Quotes about Sovereignty
'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances, with any portion of the foreign world - as far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it.
- George Washington
The ultimate good in a liberal state is liberty.
- Michael Ignatieff
God allows in His wisdom what He could easily prevent by His power.
- Graham Cooke
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
he knew that nothing ever surprised the Creator of heaven and earth. As the circuit preacher had said a month or so ago, "God never leans over the balcony of heaven and gasps." James
- Tamera Alexander
Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.
- Will Rogers
If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else?
- James Madison
Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave.
- Walt Disney
Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
- Mortimer Adler
Since man created government to help secure and safeguard [inalienable] rights [from God], it follows that man is superior to government and should remain master over it, not the other way around.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Most Christians salute the sovereignty of God but believe in the sovereignty of man.
- RC Sproul
Man is nothing: he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God worketh in him to will and to do his good pleasure.
- George Whitefield