Quotes about Sovereignty

We readily acknowledge that it is very humbling to the proud heart of the creature to behold all mankind in the hand of God as the clay in the potter's hand, yet this is precisely how the Scriptures of truth represent the case.

It is impossible to bring the Almighty under obligations to the creature; God gains nothing from us.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly troubles.

We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world - but we do so with the understanding that it is the right of all nations to put their own interests first.

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

Many of us think in terms in parental determinism: 'If I push all the right buttons my kids are going to turn out OK.' I want to instill in myself and my people a wonderful dose, not of carelessness, but of God's sovereignty. He knows the hairs on your kids' heads.

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

Arbitrary governing hath no alliance with God.

Be not afraid for little grace. Christ soweth His living seed, and He will not lose His seed; if He have the guiding of my stock and state35 it shall not miscarry. Our spilt works, losses, deadness, coldness, wretchedness, are the ground which the good Husbandman laboureth.

My shallow and ebb thoughts are not the compass Christ saileth by. I leave His ways to Himself, for they are far, far above me . . . There are windings and to's and fro's in His ways, which blind bodies like us cannot see.

the import of the book was that even the king must obey the law, because the king is also under the law.