Quotes About Sovereignty

Absolute sovereignty is what I love to ascribe to God. But my first conviction was not so.

now I saw it was so far from any goodness in me to own myself spiritually dead and destitute of all goodness that, on the contrary, my mouth would be forever stopped by it; and it looked as dreadful to me to see myself and the relation I stood in to God—I a sinner and criminal, and He a great Judge and Sovereign—as it would be to a poor trembling creature to venture off some high precipice.

after all, a great power is a great power, it doesn't become one by chance, and doesn't remain one by chance, either.

Neither arms nor armor can deliver Corenwald—only the arm of the One God.

God] gave us only over beast, fish, fowl, Dominion absolute; that right we hold By his donation; but man over men He made not lord; such title to himself Reserving, human left from human free.

He is announcing to the most powerful ruler of the ancient world that these people may be your slaves but they are My children. The story of the exodus is as much political as theological. Theologically, the plagues showed that the Creator of nature is supreme over the forces of nature. Politically it declared that over every human power stands the sovereignty of God, defender and guarantor of the rights of humankind.

The concept of equality we find in the Torah specifically and Judaism generally is not an equality of wealth: Judaism is not communism. Nor is it an equality of power: Judaism is not anarchy. It is fundamentally an equality of dignity. We are all equal citizens in the nation whose sovereign is God.

Why be a king,when you can be a god?

Patriotism is a menace to liberty.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.

The greatest fruit of self-sufficiency is freedom.

Article IV, Section 3 of the United States Constitution requires the consent of a state before a new state can be formed from its territory.

It's only logical that if God always answered our prayers as we wanted him to, those answers to our prayers could hardly be considered miraculous. They would only be part of a predictable system that we could manipulate, if only we knew how. It really makes God not God, but a "God" or a god whom we are ultimately able to control through our efforts, whether via prayer or via our "moral" actions designed to elicit a favorable response.

that country where they wouldn't be told what to think or how to live or even whether or how to worship.

There was only one reality, and Christ was Lord over all of it, or none.

Who says: 'Here reigns freedom' is lying, because freedom doesn't reign." Zu sagen "Hier herrscht Freiheit" ist immer ein Irrtum oder auch eine Lüge: Freiheit herrscht nicht.

Who rules here?' I asked. They said: 'The People naturally.' I said: 'Naturally the people but who really rules?

The true rightist is not a man who wants to go back to this or that institution for the sake of a return; he wants first to find out what is eternally true, eternally valid, and then either to restore or reinstall it, regardless of whether it seems obsolete, whether it is ancient, contemporary, or even without precedent, brand new, "ultramodern." Old truths can be rediscovered, entirely new ones found. The Man of the Right does not have a time-bound, but a sovereign mind.

great power.

DO NOT HUNT OR TRESPASS ON ANOTHER CLAN'S TERRITORY.

We are apt to believe in Providence so long as we have our own way; but if things go awry, then we think, if there is a God, he is in heaven, and not on earth.

We have been told to ask about everything: Will it leave us free?