Sovereign Quotes

• I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.

  Harry S. Truman

  Faith, Believe, Israel

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• The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

  William James

  Prayer, Philosophical, Worry

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• The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.

  Sun Tzu

  Country, Military, War

  Sun Tzu (2015). “The Art of War”, p.61, Xist Publishing

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• I have been asked hundreds of times in my life why God allows tragedy and suffering. I have to confess that I really do not know the answer totally, even to my own satisfaction. I have to accept, by faith, that God is sovereign, and He is a God of love and mercy and compassion in the midst of suffering.

  Billy Graham

  Compassion, Suffering, Tragedy

  Address at the Episcopal National Cathedral, Delivered 14 September, National Day of Prayer and Remembrance, Washington D.C.

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• Because God is sovereign, He is able to answer. Because He is faithful to His promises, He will answer.

  Jerry Bridges

  Faithful, Promise, Answers

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.93, NavPress

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• Nothing is a surprise to God; nothing is a setback to His plans; nothing can thwart His purposes; and nothing is beyond His control. His sovereignty is absolute. Everything that happens is uniquely ordained by God. Sovereignty is a weighty thing to ascribe to the nature and character of God. Yet if He were not sovereign, He would not be God. The Bible is clear that God is in control of everything that happens.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Character, Purpose, Surprise

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• We unjustly defraud God of his right, unless each of us lives and dies in dependence on His sovereign pleasure.

  John Calvin

  Pleasure, Dies, Dependence

  John Calvin (2007). “Letters of John Calvin”, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Christ's blood is the great sovereign remedy for sin-sick souls.

  John Owen

  Blood, Sick, Soul

  John Owen (2001). “Temptation and Sin”, p.79, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift of God. The energy and the power which was so very evident in Jesus will be exhibited in us by an act of the absolute sovereign grace of God, once we have made that complete and effective decision about sin. We have to keep letting go, and slowly, but surely, the great full life of God will invade us, penetrating every part.

  Oswald Chambers

  Letting Go, Jesus, Decision

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.224, Discovery House

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• We must settle in our hearts that no matter what, God is sovereign.

  Beth Moore

  Heart, Matter, Settling

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• The people are sovereign and the Constitution is supreme. There is no one greater than the people.

  Franco Debono

  People, Constitution, Greater

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• The concept of national sovereignty has been an immutable, indeed sacred, principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the new imperatives of global environmental cooperation. It is simply not feasible for sovereignty to be exercised unilaterally by individual nation states, however powerful. The global community must be assured of environmental security.

  Maurice Strong

  Powerful, Yield, Community

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• A year ago Guyana became politically free and independent. She assumed the untrammeled right to make her own decisions on what ought to be done or ought not to be done within her border. Since then, hers has also been the right to decide what course she would take and to state her views and opinions positively in the fora of the world. As we celebrate the first anniversary of freedom, it is our duty to take account of what we have achieved or what we have failed to do, to note where we have done well and what we ought to have done better.

  Forbes Burnham

  Freedom, Failure, Independent

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• I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind, Purpose, Tenacity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “Emerson's Complete Works”

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• The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.

  John Stuart Mill

  Independence, Mind, Society

  On Liberty ch. 1 (1859)

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• A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible. The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.

  Abraham Lincoln

  People, Majority, Principles

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.220, Library of America

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• If God is not sovereign, God is not God.

  R. C. Sproul

  Ifs

  R. C. Sproul (2011). “Now, That's a Good Question!”, p.26, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign... Secondly, a just cause... Thirdly... a rightful intention.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Peace, Powerful, War

  "Summa Theologica". Book by Thomas Aquinas (Part II-II, Question 40, Article 1, pp. 1359-1360), 1485.

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• The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Power, Long, Leviathan

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• Egypt is a sovereign nation.

  William Hague

  Egypt, Nations

  "Foreign Secretary: 'We are on the side of a stable democratic future for Egypt'". "Andrew Marr Show", www.gov.uk. February 6, 2011.

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• There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God's sovereign providence.

  R. C. Sproul

  Dust, Pieces, One Piece

  Twitter post from Aug 17, 2016

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• Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.

  Honore de Balzac

  Children, Literature, Deities

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.172, The Floating Press

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• It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in decisive battle.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Battle, Engagement, States

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• Tribal sovereignty means that. It's sovereign. You're a... you're a... you've been given sovereignty and you're viewed as a sovereign entity.

  George W. Bush

  Mean, American Indian, Funny Bush

  George W. Bush “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, George W. Bush, 2004, Book 2, July 1 to September 30, 2004”, Government Printing Office

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• The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.

  Georges Bataille

  Crush, Men, Being Free

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