Quotes about Sovereignty

When God is recognized for the infinitely holy being that He is, you don't stand around questioning His decisions.

When we worry, we are telling God, "You are neither trustworthy nor in control, so I need to worry and scheme as I take matters into my own hands." In this way unbelief drives worry, for it is impossible to worry when we are trusting in the provision of our sovereign God.

So rather than repent of sin and turn for mercy to a God who is altogether sovereign, holy, knowing, and unchangeable, men and women suppress what knowledge they have and refuse to seek out that additional knowledge that could be the salvation of their souls.

There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine!" If the world and everything in it belong to God and come under his direct claim over them in and through Jesus, then there can be no sphere of life that is not radically open to the rule of God. There can be no non-God area in our lives and in our culture.

The little slogan, "Let go, and let God," is not what the New Testament teaches—at least that is only part of the truth, for the act of total submission to the sovereignty of Jesus Christ is but the beginning of a new régime in your heart. No longer is the puppet king Self upon the throne, but the great King of kings and Lord of lords has stepped in to take over the government of your life.

God has not the slightest need for our proofs.

Man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.

Man must never be treated as a means to the end of the state, but always as an end within himself.

To say that God's sovereignty is limited by man's freedom is to make man sovereign.

A kingdom always includes three fundamental components: a ruler, a realm of subjects who fall under his rule, and the rules or governances.

It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.

I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.