Sovereignty Of God Quotes

He (Lincoln) differed from fanatical moralists primarily in that he was always perplexed. No sooner did he believe he was doing God's will that he began to admit that God's purposes might be different from his own. In short, he never forgot the men's contrast between the absolute goodness of God and the faltering goodness of all who are in the finite predicament.

~ Elton Trueblood

We are not bringing Christ to poor communities. He has been active in these communities since the creation of the world, sustaining them, Hebrews 1:3 says, by His powerful Word. Hence, a significant part of working in poor communities involves discovering and appreciating what God has been doing there for a LONG time.

~ Steve Corbett

The smaller you get—the smaller life makes you—the easier it is to see the grandeur of grace. While I am far more incapable than I may have initially thought, God is infinitely more capable than I ever hoped.

~ Tullian Tchividjian

Nothing in all the vast universe can come to pass otherwise than God has eternally purposed. Here is a foundation of faith. Here is a resting place for the intellect. Here is an anchor for the soul, both sure and steadfast. It is not blind fate, unbridled evil, man or Devil, but the Lord Almighty who is ruling the world, ruling it according to His own good pleasure and for His own eternal glory.

~ Arthur W. Pink

If we further consider this divine panoramic view within which all evil is supposedly a secret good is held by a God who, according to Scripture, has a passionate hatred toward all evil, the solution becomes more problematic still. For it is certainly not clear how God could hate what he himself wills and sees as a contributing ingredient in the good of the whole. If all things play themselves out according to a divine plan, how can God genuinely hate anything?

~ Gregory A. Boyd

Sure, some of us humans might be angry at a sovereign God about Hell, but know that that is about as meaningful as a few germs being angry at humans about bleach.

~ Criss Jami

Author says writing about Jesus is difficult because it is like writing about a friend who is still liable to surprise us.

~ N.t. Wright

Forget happiness. You were called to a throne. How will you prepare for it? That is the question of virtue, Christian style.

~ N.t. Wright

The triune God exercises total government over all things, and He requires us as His image-bearers to exercise government in Christ in our own spheres in terms of His law.

~ Rousas John Rushdoony

Sin is cosmic treason. Sin is treason against a perfectly pure Sovereign. It is an act of supreme ingratitude toward the One to whom we owe everything, to the One who has given us life itself. Have you ever considered the deeper implications of the slightest sin, of the most minute peccadillo? What are we saying to our Creator when we disobey Him at the slightest point? We are saying no to the righteousness of God. We are saying, “God, Your law is not good. My judgement is better than Yours. Your authority does not apply to me. I am above and beyond Your jurisdiction. I have the right to do what I want to do, not what You command me to do.

~ R.c. Sproul

On what grounds would God be told that He can bring death to millions of people at the end of a normal life span, but that He may not do it in any other way?

~ Donald Grey Barnhouse

There is no such thing as a great man of God, only weak, pitiful, faithless men of a great and merciful God.

~ Paul David Washer

If there is one single reason why good people turn evil, it is because they fail to recognize God’s ownership over their kingdom, their vocation, their resources, their abilities, and above all their lives.

~ Erwin W. Lutzer

It is well for us when prayers about our sorrows are linked with pleas concerning our sins—when, being under God's hand, we are not wholly taken up with our pain, but remember our offences against God.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The more unworthy you feel yourself to be, the more evidence have you that nothing but unspeakable love could have led the Lord Jesus to save such a soul as yours. The more demerit you feel, the clearer is the display of the abounding love of God in having chosen you, and called you, and made you an heir of bliss.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

In brokenness comes beauty, divine fragility.

~ Mercyme

Bill Bright, founder of Campus Crusade for Christ and author of the Four Spiritual Laws chose three words for his tombstone: slave for Jesus.

~ Kyle Idleman

The author points out strikingly different reactions to calamity. While many passengers of a devastating shipwreck were thankful to be alive, future presidential assassin Charles Guiteau saw his being spared as proof of his exceptionalism rather than of the grace from which he benefited.

~ Candice Millard

You can't believe what a lovely planet we have until you see her from outside.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

We must remember that all stations are as much about life as they are obviously about death. All is redeemed. All is grist for transformation and glory.

~ Megan Mckenna

No man is considered just and virtuous who does not know whence he came and wither he is going. – Napoleon

~ Andrew Roberts

Worship is the launching pad for life.

~ Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

In a sermon entitled “God’s Providence,” C. H. Spurgeon said, “Napoleon once heard it said, that man proposes and God disposes. ‘Ah,’ said Napoleon, ‘but I propose and dispose too.’ How do you think he proposed and disposed? He proposed to go and take Russia; he proposed to make all Europe his. He proposed to destroy that power, and how did he come back again? How had he disposed it? He came back solitary and alone, his mighty army perished and wasted, having well-nigh eaten and devoured one another through hunger. Man proposes and God disposes.

~ Jerry Bridges

God often grants in a moment what He has long denied.

~ Thomas À Kempis

Man is most free when he is most guided.

~ Elton Trueblood

The Holy Ghost is no temporary gift, He abides with the saints. We have but to seek Him aright, and He will be found of us. He is jealous, but He is pitiful; if He leaves in anger, He returns in mercy. Condescending and tender, He does not weary of us, but awaits to be gracious still.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Greater is Your care for me than all the care I am able to take from myself.

~ Thomas À Kempis

The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence of God, we are humbled and become most aware of ourselves as creatures. This is the opposite of Satan's original temptation, You shall be as gods.

~ R.c. Sproul

The sun was shining, but Christ had hidden Himself, and all the world was black to you; or it was night, and since the bright and morning star was gone, no other star could yield you so much as a ray of light. What a howling wilderness is this world without our Lord! If once He hideth Himself from us, withered are the flowers of our garden; our pleasant fruits decay; the birds suspend their songs, and a tempest overturns our hopes.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The Christian story, centered as it is on the death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, is the only story for making sense of desire and loss.

~ Jen Pollock Michel

I am pleased God made my skin black. I only wish He had to made it thicker.

~ Curt Flood

That vague and wandering opinion of Deity is declared by an apostle to be ignorance of God:

~ Augustine Of Hippo

A big part of me needed something outside myself to tell me who I was. The thing that had been designed to tell me who I was was gone.

~ Donald Miller

Always, in Lincoln's mature theology, there is paradox. There is starting this, yet there is also tenderness; there is melancholy, yet there is also humor: there is moral law, yet there is also compassion. History is the scene of the working out God's justice, which we can never escape, but it is also the scene of the revelation of the everlasting mercy.

~ Elton Trueblood

We are all theologians, either good ones or bad ones. I'd rather be a good one. Wouldn't you?

~ Randy Alcorn

God, Lincoln believed, is seen more clearly events that in nature, though He maybe seen there also. It is a majestic thing, thought Lincoln, for a person to be RESPONSIBLE.

~ Elton Trueblood

We cannot infer from prosperity that God is pleased with us, nor can we infer from adversity that he is displeased with us.

~ Wilson Benton

(Bonhoeffer's) change was not an ungainly, embarrassing leap from which he would have to retreat slightly when he gained more maturity and perspective. It was by all accounts a deepening consistent with what had gone before.

~ Eric Metaxas

I didn't know how faith felt when it grew incrementally.

~ Jen Pollock Michel

God is the I AM that I AM not the I AM that we wish.

~ Jen Pollock Michel