Quotes about Sovereignty

Therefore Lord God, you are more truly omnipotent, because you have no power through impotence and nothing can be against you.

What is called a republic, is not any particular form of government ... it is naturally opposed to the word monarchy, which means arbitrary power.

A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.

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 power under the Constitution will always be in the people.

Far different is the power of our sovereignty. It can interfere with no one's faith, prescribe forms of worship for no one's observance, inflict no punishment but after well-ascertained guilt, the result of investigation under rules prescribed by the Constitution itself.

God is not going to negotiate His holiness... in order to accommodate us.

A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly troubles.

To know that nothing happens in God's world apart from God's will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints.

God does not rule by the consent of His subjects but by His sovereign authority. His reign extends over me whether I vote for Him or not.

When you go through a trial, the sovereignty of God is the pillow upon which you lay your head.

If you are not royalty, He is not King.