Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Never yet was a nation born that did not begin in the spirit, pass to the heart and the mind, and then take an outer form in the world of men.
Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.
Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool.
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.
Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.
Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
Nations cannot endure in sin.
Nationalism - in other words, the dividing of the church into bodies - consisting of such and such a nation, is a novelty, not above three centuries old, although many dear children of God are found dwelling in it.