Quotes About Sovereignty

The more finely we divided and measured time, first into hours, then minutes and seconds, the less we seemed to have of it and the more the clock encroached upon and usurped sovereignty over life, until today we are all "on the clock.

To be truly rich is to have sovereignty over our own time.

The main thing I believe in is freedom.

28And we know that cGod causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.

Though this year ends, He remains sovereign over all that exists. Allow this truth to comfort you as you face the unknowns ahead. No problem is too overwhelming for your heavenly Father. He is your perfect Leader, who guides you wisely to triumph no matter what happens. And His love for you never fails.

The God who controls all things, who is present in your life, whether you acknowledge Him or not, is the God of Peace.

But not one shred of scriptural evidence shows that God will say yes to all of our prayers just because we're living right. God is sovereign. He has the right to say no according to His infinite wisdom, regardless of our goodness.

Taiwan was part of China.

Give us liberty or give us death!

A family on the throne is an interesting idea," Walter Bagehot wrote in 1867. "It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life." He warned, however, against too much exposure of the personal monarchy: "If you begin to poke about it, you cannot reverence it.… Its mystery is its life. We must not let in daylight upon magic.

God either rules as sovereign in interpretation over *all* areas of life or none.

Christ does not settle for a part-time or restricted reign as King. He demands obedience in all things from us, and His aim is to subdue all resistance - of any nature (internal or external) - to His rule.

And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, nor shall the kingdom be left to another people. It shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand forever.  (Daniel 2:44)

Hail, hail Freedonia, land of the free!

Look, the center right coalition in American politics today is best understood as a coalition of groups and individuals that on the issue that brings them to politics what they want from the government is to be left alone.

If thou be more than hate or atmosphere Step forth in splendor, mortify our wolves. Or we assume a sovereignty ourselves.

O'Gorman mostró ahí que el triunfo de la república contra el monarquismo durante el siglo XIX no fue la fácil victoria nativa sobre una pasión foránea y caprichosa. Por el contrario: durante trescientos años de vida colonial, la única legitimidad política que conoció el reino de la Nueva España, matriz de la nación mexicana, fue la legitimidad monárquica.

Some day we shall have to choose between England and Europe.

Davis and Stephens hewed to the same line: Southern states seceded not to protect slavery but to vindicate state sovereignty.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

I'm a patriot with every fiber of my being. A patriot does what is best for his country, not what is best for its leader.

Exercise the right to think for yourself

The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others.

North Korea not only wants unification, it absolutely has to have unification. That's really the only way this state can feel secure.