Quotes about Sovereignty
Oh, Lord God of Israel, I don't understand these things. Is it wrong to want to belong to you? My soul longs for you. Help me to be obedient, to be a proper wife to Joseph, for you are sovereign and must have chosen this man for me. Make me a woman after your own heart. Create in me a clean heart, and renew a right spirit within me.
— Francine Rivers
I must rule with eye and claw — as the hawk among lesser birds. - Duke Leto Atreides
— Frank Herbert
God gives life and he takes life. Everybody who dies, dies because God wills that they die.
— John Piper
God has levels of willing and delighting. He wills and delights in things in different ways so that approval and disapproval can coexist without being contradictory, without canceling each other out. I am making the case here for infinite complexity.
— John Piper
God promised to make you free. He never promised to make you independent.
— Madeleine L'Engle
As truly as God by His power once created, so truly by that same power must God every moment maintain.
— Andrew Murray
You have rights antecedent to all earthly governments; rights that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; right derived from the Great Legislator of the Universe
— John Adams
The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice
— John Adams
The supreme and only Judge of the universe stands before the tribunal of an earthly judge.
— John Calvin
Christ, on the other hand, declares that every single one of God's creatures is under his hand and care, and that nothing happens by chance.
— John Calvin
Since he has so chosen us, we belong to him, more especially because he has bought us by the blood of his Son.
— John Calvin
This being admitted, it is certain that not a drop of rain falls without the express command of God.
— John Calvin