Divine Sovereignty Quotes

#1. To every soul that knows how to pray, to every soul that by faith comes to Jesus, the true mercy seat, divine sovereignty wears no dark and terrible aspect but is full of love.

Charles Spurgeon

#2. it is clear that divine sovereignty and human freedom contradict each other.[16] If God controls everything, including man's thoughts, then man is not free from God. If man is free from God in any sense or to any degree, then God does not control everything.

Vincent Cheung

#3. Divine sovereignty entails four biblical truths: (1) God knows all things, (2) He controls all things, (3) He is free from all things, and (4) He is holy and righteous in all things.

Kenneth Keathley

#4. The Bible does not teach both divine sovereignty and human freedom, but it teaches both divine sovereignty and human responsibility.

Vincent Cheung

#5. Divine sovereignty is not a substitute for human responsibility.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#6. Religion based on divine sovereignty is religion for God's sake. Religion is for God, for whom all things exist. Whereas all forms of Arminianistic Christianity make man the final arbiter of his own salvation, in Calvinism, God saves sovereignly, immediately, whom He wills.

Henry R. Van Til

#7. Always turn to God in the midst of your struggle and view people who offended you as an instruments of divine sovereignty.

John C. Maxwell

#8. No doctrine of Redemption that in any way casts the slightest shadow over the high mountain of Divine Sovereignty can be tolerated for a moment.

Arthur W. Pink

#9. The suffering of the Christian or anyone else in this world is never ultimately an accident. All suffering is within the pale of divine sovereignty. All suffering comes within the broader context of the sovereignty of God.

R.C. Sproul

#10. Opposition to divine sovereignty is essentially atheism.

Charles Spurgeon

#11. You only find what you are looking for, really, if the truth be known.

Mary Leakey

#12. I thought we were making a nice little movie. That's how it was regarded by everyone else, too.

Arthur Hiller

#13. You may break the clods, you may sow your seeds, but what can you do without the rain? As absolutely needful is the divine blessing.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#14. That eye which sees anything good in the creature is a blind eye; that eye which fancies it can discern anything in man, or anything in anything he can do to win the Divine favor, is as yet stone blind to the Truth of God, and needs to be lanced and cut, and the cataract of pride removed from it!

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#15. Fiery and sweet, all at the same time. A flame in the dark, lighting my way.

Richelle Mead

#16. Give me one good reason why I shouldn't chop him into worthless-bastard-themed confetti.
Isabelle Lightwood

Cassandra Clare

#17. Martin Freeman as [Bilbo] is just a revelation.

James Nesbitt

#18. Here's what you should say [to an investor]: 'this is what my company does' It's that simple. What you're trying to do is get potential investors to fantasize about how your product or service will make a boatload of money. They can't fantasize if they don't know what you do.

Guy Kawasaki

#19. You were the vampire in my dream. My perfect one.

Anne Rice

#20. In brokenness comes beauty, divine fragility.

MercyMe

#21. God determine the appointed time and boundaries of influence for every man.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. Religion is like having children, or taking medicine, or eating, or any of a thousand other perfectly rational human activities: Taken in small doses, it has much to recommend it. One need only avoid going overboard.

Jack McDevitt

#23. I'd love to play a femme fatale in a film noir. I'm thinking of one of those roles that Lauren Bacall or Bette Davis might have played. What I wouldn't like is to suddenly find myself being cast, as many senior actresses seem to be, as the abbess in a convent.

Diana Quick

#24. The glorious riches of God are inexhaustible.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#25. Eternity exist in a holy time.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#26. Not until we have become humble and teachable, standing in awe of God's holiness and sovereignty ... a cknowledging our own littleness, distrusting our own thoughts, and willing to have our minds turned upside down, can divine wisdom become ours.

J.I. Packer

#27. You almost had me forget why I came here. It doesn't matter who you are, brother. The only thing that matters is what you've done.

Ben Ireland

#28. 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

#29. Everyone always noticed Ashley. She was like a flashing neon sign for anyone with an ounce of testosterone.

Nicholas Sparks