Quotes about Sovereignty

Whenever God is pleased to make way for his providence, he even in external matters so turns and bends the wills of men, that whatever the freedom of their choice may be, it is still subject to the disposal of God.

But if God has set his seat in the sanctuary of the heavens in order to rule the universe, it follows that he by no means ignores earthly affairs, but controls them with the highest reason and wisdom.

Since men do not create their own life but obtain life precariously from another, it follows that God dwells in them.

Whence follows the plain conclusion, that if all men were elected, no man would perish.

God does not defer his help any longer than fits his purpose. Unlike

We are taught that the salvation of all the elect is as certain as that God's power is invincible. Besides

Each year, month, and day is governed by a new, a special, providence of God

The decree is dreadful indeed, I confess.

For even if the Word in his immeasurable essence united with the nature with the nature of man into one person, we do not imagine that he was confined therein. Here is something marvelous: the Son of God descended from heaven in such a way that, without leaving heaven, he willed to be borne in the virgin's womb, to go about earth, and to hang upon the cross; yet he continuously filled the world even as he had done from the beginning.

As all future events are uncertain to us, so we hold them in suspense, as if they might incline to one side or the other. Yet in our hearts it nonetheless remains fixed that nothing will take place that the Lord has not previously foreseen.

The reason for God's keeping some for himself and rejecting others is to be sought nowhere but in God himself.

Therefore, God's foreknowledge cannot be the reason of our election, because when God [looks into the future and] surveys all mankind, he will find them all, from the first to the last, under the same curse.