Sovereign Quotes - Page 4

Sovereignty must be redefined if states are to cope with globalisation.

Take a firm grasp on God’s sovereignty and trust His love even when you don’t understand His purpose.

I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.

In Reformed theology, if God is not sovereign over the entire created order, then he is not sovereign at all. The term sovereignty too easily becomes a chimera. If God is not sovereign, then he is not God.

Our work is not to save souls, but to disciple them. Salvation and sanctification are the work of God's sovereign grace, and our work as His disciples is to disciple others' lives until they are totally yielded to God. One life totally devoted to God is of more value to Him than one hundred lives which have been simply awakened by His Spirit. As workers for God, we must reproduce our own kind spiritually, and those lives will be God's testimony to us as His workers. God brings us up to a standard of life through His grace, and we are responsible for reproducing that same standard in others.

A human being is like a television set with millions of channels.... We cannot let just one channel dominate us. We have the seed of everything in us, and we have to recover our own sovereignty.

Gaza will become part of sovereign Israel and will be populated by Jews. This will also serve to ease the housing crisis in Israel

The sovereign must have full knowledge of the activities of the five sorts of agents. This knowledge must come from the double agents, and therefore it is mandatory that they be treated with the utmost liberality.

Any conception of a god that is less than sovereign is an idol and no god at all.

If there is one maverick molecule in all the universe, then God is not sovereign. And if God is not sovereign, He is not God.

It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent to jurisdiction of the sovereign.

Sovereignty no longer resides in the territory itself, but in the control of the territory. And localisation is an inherent part of that territorial control.

The Thirteen States are Thirteen Sovereign bodies.

We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible.

I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will become a sovereign.

Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.

In the wounds our sufferings plough immortal love sows sovereign seed.

From the beginning, I said that Israel, one, has a right to defend herself, but Israel ought to be cautious about how she defends herself. Israel's a democratically elected government. They make decisions on their own sovereignty. It's their decision-making that is what leads to the tactics they chose.

[It] is the interest as well as duty of a sovereign to maintain the authority of the laws.

[Peace] cannot be honorable or secure, if the sovereign betrays a pusillanimous aversion to war.

When wild the head-wind beat, Thy sovereign Will commanding Bring them who dare to fly To a safe landing.

Better a sovereign in squalor than a slave in splendor.

I have always thought that Israel, as an independent and sovereign nation, had a right to defend itself.

God is absolutely sovereign, but his sovereignty never mitigates human responsibility.

No state is free from militarism, which is inherent in the very concept of the sovereign state. There are merely differences of degree in the militarism of states.