Sovereign Quotes - Page 22

• Put up at the moment of greatest suffering a prayer, not for thy own escape, but for the enfranchisement of some being dear to thee, and the sovereign spirit will accept thy ransom.

  Margaret Fuller

  Prayer, Suffering, Ransom

  Margaret Fuller, James Freeman Clarke, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Henry Channing (1852). “Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli”, p.315

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• I am speaking to those among you who have retained some sovereign shred of their soul, unsold and unstamped: '- to the order of others'. If, in the chaos of the motives that have made you listen to the radio tonight, there was an honest, rational desire to learn what is wrong with the world, you are the man whom I wished to address. By the rules and terms of my code, one owes a rational statement to those whom it does concern and who are making an effort to know. Those who are making an effort to fail to understand me, are not a concern of mine.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Order, Effort

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.1006, Penguin

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• Sovereignty is a question of principle. We must tell the Iraqis: you are a sovereign people. And you are in charge of your own future.

  Jacques Chirac

  People, Principles, Sovereignty

  Interview, www.nytimes.com. September 22, 2003.

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• When wild the head-wind beat, Thy sovereign Will commanding Bring them who dare to fly To a safe landing.

  Duncan Campbell Scott

  Wind, Safe, Aviation

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• There's a strong victim mentality in my generation. I think it's spiritual laziness. They will agree that God is sovereign over all, but then they will say, "Well, I wish he would sovereignly take away my lust issue." There's just not a lot of fortitude, not a lot of fight in them.

  Matt Chandler

  Spiritual, Strong, Fighting

  Source: skyejethani.com

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• The world is beset by challenges including the ongoing danger of international terrorism, and the significant political and economic threats posed by factors such as the high levels of corporate and sovereign debt and persistent unemployment.

  Dan Quayle

  Political, Challenges, Unemployment

  Source: www.leadersmag.com

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• The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.

  Robert Toombs

  Independent, Equality, Government

  Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.3

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• I believe the sovereign God of the universe justifies us freely, and then we are called to run with him in sanctification.

  Matt Chandler

  Running, Believe, Justify

  Source: skyejethani.com

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• I have always thought that Israel, as an independent and sovereign nation, had a right to defend itself.

  Don Nickles

  Independent, Israel, Nations

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• With many sovereign states, with no system of law enforceable among them, with each state judging its grievances and ambitions according to the dictates of its own reason or desire - conflict, sometimes leading to war, is bound to occur.

  Kenneth Waltz

  War, Ambition, Law

  Kenneth N. Waltz (2010). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.159, Columbia University Press

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• They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due

  Jonathan Edwards

  Grace, Mercy, Creditors

  Jonathan Edwards (2005). “Sermons of Jonathan Edwards”, p.267, Hendrickson Publishers

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• Kartik places a sovereign in the lady's cup, and I know that it's likely all he has. "Why did you do that?" I ask. He kicks a rock on the ground, balancing it nimbly between his feet like a ball. "She needed it." Father says it isn't good to give money to beggers. They'll only spend it unwisely on drink or other pleasures. "She might buy ale with it." He shrugs. "Then she'll have ale. It isn't the pound that matters; it's the hope...I know what it's like to fight for things that others take for granted.

  Libba Bray

  Father, Fighting, Rocks

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.299, Simon and Schuster

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• To admit the existence of a need in God is to admit incompleteness in the divine Being. Need is a creature-word and cannot be spoken of the Creator. God has a voluntary relationg to everything He has made, but He has no Necessary relation to anything outside of Himself. His interest in His creatures arises from His sovereign good pleasure, not from any need those creatures can supply nor from any completeness they can dring to Him who is complete in himself.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Creator God, Needs, Pleasure

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• The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Men, Rights, Law

  "Whence Come Wars". Book by Fulton J. Sheen (p. 60), 1940.

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• For the world is broken, sundered, busted down the middle, self ripped from self and man pasted back together as mythical monster, half angel, half beast, but no man...Some day a man will walk into my office as a ghost or beast or ghost-beast and walk out as a man, which is to say sovereign wanderer, lordly exile, worker and waiter and watcher.

  Walker Percy

  Angel, Men, Self

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• The key to Christian living is a thirst and hunger for God. And one of the main reasons people do not understand or experience the sovereignty of grace and the way it works through the awakening of sovereign joy is that their hunger and thirst for God is so small.

  John Piper

  Christian, Keys, People

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• 'I wish I had only offered you a sovereign instead of ten pounds. Give me back nine pounds, Jane; I’ve a use for it.' 'And so have I, sir,' I returned, putting my hands and my purse behind me. 'I could not spare the money on any account.' 'Little niggard!' said he, 'refusing me a pecuniary request! Give me five pounds, Jane.' 'Not five shillings, sir; nor five pence.' 'Just let me look at the cash.' 'No, sir; you are not to be trusted.'

  Charlotte Bronte

  Hands, Giving, Wish

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• Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign. ... You must weep that your own government, at present, seems blind to this truth.

  Mother Teresa

  Rights, Government, Abortion

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• Man represses the irrational passions of destructiveness, hate, envy, revenge; he worships power, money, the sovereign state, the nation; while he pays lip service to the teachings of the great spiritual leaders of the human race, those of Buddha, the prophets, Socrates, Jesus, Mohammed-he has transformed these teachings into a jungle of superstition and idol-worship. How can mankind save itself from destroying itself by this discrepancy between intellectual-technical overmaturity and emotional backwardness?

  Erich Fromm

  Spiritual, Jesus, Revenge

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.11, Open Road Media

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• Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governour of the Universe: And if a member of Civil Society, do it with a saving of his allegiance to the Universal Sovereign. We maintain therefore that in matters of Religion, no man's right is abridged by the institution of Civil Society and that Religion is wholly exempt from its cognizance.

  James Madison

  Men, Saving, Matter

  James Madison, Virginia. General assembly, 1785 (1828). “A memorial and remonstrance, on the religious rights of man; written in 1784-5, at the request of the religious society of Baptists in Virginia. ...”, p.4

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• A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations to envy or malevolence, and has always a certain prospect of discovering new reasons for adoring the sovereign author of the universe.

  Samuel Johnson

  Nature, Men, Envy

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.9

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• On 18th September 2014, between the hours of 7am and 10pm, absolute sovereign power will lie in the hands of the Scottish people. They have to decide whether to keep it, or give it away to where their minority status makes them permanently powerless and vulnerable.

  Jim Sillars

  Lying, Hands, People

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• The majority of problems on this planet are the result of the idea that humans are not sovereign and autonomous, but property owned by primitive Gods and incompetent governments.

  Christopher Hyatt

  Government, Ideas, Majority

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• Be true in your relationship with the Sovereign Creator, for He is the greatest one with whom you could relate in all your affairs and states.
  Know that He cares for those who turn to Him; relieves difficulties for them; is there for them in every circumstance, condition and change; and He shelters them in His Mercy, Grace, Pardon and Forgiveness.

  Habib Umar bin Hafiz

  Grace, Care, Shelter

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• It's time for ordinary Americans to come out of the shadows and remind Washington every day in words and actions that we are a sovereign nation, not a sanctuary nation.

  Michelle Malkin

  Shadow, Ordinary, Sanctuary

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