Quotes about Sovereignty

Every time the government grows we lose more of who we are.

I am a man, and I will be treated as such. I answer to only one king and His kingdom will come, His will be done. We have chosen sides and we choose God. America as a nation must do the same, as well.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

Men treat God's sovereignty as a theme for controversy, but in Scripture it is matter for worship.

. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.

It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.

I do not believe there ever was a man who was his own master, but that every man has a master of some kind or other.

There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men.

There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves.

But this isn't about sports competition. It's about the rejection of what God determines for a person at conception. Put another way, these are creatures saying to the Creator that their impossible and diabolical choices are valid and that God's sovereignty is not. Such a person implies that God made a mistake, that they are angry with Him for that mistake, and that they will

Examine then, and see if He be not the dispenser of kingdoms, who is Lord at once of the world which is ruled, and of man himself who rules; if He have not ordained the changes of dynasties, with their appointed seasons, who was before all time, and made the world a body of times; if the rise and the fall of states are not the work of Him, under whose sovereignty the human race once existed without states at all.

In one sense there will be something difficult even for God — namely, that which He has not done — not because He could not, but because He would not, do it. For with God, to be willing is to be able, and to be unwilling is to be unable; all that He has willed, however, He has both been able to accomplish, and has displayed His ability.