Quotes about Sovereignty
No hay nada que pueda arrebatar a un hombre su libertad, salvo otros hombres.
- Ayn Rand
Redeem your mind from the hockshops of authority.
- Ayn Rand
Rule with the heart of a servant. Serve with the heart of a king.
- Bill Johnson
God does not love us because we are hard or easy to love, He loves us because He is God.
- AW Tozer
When we say "Thy will be done," do we say it with a sigh? If so, we have never realized that the character of God is holy love; nothing can ever happen outside His purposeful will.
- Oswald Chambers
we will stand amazed to see the topside of the tapestry and how God beautifully embroidered each circumstance into a pattern for our good and His glory.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
Prayer is subversive activity. It involves a more or less open act of defiance against any claim by the current regime.... [As we pray,] slowly but surely, not culture, not family, not government, not job, not even the tyrannous self can stand against the quiet power and creative influence of God's sovereignty.
- Eugene Peterson
The time and intelligence that our ancestors spent on understanding the sovereignty revealed in Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are directed by our contemporaries in affirming and validating the sovereignty of our needs, wants, and feelings.
- Eugene Peterson
The basic conviction of a Christian is that God intends good for us and that he will get his way in us. He does not treat us according to our deserts, but according to his plan. He is not a police officer on patrol, watching over the universe, ready to club us if we get out of hand or put us in jail if we get obstreperous. He is a potter working with the clay of our lives, forming and reforming until, finally, he has shaped a redeemed life, a vessel fit for a kingdom.
- Eugene Peterson
Know this well, then. Take it to heart right now: GOD is in Heaven above; GOD is on Earth below. He's the only God there is.
- Eugene Peterson
I'm in charge of all this—I run this universe!
- Eugene Peterson
I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.
- Euripides