Lordship Quotes

• If God is the Creator of the entire universe, then it must follow that He is the Lord of the whole universe. No part of the world is outside of His lordship. That means that no part of my life must be outside of His lordship.

  R. C. Sproul

  Mean, Servant Of God, World

  R. C. Sproul (2013). “The Holiness of God”, p.13, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• When Jesus is truly our Lord, He directs our lives and we gladly obey Him. Indeed, we bring every part of our lives under His lordship - our home and family, our sexuality and marriage, our job or unemployment, our money and possessions, our ambitions and recreations.

  John Stott

  Jesus, Jobs, Home

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• You don't make Him Lord. He's Lord already. You just recognize it.

  Adrian Rogers

  Lord

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• That's what lordship is - Christ reigning as supreme authority over our life. Making Jesus Lord of our life is not something passive. It's not a state of being, it's a state of doing. Those whom Jesus recognizes as His own are those who do the will of His Father in heaven.

  Keith Green

  Jesus, Father, Heaven

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• Christianity is not a cafeteria line where you say, “I’ll have a little salvation, but no Lordship right now.

  Adrian Rogers

  Lines, Littles, Cafeteria

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• The Lordship of Jesus Christ is not quite forgotten among Christians, but it has been relegated to the hymnal where all responsibility toward it may be comfortably discharged in a glow of religious emotion. Or if it is taught as a theory in the classroom it is rarely applied to practical living. The idea that the Man Christ Jesus has absolute final authority over the whole church and over its members in every detail of their lives is simply not now accepted as true by the rank and file of evangelical Christians.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

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• Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone to accept, His lordship.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Affection, Christ, Jesus Love

  Elisabeth Elliot, Joshua Harris (2002). “Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control”, p.41, Revell

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• The founding document of the United States of America acknowledges the Lordship of Jesus Christ because we are a Christian nation.

  Pat Robertson

  Christian, Jesus, America

  Pat Robertson (1994). “The Collected Works of Pat Robertson: The New Millennium/the New World Order/the Secret Kingdom/3 Books in 1”, Bristol Park Books

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• If I had only one sermon to preach it would be on the Lordship of Christ. When we get right on that point we are right all down the line. God honors the exaltation of His Son.

  Vance Havner

  Son, Honor, Exaltation

  Vance Havner (1973). “Three-Score & Ten”, Fleming H. Revell Company

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• The irony of New Testament lordship is that only in slavery to Christ can a man discover authentic freedom.

  R. C. Sproul

  Men, Slavery, Irony

  Twitter post from Mar 18, 2016

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• Revelation is the first step to holiness, and consecration is the second. A day must come in our lives, as definite as the day of our conversion, when we give up all right to ourselves and submit to the absolute Lordship of Jesus Christ.

  Watchman Nee

  Jesus, Giving Up, Holiness

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Normal Christian Life”, p.113, CLC Publications

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• God is sovereign, that is He is the boss. He is in control. He is the supreme ruler of heaven and earth for all of eternity. He is Lord. We don't make Him Lord. He is Lord. And joy comes when we acknowledge that He is Lord; we rest in His Lordship. We trust His sovereignty, and we surrender to it. That means that God has the right to give, and God has the right to take away.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Mean, Giving, Joy

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• Christ's lordship is a blessed hope for some & a terrifying nightmare for others. Regardless of our response, it is an unalterable reality.

  Paul Washer

  Blessed, Reality, Nightmare

  Twitter post from Sep 11, 2013

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• When a man comes under the blood of Christ, his whole capacity as a man is refashioned. His soul is saved, yes, but so are his mind and his body. True spirituality means the lordship of Christ over the total man.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Mean, Men, Blood

  Francis A. Schaeffer (2009). “Art and the Bible”, p.16, InterVarsity Press

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• A kingdom man is a man who visibly demonstrates the comprehensive rule of God underneath the Lordship of Jesus Christ in every area of his life.

  Tony Evans

  Jesus, Men, Kingdoms

  Tony Evans (2013). “Kingdom Man Devotional”, p.1, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• It is time for us to seek again the leadership of the Holy Spirit. Man's lordship has cost us too much.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Cost, Too Much

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• This is the essence of Kingdom Authority. Fathers can have no authority in the home until they have surrendered to the headship of Jesus. Mothers cannot pray with authority for their children when they have no submissive spirit to their own husbands. Pastors cannot lead, teach, or preach with anointing and supernatural power without being fully broken and surrendered to the lordship of Christ, the authority of the Word, and the commands of the Spirit.

  Adrian Rogers

  Mother, Jesus, Children

  Adrian Rogers (2002). “The Incredible Power of Kingdom Authority: Getting an Upper Hand on the Underworld”, p.63, B&H Publishing Group

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• His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.

  James M. Barrie

  Equality, May, Upstairs

  The Admirable Crichton (performed 1902, pubd. 1914) act 1

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• He rules all things, not as the world soul but as the lord of all. And because of his dominion he is called Lord God Pantokrator". For “god" is a relative word and has reference to servants, and godhood is the lordship of God, not over his own body "as is supposed by those for whom God is the world soul', but over servants.

  Isaac Newton

  God, Science, Perfect

  "The Principia: The Authoritative Translation: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy".

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• Christ's resurrection doesn't mean escaping from the world; it means mission to the world based on Jesus's lordship over the world.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Mean, Escaping

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• My mustrious lordship, i'll show you what a woman can do

  Artemisia Gentileschi

  Strong Women, Art, Empowering

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• Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.

  Alan Hirsch

  Jesus, Speech, Action

  Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.164, Baker Books

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• Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Maturity, Past

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• Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.

  Owain Glyndwr

  Cousin, Fear, Long

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• There is something you can't fix, can't heal, or can't escape, and all you can do it trust God. Finding ultimate refuge in God means you become so immersed in his presence, so convinced of his goodness, so devoted to his lordship that you find even the cave is a perfectly safe place to be because he is there with you.

  John Ortberg

  Mean, Caves, Safe

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