Top 25 Sovereign Quotes of 166 - Page 3

As children of a sovereign God, we are never victims of our circumstances.

As children of a sovereign God, we are never victims of our circumstances.

Children, Sovereign, Victim

Charles Stanley (2013). “NASB, The Charles F. Stanley Life Principles Bible, eBook”, p.1317, Thomas Nelson Inc

We can rest confident in the fact that nothing will happen to us in this world apart from the gracious will of a sovereign God. Nothing.

David Platt

Encouraging, World, Sovereign

David Platt (2010). “Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream”, p.163, Multnomah

Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.

Carl Schmitt

Sovereign, Exception

Carl Schmitt (2010). “Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty”, p.44, University of Chicago Press

Peace comes in situations completely surrendered to the sovereign authority of Christ.

Beth Moore

Sovereign, Christ, Authority

Beth Moore (2007). “Breaking Free: Discover the Victory of Total Surrender”, p.42, B&H Publishing Group

I believe the sovereign God of the universe justifies us freely, and then we are called to run with him in sanctification.

Matt Chandler

Running, Believe, Sovereign

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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.

Jerry Bridges

His Love, Sovereignty, Love Always

Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.234, NavPress

Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.

Woodrow Wilson

People, Presidential, Sovereignty

Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.124, The Minerva Group, Inc.

Egypt is a sovereign nation.

William Hague

Egypt, Sovereign, Nations

"Foreign Secretary: 'We are on the side of a stable democratic future for Egypt'". "Andrew Marr Show", www.gov.uk. February 6, 2011.

The realization of God's presence is the one sovereign remedy against temptation.

Francois Fenelon

Temptation, Realization, Sovereign

When I forget my sovereign, may my God forget me.

Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow

Loyalty, May, Sovereign

27 "Parliamentary History", 680; Annual Register, 1789.

I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mind, Purpose, Sovereign

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “Emerson's Complete Works”

Anarchy, the absence of a master, of a sovereign.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Anarchy, Sovereign, Absence

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (2011). “Property is Theft!: A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology”, p.134, AK Press

Liberty, then, is the SOVEREIGNTY OF THE INDIVIDUAL.

Josiah Warren

Liberty, Individual, Sovereignty

"Equitable commerce: a new development of principles as substitutes for laws and governments, for the harmonious adjustment and regulation of the pecuniary, intellectual, and moral intercourse of mankind, proposed as elements of new society".

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.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

Long, Purpose, Sovereign

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

R. C. Sproul

Sovereign, Mercy, Individual

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

Justin Welby

Foundation, Sovereignty, Fallibility

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

Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

War, Prussia, Sovereign

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

John Piper

Invincible, Sovereignty, Sovereignty Of God

John Piper (2013). “This Momentary Marriage”, p.64, SPCK

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

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Church, Sovereign, Revival

There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.

Denis Diderot

War, People, Sovereign

Denis Diderot, John Hope Mason, Robert Wokler (1992). “Diderot: Political Writings”, p.81, Cambridge University Press

The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

Voltaire

Law, Tyrants, Sovereign

Voltaire (2016). “Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression”, p.2014, e-artnow