Quotes about Sovereignty

God has levels of willing and delighting. He wills and delights in things in different ways so that approval and disapproval can coexist without being contradictory, without canceling each other out. I am making the case here for infinite complexity.

God promised to make you free. He never promised to make you independent.

As truly as God by His power once created, so truly by that same power must God every moment maintain.

You have rights antecedent to all earthly governments; rights that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; right derived from the Great Legislator of the Universe

The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice

The supreme and only Judge of the universe stands before the tribunal of an earthly judge.

Christ, on the other hand, declares that every single one of God's creatures is under his hand and care, and that nothing happens by chance.

Since he has so chosen us, we belong to him, more especially because he has bought us by the blood of his Son.

This being admitted, it is certain that not a drop of rain falls without the express command of God.

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.