Sovereign Quotes - Page 14

• God involves us in his missions not because He needs us, but because He loves us. And in His mercy He has invited us to be involved in His sovereign design for the spread of the gospel to the ends of the earth.

  David Platt

  Design, Needs, Earth

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• Jesus is not some puny religious teacher begging for an invitation from anyone. He is the all-sovereign Lord who deserves submission from everyone.

  David Platt

  Teacher, Religious, Jesus

  David Platt (2013). “Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live.”, p.38, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• We can rest confident in the fact that nothing will happen to us in this world apart from the gracious will of a sovereign God. Nothing.

  David Platt

  Encouraging, World, Facts

  David Platt (2010). “Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream”, p.163, Multnomah

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• Order is manifestly maintained in the universe... governed by the sovereign will of God.

  James Prescott Joule

  Order, Gods Will, Universe

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• All law is situational law. The sovereign produces and guarantees the situation in its totality. He has the monopoly over this last decision.

  Carl Schmitt

  Law, Decision, Guarantees

  Carl Schmitt (2010). “Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty”, p.13, University of Chicago Press

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• Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign

  Edward Coke

  Fellows

  Speech in House of Commons, 17 May 1628

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• Every call to worship is a call into the Real World.... I encounter such constant and widespread lying about reality each day and meet with such skilled and systematic distortion of the truth that I'm always in danger of losing my grip on reality. The reality, of course, is that God is sovereign and Christ is savior. The reality is that prayer is my mother tongue and the eucharist my basic food. The reality is that baptism, not Myers-Briggs, defines who I am.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Mother, Prayer, Real

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• If there is one maverick molecule in all the universe, then God is not sovereign. And if God is not sovereign, He is not God.

  R. C. Sproul

  Molecules, Maverick, Ifs

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• God either rules as sovereign in interpretation over *all* areas of life or none.

  Greg L. Bahnsen

  Interpretation, Areas

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• I would sacrifice peace for a sovereign Bosnia-Herzegovina ... but for that peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina I would not sacrifice sovereignty.

  Alija Izetbegovic

  Sacrifice, Bosnia, Sovereignty

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• God doth not govern the world only by his will as an absolute monarch, but by his wisdom and goodness as a tender father. It is not his greatest pleasure to show his sovereign power, or his inconceivable wisdom, but his immense goodness, to which he makes the other attributes subservient.

  Stephen Charnock

  God, Father, World

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• Truth-telling to Congress and the public is not disloyal in America: it is an expression of the higher loyalty officials owe to the Constitution, the rule of law, and the sovereign public. It is a courageous, patriotic, and effective way to serve our country. The time to speak out is now.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  Loyalty, Country, Time

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• God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm. Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs, And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head. Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.

  William Cowper

  Courage, Failure, Moving

  Olney Hymns "Light Shining Out of Darkness" l. 1 (1779)

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• The gospel reveals the glory of God. According to God's Word, he is the sovereign Creator of all things.

  David Platt

  Glory, Radical, Creator

  David Platt (2010). “Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream”, p.32, Multnomah

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• Most redoubted lord and right sovereign cousin, may the Almighty Lord have you in his keeping.

  Owain Glyndwr

  Cousin, May, Lord

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• Two days ahead of schedule, the world witnessed the arrival of a free and sovereign Iraq.

  Dick Cheney

  War, Two, Iraq

  "U.S. Preparing to Handover Former Iraqi Dictator Saddam Hussein". CNN live with Kyra Phillips, edition.cnn.com. June 28, 2004.

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• What constitutes a state? . . . . . . . Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain. . . . . . . . And sovereign law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.

  William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell

  Men, Rights, Law

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• Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.

  Alvin Toffler

  Fiction, Shock, Thrive

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• The democratic concept of man is false, because it is Christian. The democratic concept holds that . . . each man is a sovereign being. This is the illusion, dream, and postulate of Christianity.

  Karl Marx

  Christian, Dream, Men

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• A Call for Revolution, 1993 Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left - which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected by the modern right - which preaches enterprise but practices protectionism. The libertarian faith in the mind of man is rejected by religionists who have faith only in the sins of man. . . . The libertarian insistence that each man is a sovereign land of liberty, with his primary allegiance to himself, is rejected by patriots who sing of freedom but also shout of banners and boundaries.

  Karl Hess

  Faith, Men, Land

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• Money power cannot be separated from democratic power without miscarriage and ensuing frustration - political and economic. Democracy implies the sovereignty of man; and, since man cannot be sovereign without the money power, there can not be democracy under the political money system.

  E.C. Riegel

  Miscarriage, Frustration, Power

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• Listen to the sermon preached to you by the flowers, the trees, the shrubs, the sky, and the whole world. Notice how they preach to you a sermon full of love, of praise of God, and how they invite you to glorify the sublimity of that sovereign Artist who has given them being.

  Paul of the Cross

  Flower, Artist, Sky

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• The key to the missionary's work is the authority of Jesus Christ, not the needs of the lost. We are inclined to look on our Lord as one who assists us in our endeavors for God. Yet our Lord places Himself as the absolute sovereign and supreme Lord over His disciples. He does not say that the lost will never be saved if we don't go- He simply says, "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations...."

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Keys, Missionary

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.594, Discovery House

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• The Saviour Himself is the door of the sheepfold: 'I am the door of the sheep.' Into this fold of Jesus Christ, no man may enter unless he be led by the Sovereign Pontiff; and only if they be united to him can men be saved, for the Roman Pontiff is the Vicar of Christ and His personal representative on earth.

  Pope John XXII

  Jesus, Men, Doors

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• Worry is momentary atheism crying out for correction by trust in a good, sovereign God. Suffering breaks self-reliance.

  Randy Alcorn

  Self, Worry, Suffering

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