Sovereign Quotes - Page 14

• Grace, then, is grace,--that is to say, it is sovereign, it is free, it is sure, it is unconditional, and it is everlasting.

  Alexander Whyte

  Grace, Unconditional, Everlasting

  Alexander Whyte (1903). “The apostle Paul”

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• If God is sovereign, then it is impossible for civil government to be neutral on issues of law. All law is based in some religious code.

  Randall Terry

  Religious, Government, Law

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• Evil Rulers Are Never Beyond The Bounds of God's Sovereign Will

  Jerry Bridges

  Evil, Rulers, Bounds

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• Election is an act of God before creation in which He chooses some people to be saved, not on account of any foreseen merit in them, but only because of His sovereign good pleasure.

  Wayne Grudem

  People, Merit, Election

  Wayne A. Grudem (2009). “Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine”, p.624, Harper Collins

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• Bitterness arises in our hearts when we do not trust in the sovereign rule of God in our lives

  Jerry Bridges

  Heart, Bitterness, Arise

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “The Pursuit of Holiness: Run in Such a Way as to Get the Prize 1 Corinthians 9:24”, p.72, Tyndale House

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• Taiwan is an independent, sovereign country.

  Chen Shui-bian

  Country, Independent, Prejudice

  "Complete Interview with President Chen Shui-bian". Interview with Keith Bradsher, www.nytimes.com. October 18, 2007.

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• But if they are well-founded and just, they can be no less than the high requirements of heaven, addressed by the voice of God to the reason and understanding of man, concerning things deeply affecting his relations to his sovereign, and essential to the formation of his character and of course to his destiny, both for this life and for the life.

  Simon Greenleaf

  Character, Destiny, Men

  Simon Greenleaf (1995). “The Testimony of the Evangelists: The Gospels Examined by the Rules of Evidence”, p.10, Kregel Publications

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• There is a warning here for true pilgrims. Beware of the talker, but also be careful not to judge too quickly those whom God has blessed with both genuine grace and a fluency to speak of divine mercy in ways more eloquent than others. The proof is in the life-not a perfect life, but a life that both delights in divine truth and magnifies God, the only giver of the sovereign grace that always produces the truly fruitful, fragrant life.

  John Bunyan

  Blessed, Perfect, Judging

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• New revelations regarding faith or morals ... have always been abhorred and challenged in the Church ... Hence, the Sovereign Pontiffs, the Councils, and the Fathers have been most careful to reject all novelties or new doctrines on matters of faith which differed from those already received.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Father, Catholic, Church

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• All our language about the future ... is like a set of signposts pointing into a bright mist ... the New Testament image of the future hope of the whole cosmos, grounded in the resurrection of Jesus, gives as coherent a picture as we need or could have of the future that is promised to the whole world, a future in which, under the sovereign and wise rule of the creator God, decay and death will be done away with and a new creation born, to which the present one will stand as mother to child.

  N. T. Wright

  Wise, Mother, Jesus

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• Metaphysical thinking will always no doubt be a strong element in her mentality, and it is to be hoped that she will never lose her great, her sovereign powers in that direction.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Strong, Thinking, Afterlife

  Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (Pondicherry, India), Aurobindo Ghose (1996). “Bulletin”

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• The whole basis of the Constitution was a restriction of power, and the whole basis of the federalist system was that there was not one sovereign centralized power from which all authority flows.

  Roy Moore

  Flow, Constitution, Authority

  "Defender of the Decalogue". Interview with Thomas R. Eddlem, www.thenewamerican.com. December 16, 2002.

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• The sovereign electing grace of God chooses us to repentance, to faith, and afterwards to holiness of living, to Christian service, to zeal, and to devotion.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Grace, Holiness

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 14: Sermons 788 to 847”, p.440, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• The sovereign people have declared they want to take back the reins of their Destiny.

  Marine Le Pen

  Destiny, People, Want

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• Individualism regards man - every man - as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being. Individualism holds that a civilized society, or any form of association, cooperation or peaceful co-existence among men, can be achieved only on the basis of the recognition of individual rights - and that a group, as such, has no rights other than the individual rights of its members.

  Ayn Rand

  Independent, Men, Rights

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.231, Penguin

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• We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.

  John Ortberg

  Espresso, Followers

  John Ortberg (2011). “If You Want to Walk on Water Get Out of the Boat”, p.250, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I'm convinced that there is nothing that can happen to me in this life that is not precisely designed by a sovereign Lord to give me the opportunity to learn to know Him.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Opportunity, Giving, Opportunities To Learn

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• This is crossing the Rubicon, after which there will be no more sovereign states in Europe with fully-fledged governments and parliaments which represent legitimate interests of their citizens, but only one State will remain. Basic things will be decided by a remote 'federal government' in Brussels and, for example, Czech citizens will be only a tiny particle whose voice and influence will be almost zero. ... We are against a European superstate.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Zero, Europe, Voice

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• Instead of pressing, with the foremost of the crowd, into the palace of Constantinople, Libanius calmly expected his arrival at Antioch; withdrew from court on the first symptoms of coldness and indifference; required a formal invitation for each visit; and taught his sovereign an important lesson, that he might command the obedience of a subject, but that he must deserve the attachment of a friend.

  Edward Gibbon

  Attachment, History, Important

  Edward Gibbon, William George Smith (1857). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.175

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• The confidence with which a Sovereign is invested, is solid only when it is sanctioned by the suffrages of the people, who clothed him with the supreme magistracy.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  People, Suffrage, Supreme

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• I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will become a sovereign.

  James K. Polk

  Presidential, Term, Servant

  Polk, James K. (1910). “The diary of James K. Polk during his presidency, 1845 to 1849, now first printed from the original manuscript in the collections of the Chicago historical society; Volume 4”, p.331, Best Books on

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• We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery because whilst others might free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind. Mind is your only ruler, sovereign. The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man who uses his mind.

  Marcus Garvey

  Men, Mind, Use

  Marcus Garvey (1991). “The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers”, p.791, Univ of California Press

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• I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.

  Taliesin

  World, Royal, Praise

  Taliesin, “The Spoils Of Annwfn”

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• I saw in States' rights the only availing check upon the absolutism of the sovereign will, and secession filled me with hope, not as the destruction but as the redemption of Democracy.... Therefore I deemed that you were fighting the battles of our liberty, our progress, and our civilization, and I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo.

  Lord Acton

  Fighting, Rights, Civilization

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• While God is not the author of evil and He never prompts or condones sin, nothing occurs without His sovereign oversight. Others may choose to do evil deeds and God's people may suffer in the short term, but He will transform the evil intentions of evil people into opportunities for the enrichment of those in His care.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Opportunity, Evil People, Suffering

  Charles R. Swindoll (2009). “Jesus: The Greatest Life of All”, p.250, Thomas Nelson

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