Sovereignty Quotes - Page 19

• A European currency will lead to member-nations transferring their sovereignty over financial and wage policies as well as in monetary affairs... It is an illusion to think that States can hold on to their autonomy over taxation policies.

  Hans Tietmeyer

  Thinking, Europe, Taxation

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• Any attempts by any government to change Community legislation to its own wishes are doomed to failure following the extension of policy areas now subject to majority voting... In our opinion, this must have serious implications for the traditional view of Parliament as a legislative body sovereignty.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Government, Views, Europe

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• There is no question of any erosion of essential national sovereignty.

  Edward Heath

  Erosion, Europe, Essentials

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• I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.

  John Perry Barlow

  Home, Past, Mind

  "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" by John Perry Barlow, www.eff.org. February 8, 1996.

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• The United States of America is a threat to world peace. Because what [America] is saying is that if you are afraid of a veto in the Security Council, you can go outside and take action and violate the sovereignty of other countries. That is the message they are sending to the world. That must be condemned in the strongest terms.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, Iraq, America

  "Nelson Mandela: U.S Is A Threat To World Peace". Interview with Tom Masland, www.newsweek.com. September 9, 2002.

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• So though there are many things I would have done differently, I submit to God's sovereignty and His purpose in my life and I thank Him that He brought me the way He brought me and gave me what He gave me when He thought I could handle it.

  T. D. Jakes

  Purpose, Done, Way

  "Interview: T.D. Jakes on 35 Years of Ministry". Interview with Katherine T. Phan, www.christianpost.com. June 14, 2012.

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• When we complain about the weather, we are, in reality, murmuring against God.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Reality, Weather, Complaining

  Arthur W. Pink (2008). “Sovereignty of God”, p.48, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Christian, Prayer

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• God in His love always wills what is best for us. In His wisdom He always knows what is best, and in His sovereignty He has the power to bring it about.

  Jerry Bridges

  His Love, Love Always, Knows

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.234, NavPress

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• What an incredible witness it is to a lost and fearful society when the Christian acts like a child of God, living under the loving sovereignty of the Heavenly Father.

  Henry Blackaby

  Christian, Children, Father

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• Take a firm grasp on God’s sovereignty and trust His love even when you don’t understand His purpose.

  Joyce Meyer

  Purpose, His Love, Firm

  Twitter post from Apr 16, 2013

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• In its main features the Declaration of Independence is a great spiritual document. It is a declaration not of material but of spiritual conceptions. Equality, liberty, popular sovereignty, the rights of man - these are not elements which we can see and touch. They are ideals. They have their source and their roots in the religious convictions. They belong to the unseen world. Unless the faith of the American people in these religious convictions is to endure, the principles of our Declaration will perish. We can not continue to enjoy the result if we neglect and abandon the cause.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Spiritual, Religious, Men

  Speech on the Occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, July 5, 1926.

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• Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. The acknowledgment of those virtues on which conscience congratulates us is a tribute that we can at any tine exact with confidence; but the celebration of those which we only feign, or desire without any vigorous endeavours to attain them, is received as a confession of sovereignty over regions never conquered, as a favourable decision of disputable claims, and is more welcome as more gratuitous.

  Samuel Johnson

  Decision, Desire, Debt

  Samuel Johnson (1793). “The rambler”, p.294

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• Liberals think their campaign against Wal-Mart is a way of introducing the subject of class into America's political argument, and they are more correct than they understand. Their campaign is liberalism as condescension. It is a philosophic repugnance toward markets, because consumer sovereignty results in the masses making messes. Liberals, aghast, see the choices Americans make with their dollars and their ballots and announce - yes, announce - that Americans are sorely in need of more supervision by... liberals.

  George Will

  Thinking, Class, America

  "Dems Vs. Wal-Mart". www.jewishworldreview.com. September 14, 2006.

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• All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Aggravation, Office, Effort

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• It is just as important to trust God as it is to obey Him. When we disobey God we defy His authority and despise His holiness. But when we fail to trust God we doubt His sovereignty and question His goodness.

  Jerry Bridges

  Doubt, Important, Holiness

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.15, NavPress

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• God is the ultimate musician. His music transforms your life. The notes of redemption rearrange your heart and restore your life. His songs of forgiveness, grace, reconciliation, truth, hope, sovereignty, and love give you back your humanity and restore your identity.

  Paul David Tripp

  Song, Heart, Giving

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• Individualism is at once an ethical-psychological concept and an ethical-political one. As an ethical-psychological concept, individualism holds that a human being should think and judge independently, respecting nothing more than the sovereignty of his or her mind; thus, it is intimately connected with the concept of autonomy. As an ethical-political concept, individualism upholds the supremacy of individual rights

  Nathaniel Branden

  Thinking, Rights, Judging

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• It is a most blessed thing to be subject to the sovereignty of God.

  John Calvin

  Blessed, Sovereignty Of God, Subjects

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• In Reformed theology, if God is not sovereign over the entire created order, then he is not sovereign at all. The term sovereignty too easily becomes a chimera. If God is not sovereign, then he is not God.

  R. C. Sproul

  Order, Sovereign, Chimera

  R. C. Sproul (2016). “What is Reformed Theology?: Understanding the Basics”, p.22, Baker Books

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• Opposition to divine sovereignty is essentially atheism.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Atheism, Divine, Opposition

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• There comes a moment when you must quit talking to God about the mountain in your life and start talking to the mountain about your God. You proclaim His power. You declare His sovereignty. You affirm His faithfulness. You stand on His Word. You cling to His promises.

  Mark Batterson

  Talking, Promise, Mountain

  Mark Batterson (2012). “Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge”, p.73, Zondervan

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• When God is our Holy Father, sovereignty, holiness, omniscience, and immutability do not terrify us; they leave us full of awe and gratitude. Sovereignty is only tyrannical if it is unbounded by goodness; holiness is only terrifying if it is untempered by grace; omniscience is only taunting if it is unaccompanied by mercy; and immutability is only torturous if there is no guarantee of goodwill.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Gratitude, Father, Grace

  Ravi Zacharias (2002). “Cries of The Heart”, p.24, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• What we do every time we pray is to confess our impotence and God's sovereignty.

  J. I. Packer

  Praying, Impotence

  J. I. Packer, Mark Dever (2008). “Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God”, p.18, InterVarsity Press

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• Austerity is not part of the European treaties; democracy and the principle of popular sovereignty are.

  Alexis Tsipras

  Democracy, Principles, Austerity

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