Reign Quotes - Page 6

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Liberty, then, is the SOVEREIGNTY OF THE INDIVIDUAL.

Where bright imagination reigns, the fine-wrought spirit feels acuter pains.

Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reigns.

The educated ones leave, the ones with the potential to right the wrongs. They leave the weak behind. The tyrants continue to reign because the weak cannot resist. Do you not see that it is a cycle? Who will break that cycle?

God's guidance will require patience on our part. His leading is not usually a direct assurance, a revelation, but His sovereign controlling of the circumstances of our lives, with the Word of God as our rule. It is therefore, inevitable that the unfolding of His purposes will take time - sometimes a very long time.

There are no term limits on His reign. He has always been King and He always will be King. There is no death that threatens the perpetuity of His sovereign authority. There is no usurping of power by a lesser rival to His throne. There are no coups, no revolutions (at least, none that succeed). There is no threat of impeachment. He is a King who rules eternally.

My starting point was the search for my identity in foreign places, in places where I am estranged from myself.

God’s sovereign will is not at the whim and mercy of our person and individual responses to it.

To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign.

I'll always be a foreigner.

Human fallibility recognised, Gods sovereignty trusted; these are also the only stable foundations for human beings in society.

In the midst of the disguises and artifices that reign among men, it is only attention and vigilance that can save us from surprises.

One difficulty follows another very fast - but God reigns, not chance.

The righteousness of God's Kingdom is the product of God's reign in the human heart. God must reign in our lives now if we are to enter the Kingdom tomorrow.

We are made for action, and activity is the sovereign remedy for all physical ills.

Heroes have gone out; quacks have come in; the reign of quacks has not ended with the nineteenth century. The sceptre is held with a firmer grasp; the empire has a wider boundary. We are all the slaves of quackery in one shape or another. Indeed, one portion of our being is always playing the successful quack to the other.

If you do not know his language, you will never understand a foreigner's silence.

The best ambassador is a warship.

That foreign trade should be fair rather than free.

The presence of hope in the invincible sovereignty of God drives out fear.

Any time someone says "that's it, I'm leaving" I ask them whether they'd prefer to live under US domestic policy, or US foreign policy. As bad as things get inside an empire, they're usually worse in the protectorates.

There are principles which govern our life-they are the principles of Life. If our life is lived according to these principles all is well, and harmony reigns in place of vexation and struggle.

Sometimes I joke that I'm an Elizabethan who's had the misfortune to be alive during the reign of the wrong Elizabeth.

If you can explain what is happening in a church, apart from the sovereign act of God, it is not revival.