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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• With all my heart I believe that the world's present system of sovereign nations can only lead to barbarism, war and inhumanity, and that only world law can assure progress towards a civilized peaceful community.

  Albert Einstein

  War, Believe, Heart

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• All men - whether they go by the name of Americans or Russians or Chinese or British or Malayans or Indians or Africans - have obligations to one another that transcend their obligations to their sovereign societies.

  Norman Cousins

  Men, Names, Chinese

  Norman Cousins (1962). “In Place of Folly”

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• We have forgotten that our sovereign duty is to leave the world in a better condition than when we each entered it

  Michael Tsarion

  World, Forgotten, Duty

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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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• Our first postulate is that because God is God, He does as He pleases, only as He pleases, always as He pleases; that His great concern is the accomplishment of His own pleasure and the promotion of His own glory that He is the Supreme Being, and therefore Sovereign of the universe.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Accomplishment, Doe, Firsts

  Arthur W. Pink (2008). “Sovereignty of God”, p.21, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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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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• Prayer assumes the sovereignty of God. If God is not sovereign, we have no assurance that He is able to answer our prayers. Our prayers would become nothing more than wishes. But while God's sovereignty, along with his wisdom and love, is the foundation of our trust in Him, prayer is the expression of that trust.

  Jerry Bridges

  Prayer, Love Is, Expression

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey”, p.105, Tyndale House

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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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• Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Country, Numbers, Today

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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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