so we can't be dogmatic about explaining how and when Israel began. But it does seem that a nation eventually called "Israel" probably came on the scene gradually and relatively peacefully.

With stripes of red, white, and blue, the

If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.

Such was the quasi-religious fervour surrounding the concept of the nation that politicians were ready to use identifications of the ancient spread of 'peoples' as evidence for claims about the present.

after the West Coast, the New Madrid Zone in the nation's heartland provided the greatest earthquake risk in the United States.

But sharing the wealth threatened power-hungry elites in every nation, and these reactionaries blocked society's natural progress toward humane socialism. Capitalist societies became fascist; socialist ones became communist.

We trust people's lives to randomly selected juries as the only fair method; should we use any less fair method for a nation or a planet?

El pacto con Abraham unió a una familia con el Señor; el pacto por medio de Moisés unió a una nación con Él; el pacto con David unió a un reino con Él; el pacto de Jesús une su pueblo con Él.

I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

As for Ishmael, I have heard you, and I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He will become the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation.

Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and through him all the nations of the earth will be blessed.

Now Abimelech had not gone near her, so he replied, “Lord, would You destroy a nation even though it is innocent?

But I will also make a nation of the slave womanís son, because he is your offspring.”

Get up, lift up the boy, and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”