Sovereign Quotes

They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due

The sovereign power of all civil authority is founded in the consent of the people.

Grace is free sovereign favor to the ill-deserving.

Nothing is a surprise to God; nothing is a setback to His plans; nothing can thwart His purposes; and nothing is beyond His control. His sovereignty is absolute. Everything that happens is uniquely ordained by God. Sovereignty is a weighty thing to ascribe to the nature and character of God. Yet if He were not sovereign, He would not be God. The Bible is clear that God is in control of everything that happens.

Israel will not transfer Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza District to any foreign sovereign authority, [because] of the historic right of our nation to this land, [and] the needs of our national security, which demand a capability to defend our State and the lives of our citizens.

Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.

There can be no more intimate and elemental part of the individual than his or her own consciousness. At the deepest level, our consciousness is what we are - to the extent that if we are not sovereign over our own consciousness then we cannot in any meaningful sense be sovereign over anything else either.

The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.

A prince, the moment he is crown'd, Inherits every virtue sound, As emblems of the sovereign power, Like other baubles in the Tower: Is generous, valiant, just, and wise, And so continues till he dies.

The anarchist, as the born foe of authority, will be destroyed by it after damaging it more or less. The anarch, on the other hand, has appropriated authority; he is sovereign. He therefore behaves as a neutral power vis-à-vis state and society. He may like, dislike, or be indifferent to whatever occurs in them. That is what determines his conduct; he invests no emotional values.

There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God's sovereign providence.

Whether you can see it or not - and often we cannot - everything is being used of God for your good as well as the good of othersThis knowledge is by faith. It is not always by sight. But it is nevertheless certain, because it is based on the character of God, who reveals himself to us as both sovereign and benevolentWe are not to be anxious about the unknown future or to fret about it. We are to live in a moment-by-moment dependence upon God.

It is in those times of hopeless chaos when the sovereign hand of God is most likely to be seen.

While there are still imperialist aggressors, the state that has no defense power of its own to protect its sovereignty against the internal and external enemies is, in fact, not a fully independent and sovereign state.

The Government made by a number of Sovereign States.

Individualism regards man-every man-as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being.

If you want to be sovereign, act sovereign.

Order is manifestly maintained in the universe... governed by the sovereign will of God.

There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must not be attacked, towns which must not be besieged, positions which must not be contested, commands of the sovereign which must not be obeyed.

Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others.

People ask me, 'Why pray if God is sovereign?' I respond, 'Why pray if He isn't?

We must settle in our hearts that no matter what, God is sovereign.

Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.

Hand in hand with nationalist economic isolationism, militarism struggles to maintain the sovereign state against the forward march of internationalism.

Election is an act of God before creation in which He chooses some people to be saved, not on account of any foreseen merit in them, but only because of His sovereign good pleasure.

It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in decisive battle.

Each state enjoys sovereign power.

Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness; it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of unreason. It can neither limit nor transcribe, nor most certainly explain, what is essential in this enterprise.

I would sacrifice peace for a sovereign Bosnia-Herzegovina ... but for that peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina I would not sacrifice sovereignty.

Bitterness arises in our hearts when we do not trust in the sovereign rule of God in our lives

One can put some trust in the gratitude of a sovereign, and also in that of his family; under certain conditions, one can even rely upon it; but one can never expect anything from the gratitude of a nation.

If God is not sovereign, God is not God.

Earlier ages fortified themselves behind the sovereign state, behind protectionism and militarism.

The true sovereign is not the American president nor the English king, but the Lord of the Second Advent.

Grace, then, is grace,--that is to say, it is sovereign, it is free, it is sure, it is unconditional, and it is everlasting.

Death is the only sovereign whom no partiality can warp, and no price corrupt.

God either rules as sovereign in interpretation over *all* areas of life or none.

Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.

Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour's reading would not dissipate.

We unjustly defraud God of his right, unless each of us lives and dies in dependence on His sovereign pleasure.

We have forgotten that our sovereign duty is to leave the world in a better condition than when we each entered it

As children of a sovereign God, we are never victims of our circumstances.

We can rest confident in the fact that nothing will happen to us in this world apart from the gracious will of a sovereign God. Nothing.

The Lord is the General, and he has the right . . . the sovereign right . . . to put us where he wants in the battle.

Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.

I believe the sovereign God of the universe justifies us freely, and then we are called to run with him in sanctification.

Peace comes in situations completely surrendered to the sovereign authority of Christ.

When I forget my sovereign, may my God forget me.

Egypt is a sovereign nation.

I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose.