Quotes About Divine

No one can attain any degree of holiness without God working in his life

If there is a single event in all of the universe that can occur outside of God's sovereign control, then we cannot trust Him.

The sovereignty of God is the one impregnable rock to which the suffering human heart must cling.

God did not simply create and then walk away. He constantly sustains that which He created.

God had brought a "crooked" event into my life, and I became acutely aware that only He could straighten it. Could I trust God whether or not He

God had brought a "crooked" event into my life, and I became acutely aware that only He could straighten it. Could I trust God whether or not He straightened my "crook" and relieved my distress?

God's sovereignty does not negate our responsibility to pray, but rather makes it possible to pray with confidence.

God's government is perfect and just. His moral law is "holy, righteous and good" (Romans 7:12). No one ever has a valid reason to rebel against the government of God. We rebel for only one reason: We were born rebellious. We were born with a perverse inclination to go our own way, to set up our own internal government rather than submit to God.

God is perfect in love.

He himself gives all men life and breath and everything else…. 'For in him we live and move and have our being

Under God, however, all things are without exception fully controlled—despite all appearances to the contrary.

Nothing is too large or small to escape God's governing hand. The spider building its web in the corner and Napoleon marching his army across Europe are both under God's control.

The sovereignty of God is often questioned because man does not understand what God is doing. Because

God did not excuse Abraham's sin, but He did not let that stop Him from intervening in Abimelech's mind to prevent the serious consequences of the sin.

not have swooped down upon Jacob and his family to avenge the crime of Jacob's sons except that God restrained them through a fear that could not be rationally explained.

God is in control; He is sovereign. He does whatever pleases Him and determines whether we can do what we have planned.

These stories are meant to teach us that God is sovereign over people and to encourage us by the knowledge that God exercises His sovereignty for our good.

He permits, for reasons known only to Himself, people to act contrary to and in defiance of His revealed will. But He never permits them to act contrary to His sovereign will.

And if God permits it, it is because the ungodly action is part of God's plan for him. No one can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not decreed it (see Lamentations 3:37).

Sometimes, according to the Bible, God even moves in the hearts of some people to act stubbornly.

For the LORD your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate in order to give him into your hands, as he has now done" (Deuteronomy 2:30).

but rather that He works in His mysterious way through their wills to accomplish His purposes.

George MacDonald: "I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of. For to have been thought about—born in God's thoughts—and then made by God is the dearest, grandest, most precious thing in all thinking.

So while the Bible asserts both God's sovereignty and people's freedom and moral responsibility, it never attempts to explain their relationship.