Quotes about Sovereignty
the thoughts of the Lord are not our thoughts, His ways are not our ways.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
What I have given, I can take away and restore when it pleases Me. What I give remains Mine, and thus when I take it away I take nothing that is yours, for every good gift and every perfect gift is Mine.
- Thomas a Kempis
The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.
- St. Basil
Put an end to talk on dividing Jerusalem. There can be no negotiations about Jerusalem.
- Eli Yishai
The fact is, it's good to be free. No one ever marches against freedom, chanting, "Down with liberty! Back to bondage! I want to do only what the government tells me to do!
- Norman Geisler
Yes, God is the author of everything, including evil, in the sense that He permits it, but not in the sense that He produces it. Evil happens in His permissive will, but He does not promote evil in His perfect will.
- Norman Geisler
The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble.
- Andrew Jackson
The United States of America has been great because it has been free.
- Ezra Taft Benson
It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
- Thomas Jefferson
Small islands, not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.
- Thomas Paine