Quotes about Sovereignty
The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy.
- George Washington
. . . we should be men first, and subjects afterward.
- Henry David Thoreau
The greatest of empires, is the empire over one's self.
- Publilius Syrus
We were not designed to be dominated.
- Myles Munroe
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
- Thomas Jefferson
The first thing that we need to say is that God is grieving, too. Uh, a lot of people try to make it sound like 'well everything that happens is God's will.' That's nonsense. God allows everything, but God does not choose everything.
- Rick Warren
The only defensible war is a war of defense.
- GK Chesterton
What we want is to become masters in our own house.
- Michael Ignatieff
God is not beholden to us at all. He doesn't owe us anything.
- John Piper
We stop on Sabbaths because God is on the throne, assuring us the world will not fall apart if we cease our activities.
- Peter Scazzero
Calvin sets the absolute sovereignty of God and the infallibility of the Bible over against the pretended sovereignty and infallibility of the pope. Fearing God, he was fearless of man. The sense of God's sovereignty fortified his followers against the tyranny of temporal sovereigns, and made them champions and promoters of civil and political liberty in France, Holland, England, and Scotland.
- Philip Schaff
The problem, however, comes within the reach of possible solution, if we distinguish between sovereignty as an inherent power, and the exercise of sovereignty. God may limit the exercise of his sovereignty to make room for the free action of his creatures. It is by his sovereign decree that man is free. Without such self-limitation he could not admonish men to repent and believe. Here, again, the Calvinistic logic must either bend or break.
- Philip Schaff