Quotes About Sovereignty

Is it not a miracle that where Jesus has really become Lord over people, peace reigns?

God has done more than I could ask or even imagine on more occasions than I could ever recount. His ways are higher than my ways. My ideas simply cannot compete with his.

one-quarter of the world's land surface changed hands between 1876 and 1915,

For it was only via the idea of God that we were able to develop all our ideas about a unified self, reason, a unified law-governed cosmos, sovereignty, property, supervision (Providence) and management, long-term purposes and action to attain them and so on. God taught us everything, so that we are eternally grateful to God even as we now leave him behind.

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.

One's right to life, liberty, and property depends on the outcome of no election.

No one can be free unless he is independent.

Freedom is control in your own life.

If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little things. It is we, of course, to whom things look 'little' or 'big'.

I think God runs the show. Completely. Life proves it every day: He runs the show.

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

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

Only God truly creates, for only God is unconstrained by things external to himself.

As it has always been, so shall it ever be. The King is on his throne and is in control.

God in His love always wills what is best for us. In His wisdom He always knows what is best, and in His sovereignty He has the power to bring it about.

No one can act outside of God's sovereign will or against it. Centuries ago, Augustine said, "Nothing, therefore, happens unless the Omnipotent wills it to happen: he either permits it to happen, or he brings it about himself."5

And the God who ruled absolutely in the life and fortunes of the most powerful monarch of that time still rules in the fortunes and destinies of governments today. No government or dictator is so powerful as to be beyond the sway of His sovereign rule over all the nations of the earth. GOD

The sovereignty of God is often questioned because man does not understand what God is doing. Because He does not act as we think He should, we conclude He cannot act as we think He would. GOD

Nothing is so small or trivial as to escape the attention of God's sovereign control; nothing is so great as to be beyond His power to control it.

The knowledge of His sovereignty is meant to be an encouragement to pray, not an excuse to lapse into a sort of pious fatalism.

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.

The debate between politicians over the size of our nuclear arsenal and the number of aircraft carriers and submarines our navy should have is, in a sense, a futile debate. Both sides are ultimately trusting in military muscle; they only differ in how much is necessary. The Christian, however, must trust in God, not military might of any size.