Quotes About Lordship

But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth that is the happiness of being truly loved.

Why would God allow Adam and Eve to go through this temptation? Because He wanted them to choose who would be lord of their lives. The woman was convinced when she saw the beauty of the tree and how delicious its fruit looked that she wanted the wisdom it would give her. She was convinced that the tree would give her something God would not.

Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone accept, His Lordship. The Cross, as it enters the love life, will reveal the heart's truth.

Carlston drew a breath through pinched nostrils. "Then what about Lady Helen herself? She is a direct inheritor; the Reclaimer daughter of a Reclaimer mother. That, at least, is documented." The wave of a thin hand dismissed his lordship's words. Or, Helen thought, maybe it dismissed such a female lineage.

Revitalizing a church does not start with a list of how to's, but with a fresh vision of God and His Lordship over the church.

Every soul belongs to God and exists by His pleasure. God being who and what He is, and we being who and what we are, the only thinkable relation between us is one of full Lordship on His part and complete submission on ours. We owe Him every honor that is in our power to give Him. Our everlasting grief lies in giving Him anything less." —A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God 4

there is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is sovereign over all, does not cry 'Mine!

Porque de Él, por Él y para Él son todas las cosas. A Él sea la gloria para siempre». Romanos 11:36 (LBLA).

Mineralmaster, Ninurta

How very interesting." Imogen gave a dainty sniff." I collect that you also poured some of the brandy down his lordship's throat. Was that part of the treatment?" "Absolutely critical," Matthias murmured.

God does not exercise an alien domination of the world but a liberating lordship that sets creation free; God's rule lets family, culture, government, and church fulfill their created purposes, both distinct from and related to one another, and without any usurped heteronomy of one over the other.

Christian marriage is marked by discipline and self-denial. Christ is the Lord even of marriage.

There is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, 'Mine.'

Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.

There is perhaps no single thing that could better help us recover Jesus' lordship in our frantic, power-hungry world than to allow him to be Lord of our rest as well as our work. The challenge is disarmingly simple: one day a week, not to do anything that we know to be work.

That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow. – Philippians 2:10

If you practice inaction, nothing will be left undone: For the way to acquire lordship over society is by invariably not interfering.

We confess that Jesus is Lord. He is not simply Lord of a spiritual zone somewhere, but He is Lord of the nations.

So here is the foundational principle: Jesus is Lord and Caesar is not. Everything else in all political economy is a footnote to that profound and glorious reality. And we don't need to pray in order to make that true. It was true before any of us were born. But we should pray that God gives us the vision to see and believe that. Why should we believe that? Well, we are called believers, after all.

I don't feel safe around anything when Jesus is not the Lord of it. Calvinism without Jesus is deadly; it's fatalism, it's simply Islam. We need Jesus. When the precious doctrines [of Calvinism] are used to perpetuate gloom, severity, introspection, accusations, morbidity, slander, gnat-stringing, and more, the soul is not safe.

The focus of the Christian life should be on Christ, not on self-imposed regulations. Our experience of Christ's lordship is dependent on our moment-by-moment attention to His instruction, not on our own regimented schedule.

Lordship comes too easy, for some. And it was lordship near slew the world.

If Jesus is the revelation of the essential power and life of God, then men cannot do violence to one another for their own self-expansion within the area of his Lordship. So far as they do this, they are exercising a powerfulness that contradicts the power of God. They have turned from light to darkness.

Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world, of all living things.