Quotes About Sovereignty

Serbs can only leave Kosovo.

The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world.

the truth is that God is so big that nothing that happens in our lives is outside the circle of who he is or beyond the realm of his great love for us.

It is not difficult to show that a theory of democratic control can be developed which is free of the paradox of sovereignty. The theory I have in mind is one which does not proceed, as it were, from a doctrine of the intrinsic goodness or righteousness of a majority rule, but rather from the baseness of tyranny; or more precisely, it rests upon the decision, or upon the adoption of the proposal, to avoid and to resist tyranny." Karl Popper, 'The Open Society and Its Enemies', Chapter 7.

Do not equate nationalism with patriotism... Nationalism is the first step on the road to Fascism.

There was really no need for a woman to have a man in her life in order to be happy, Cecily assured herself. In fact, a man could be quite bothersome, especially when he refused to explain the reason for his disturbing behavior. If she ever returned to this life, she had often told herself, it would be as a man. Men, it seemed, were blithely unconcerned with the feelings of others.

Nations are as equal as so many madmen or drunkards.

Everything is really said in an unobtrusive phrase, in Christ ...Faith is not added as a second, independent ingredient which makes its own contribution to justification in Christ... faith does nothing but accept, or come to rest in the sovereignty of His benefit ... we are not acceptable to God because of the worthiness of our faith. Grace is exclusively and totally God's.

Question 11 What are God's works of providence? Answer

Umilirea este cel mai teribil atentat la adresa libert??ii.

A real man has no need of governments, of laws, of moral or ethical codes, to say nothing of battleships, police clubs, high-powered bombers and such things."76

God's sovereignty and man's responsibility are asserted side by side in Scripture (Acts 2:23; 4:27–28). Whether or not we can put them together in our minds, we must accept both truths.

Gary and Betsy Ricucci point out, "Our Lord has sovereignly ordained that our refining process take place as we go through difficulties, not around them. The Bible is filled with examples of those who overcame as they passed through the desert, the Red Sea, the fiery furnace and ultimately the cross. God doesn't protect Christians from their problems—he helps them walk victoriously through their problems."1

Your heavenly Father-in-Law never takes his eyes off his beloved child. He hears every word uttered in anger toward his children. He sees every act of violence; he witnesses every act of denial, manipulation, and control. Never imagine that he witnesses such assaults with a dispassionate apathy; on the contrary, he feels each slight as though you were persecuting Christ himself.

No man resists me: literally no one.

Job 38:13 Take hold of the skirts of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it. Job 38:18 Have you comprehended the expanse of the earth? Psa. 136:6 To him who spreads out the earth above the waters. Isa. 44:24 "I am the LORD, who spread out the earth by myself.

Nobody was ready for it, and nobody could quite understand it now that it was happening. But somehow it was being determined that democracy henceforth, perhaps for some centuries to come, would operate through a new instrument. Sovereignty of the states was dying, North as well as South, and going with it was the ancient belief that the government which governs least is the government which governs best.

But then is no one at home any longer?" No, as a matter of fact. Neither state sovereignty nor inviolable borders can take the place of politics any longer.

We also use the name of Jesus in our prayers to acknowledge what he is doing now. Not only does Christ give us his holy status

His mercy, not our merits, make[s] us his.

Belief in God's sovereignty coupled with his promises to reward those who diligently seek him (Heb. 11:6) provides even more powerful incentive to pray.

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.

los pactos que no descansan en la espada no son más que palabras [...]" (Hobbes, Leviatán. Cap XVII).

A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.