Sovereign quotes
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There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine!
-- Abraham Kuyper -
A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible. The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The Americans stabbed in the back the forces that worked to bring about the collapse of Saddam's regime and wanted to keep Iraq a sovereign country.
-- Ahmed Chalabi -
They are not rules prescribed by the sovereign to the subject, but agreements between sovereign and sovereign.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
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Grace, then, is grace,--that is to say, it is sovereign, it is free, it is sure, it is unconditional, and it is everlasting.
-- Alexander Whyte -
I would sacrifice peace for a sovereign Bosnia-Herzegovina ... but for that peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina I would not sacrifice sovereignty.
-- Alija Izetbegovic -
True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.
-- Alvin Toffler -
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Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
For it is not true, as some treatise-mongers lay down in their systems, of the probity of the speaker, that it contributes nothing to persuasion; but moral character nearly, I may say, carries with it the most sovereign efficacy in making credible.
-- Aristotle -
A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state, especially of the highest of all. The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, and the constitution is in fact the government.
-- Aristotle -
if the will is their servant then it is not sovereign, and if the will is not sovereign, we certainly cannot predicate 'freedom' of it.
-- Arthur W. Pink -
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Individualism regards man-every man-as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being.
-- Ayn Rand -
Grace is free sovereign favor to the ill-deserving.
-- B. B. Warfield -
Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should.
-- Bernard Bailyn -
We must settle in our hearts that no matter what, God is sovereign.
-- Beth Moore -
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Peace comes in situations completely surrendered to the sovereign authority of Christ.
-- Beth Moore -
Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.
-- Carl Schmitt -
Our Sovereign's Health, the Majesty of the People.
-- Charles James Fox -
As children of a sovereign God, we are never victims of our circumstances.
-- Charles Stanley -
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It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in decisive battle.
-- Christian Lous Lange -
Hand in hand with nationalist economic isolationism, militarism struggles to maintain the sovereign state against the forward march of internationalism.
-- Christian Lous Lange -
No state is free from militarism, which is inherent in the very concept of the sovereign state. There are merely differences of degree in the militarism of states.
-- Christian Lous Lange -
Earlier ages fortified themselves behind the sovereign state, behind protectionism and militarism.
-- Christian Lous Lange -
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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 -
Reverential human acts of submission and homage before the divine Sovereign, in response to his gracious revelation of himself, and in accordance with his will.
-- Dan Block -
We can rest confident in the fact that nothing will happen to us in this world apart from the gracious will of a sovereign God. Nothing.
-- David Platt -
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
-- Denis Diderot -
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Until we realize that our money power is our sovereign power we cannot act as sovereigns
-- E.C. Riegel -
The nightingale is sovereign of song.
-- Edmund Spenser -
Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign
-- Edward Coke -
God in His sovereign goodness often uses the painful and at times debilitating injury of a spear thrower to make us readier for His service. ... One thing you discover about spear throwers is that though it’s not necessary for them to be good, it’s essential for them to appear good.
-- Erwin W. Lutzer -
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What makes sovereign ugliness are our conventions.
-- Eugene Delacroix -
The people are sovereign and the Constitution is supreme. There is no one greater than the people.
-- Franco Debono -
In the wounds our sufferings plough immortal love sows sovereign seed.
-- Gerald Massey -
Each state enjoys sovereign power.
-- Gouverneur Morris -
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There can be no more intimate and elemental part of the individual than his or her own consciousness. At the deepest level, our consciousness is what we are - to the extent that if we are not sovereign over our own consciousness then we cannot in any meaningful sense be sovereign over anything else either.
-- Graham Hancock -
God either rules as sovereign in interpretation over *all* areas of life or none.
-- Greg L. Bahnsen -
If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.
-- Hamid Karzai -
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 -
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So you know, everyone points out Greece's default record, but the history of a lot of sovereign nations is not a good one when it comes to lending them money.
-- James Chanos -
I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will become a sovereign.
-- James K. Polk -
Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary act. In this relation, then, the new Constitution will, if established, be a FEDERAL, and not a NATIONAL constitution.
-- James Madison -
Whether you can see it or not - and often we cannot - everything is being used of God for your good as well as the good of othersThis knowledge is by faith. It is not always by sight. But it is nevertheless certain, because it is based on the character of God, who reveals himself to us as both sovereign and benevolentWe are not to be anxious about the unknown future or to fret about it. We are to live in a moment-by-moment dependence upon God.
-- James Montgomery Boice -
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Order is manifestly maintained in the universe... governed by the sovereign will of God.
-- James Prescott Joule -
Bitterness arises in our hearts when we do not trust in the sovereign rule of God in our lives
-- Jerry Bridges -
We are not a nation, but a union, a confederacy of equal and sovereign states.
-- John C. Calhoun -
We unjustly defraud God of his right, unless each of us lives and dies in dependence on His sovereign pleasure.
-- John Calvin -
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It is the business of the teacher ... to fortify reason and to make conscience sovereign.
-- John Lancaster Spalding -
The evil and suffering in this world are greater than any of us can comprehend. But evil and suffering are not ultimate. God is. Satan, the great lover of evil and suffering, is not sovereign. God is.
-- John Piper -
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 -
It is our confidence in the sovereign grace of God that gives us any hope of success in missions.
-- Kevin DeYoung -
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The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.
-- Kwame Nkrumah -
The ECB's interventions in sovereign bond markets should not be perceived or interpreted as a 'freebie' for governments. They are temporary.
-- Lucas Papademos -
Spain is finding it very difficult to finance itself with sovereign debt risk premium so high.
-- Mariano Rajoy -
Sovereign. Deadly. Perfect.
-- Marisha Pessl -
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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 -
Gaza will become part of sovereign Israel and will be populated by Jews. This will also serve to ease the housing crisis in Israel
-- Moshe Feiglin -
Activity is a sovereign remedy for the blues.
-- Myrtle Reed -
The Thirteen States are Thirteen Sovereign bodies.
-- Oliver Ellsworth -
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Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.
-- Oriana Fallaci -
Our work is not to save souls, but to disciple them. Salvation and sanctification are the work of God's sovereign grace, and our work as His disciples is to disciple others' lives until they are totally yielded to God. One life totally devoted to God is of more value to Him than one hundred lives which have been simply awakened by His Spirit. As workers for God, we must reproduce our own kind spiritually, and those lives will be God's testimony to us as His workers. God brings us up to a standard of life through His grace, and we are responsible for reproducing that same standard in others.
-- Oswald Chambers -
One can put some trust in the gratitude of a sovereign, and also in that of his family; under certain conditions, one can even rely upon it; but one can never expect anything from the gratitude of a nation.
-- Otto von Bismarck -
Most redoubted lord and right sovereign cousin, may the Almighty Lord have you in his keeping.
-- Owain Glyndwr -
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Puerto Rico has two divergent paths forward. After a reasonable transition period, it could become a state. Or it can become a sovereign nation.
-- Pedro Pierluisi -
Anarchy, the absence of a master, of a sovereign.
-- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon -
There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God's sovereign providence.
-- R. C. Sproul -
Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.
-- R. C. Sproul -
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If God is not sovereign, God is not God.
-- R. C. Sproul -
God’s sovereign will is not at the whim and mercy of our person and individual responses to it.
-- R. C. Sproul -
If there is one maverick molecule in all the universe, then God is not sovereign. And if God is not sovereign, He is not God.
-- R. C. Sproul -
In Reformed theology, if God is not sovereign over the entire created order, then he is not sovereign at all. The term sovereignty too easily becomes a chimera. If God is not sovereign, then he is not God.
-- R. C. Sproul -
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God is sovereign. His grace cannot be tamed.
-- R. Kent Hughes -
I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose...
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan -
God's guidance will require patience on our part. His leading is not usually a direct assurance, a revelation, but His sovereign controlling of the circumstances of our lives, with the Word of God as our rule. It is therefore, inevitable that the unfolding of His purposes will take time - sometimes a very long time.
-- Sinclair B. Ferguson -
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God doth not govern the world only by his will as an absolute monarch, but by his wisdom and goodness as a tender father. It is not his greatest pleasure to show his sovereign power, or his inconceivable wisdom, but his immense goodness, to which he makes the other attributes subservient.
-- Stephen Charnock -
The true sovereign is not the American president nor the English king, but the Lord of the Second Advent.
-- Sun Myung Moon -
There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must not be attacked, towns which must not be besieged, positions which must not be contested, commands of the sovereign which must not be obeyed.
-- Sun Tzu -
I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.
-- Taliesin -
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Wizard's Sixth Rule The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
-- Terry Goodkind -
There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.
-- Victor Hugo -
Election is an act of God before creation in which He chooses some people to be saved, not on account of any foreseen merit in them, but only because of His sovereign good pleasure.
-- Wayne Grudem -
Egypt is a sovereign nation.
-- William Hague -
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I wonder much that a court of Law should be in doubt whether a Resolution of Congress can superceed the Law of a Sovereign State.
-- William Whipple -
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 -
If you can explain what is happening in a church, apart from the sovereign act of God, it is not revival.
-- Martyn Lloyd-Jones -
We are made for action, and activity is the sovereign remedy for all physical ills.
-- Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor -
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Contentment is accepting God's sovereign control over all of life's circumstances.
-- Linda Dillow -
People ask me, 'Why pray if God is sovereign?' I respond, 'Why pray if He isn't?
-- Michael Horton -
We have forgotten that our sovereign duty is to leave the world in a better condition than when we each entered it
-- Michael Tsarion -
A people among whom custom is altogether sovereign endures the despotism of the dead.
-- Bertrand de Jouvenel -
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Better a sovereign in squalor than a slave in splendor.
-- Donald James -
When wild the head-wind beat, Thy sovereign Will commanding Bring them who dare to fly To a safe landing.
-- Duncan Campbell Scott -
When I forget my sovereign, may my God forget me.
-- Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow -
The Government made by a number of Sovereign States.
-- Roger Sherman -
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The sovereign power of all civil authority is founded in the consent of the people.
-- Roger Williams -
The whole basis of the Constitution was a restriction of power, and the whole basis of the federalist system was that there was not one sovereign centralized power from which all authority flows.
-- Roy Moore -
True faith is trusting the sovereign God even when we don't understand.
-- Hank Hanegraaff
