Sovereignty Of God Quotes

Struggle is a prerequisite to surrender.

~ Jen Pollock Michel

Almightiness and wisdom combined will make no failures.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I had rather mistrust my own capacity than God's justice.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

As you call people to submit to the Person of Christ, you can trust the Spirit of Christ to lead them to salvation.

~ David Platt

When God does not answer His children according to the letter, He does so according to the spirit. If thou askest for coarse meal, wilt thou be angered because He gives thee the finest flour? If thou seekest bodily health, shouldst thou complain if instead thereof He makes thy sickness turn to the healing of spiritual maladies?

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Tomorrow's freedom is today's surrender.

~ Sons And Daughters

The seed of acceptable devotion must come from heaven's storehouse. Only the prayer which comes from God can go to God.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Why do we calculate our forces, and consult with flesh and blood to our grievous wounding? Jehovah has power enough without borrowing from our puny arm.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The more God-centered our worship practices, the more mercy-centered our life.

~ Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

If we know our original blessing, we can easily handle our original sin. If we rest in a previous dignity, we can bear insults effortlessly. If you really know your name is on some eternal list, you can let go of the irritations on the small lists of time. Ultimate security allows you to suffer small insecurity without tremendous effort. If you are tethered at some center point, it is amazing how far out you can fly and not get lost.

~ Richard Rohr

His Kingship, precisely because it is so broad, so total, is doomed to be rejected by anybody who is still into tribalism, or small belonging systems. We don't really like the big Kingdom if it gets in the way of our smaller kingdoms, and it always does.

~ Richard Rohr

We think in terms of apostolic journeys. God dares to put His greatest ambassadors in chains.

~ Watchman Nee

The call of God is a call according to the nature of God; where we go in obedience to that call depends entirely on the providential circumstances which God engineers, and is not of any moment. The danger is to fit the call of God into the idea of our own discernment and say, “God called me there.” If we say so and stick to it, then it is good-bye to the development of the life of God in us.

~ Oswald Chambers

If we need the protection of men, let us first ask it from God. If we prevail with Him, the power of the most mighty and of the most wicked must minister to our relief.

~ Alexander Carson

You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.

~ Thomas L. Friedman

No art like the art displayed in our salvation, no cunning workmanship like that beheld in the righteousness of the saints. Justification has engrossed learned pens in all ages of the church, and will be the theme of admiration in eternity.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

When we understand the character of God, when we grasp something of His holiness, then we begin to understand the radical character of our sin and hopelessness. Helpless sinners can survive only by grace. Our strength is futile in itself; we are spiritually impotent without the assistance of a merciful God. We may dislike giving our attention to God's wrath and justice, but until we incline ourselves to these aspects of God's nature, we will never appreciate what has been wrought for us by grace. Even Edwards's sermon on sinners in God's hands was not designed to stress the flames of hell. The resounding accent falls not on the fiery pit but on the hands of the God who holds us and rescues us from it. The hands of God are gracious hands. They alone have the power to rescue us from certain destruction.

~ R.c. Sproul

Every time a believer mounts from this earth to paradise, it is an answer to Christ's prayer. A good old divine remarks, Many times Jesus and His people pull against one another in prayer. You bend your knee in prayer and say 'Father, I will that Thy saints be with me where I am'; Christ says, 'Father, I will that they also, whom Thou hast given Me, be with Me where I am.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Not even generals can stop the rain.

~ Jeff Shaara

Why should not He had made all things, still having something immediately to do with the things that He has made? Where lies the great difficulty, if we own the being of a God, that He created all things out of nothing, I'll be allowing something immediate influence of God on creation still?

~ Jonathan Edwards

On observing 1963 America for the first time, the author says that organization and standardization to a certain degree compete with divine providence.

~ Karl Barth

Justice is useful when money is useless.

~ Plato

Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony.

~ Thomas Hardy

There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul didn't dare to say that my God displeased me, it refused to attribute to You whatever was displeasing.

~ Augustine Of Hippo

All the arguing in the world won't change the mind of the Umpire.

~ Pride Of The Yankees

If grass grows and withers, it can only mean that it is part of a greater thing, which is even more real; not that the grass is less real than it looks. St. Thomas (Aquinas) has a really logical right to say, in the words of the modern mystic, A. E.: I begin by the grass to be bound again to the Lord.

~ G.k. Chesterton

The battle belongs to the Lord, and we already know that He wins the war.

~ Jared Brock

God reminds us again and again that things between He and us are forever fixed. They are the rendezvous points where God declares to us concretely that the debt has been paid, the ledger put away, and that everything we need, in Christ we already possess. This re-convincing produces humility, because we realize that our needs are fulfilled. We don’t have to worry about ourselves anymore. This in turn frees us to stop looking out for what we think we need and liberates us to love our neighbor by looking out for what they need.

~ Tullian Tchividjian

Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.

~ R.c. Sproul

If there is one single molecule in this universe running around loose, totally free of God’s sovereignty, then we have no guarantee that a single promise of God will ever be fulfilled.

~ R.c. Sproul

We all have a tendency to use prayer to dictate to God.

~ Jen Pollock Michel