Quotes About Sovereignty

He only who gave life has a power over it.

Life is about recapturing lost freedoms.

Local self-government…is the life-blood of liberty.

Life is not fair; God is.

Of all the groups that sometimes claim to own your life, family is the hardest to defend your individual sovereignty from.

My life is not a game that I play to entertain you.

Human beings crave freedom at their core.

To those new States whom we welcome to the ranks of the free, we pledge our word that one form of colonial control shall not have passed away merely to be replaced by a far more iron tyranny

We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves that is our only commitment to others.

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable.

I am the King, after all.

For our lives are in the Lord's hands; and they can do nothing unto us before God suffer them. Therefore give all thanks to God.

Human schemes can never carry out the plans of God.

We must also remember some of the key lessons of Scripture. In our weakness he is strong. He can use suffering to strengthen our character. He can use evil to accomplish good (precisely the nature of the discussion in the book of Habakkuk). God's sovereignty is demonstrated in that whatever personal or nonpersonal agents do, God takes it and turns it to his purpose.

Jesus will rule planet earth with a rod of iron, and of His kingdom there shall be no end (Isaiah 9:7; Luke 1:33).

The aim of states is to be the biggest and baddest dude on the block because if you're the biggest and baddest dude on the block, then it is highly unlikely that any other state will challenge you simply because you're so powerful.

In the postmillennial framework the key to the church's hope is faith in the sovereignty of God and the power of the Spirit, not in world conditions as such.

For to bear all naked truths,And to envisage circumstance, all calm,That is the top of sovereignty.

Jesus came for us, but that doesn't mean he came to please us. Jesus came for us, but he does not answer to us. Jesus came for us, but he will not subject himself to our agenda . . .

The Bible clearly teaches God's sovereignty and human responsibility. The great Charles H. Spurgeon of London was asked to reconcile these two truths. He answered, "I wouldn't try. I never reconcile friends.

Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.