Top 95 God S Sovereignty Quotes
#1. Many of us think in terms in parental determinism: 'If I push all the right buttons my kids are going to turn out OK.' I want to instill in myself and my people a wonderful dose, not of carelessness, but of God's sovereignty. He knows the hairs on your kids' heads.
Kevin DeYoung
#2. Men treat God's sovereignty as a theme for controversy, but in Scripture it is matter for worship.
J.I. Packer
#3. So though there are many things I would have done differently, I submit to God's sovereignty and His purpose in my life and I thank Him that He brought me the way He brought me and gave me what He gave me when He thought I could handle it.
T.D. Jakes
#4. A high view of God's sovereignty fuels death-defying devotion to global missions. Maybe another way to put it, people, and more specifically pastors, who believe that God's sovereign over all things will lead Christians to die for the sake of all peoples.
David Platt
#5. Human fallibility recognised, God's sovereignty trusted; these are also the only stable foundations for human beings in society.
Justin Welby
#6. [T]he single answer to the 'whys' in life is God's sovereignty.
Norma Gail
#7. Many Muslims in Saudi Arabia believe that the core values of Islam, namely acknowledgement of God's sovereignty and basic human equality before God, are themselves compatible with liberty, equality and free political choice.
Noah Feldman
#8. God's sovereignty does not negate our responsibility to pray, but rather makes it possible for us to pray with confidence.
Jerry Bridges
#9. In the Reformed tradition, a good deal of our stoicism and apathy rides like a parasite on the back of the doctrine of God's sovereignty and providence.
Toby J. Sumpter
#10. Parent to glorify God, not to get your child to behave. God's sovereignty is the foundation of parenting and His glory its highest purpose.
Linda J. Rice
#11. Satan cannot win. Why not? Because he has denied God's sovereignty and disobeyed God's law. But Moses was told explicitly, God's blessings come only from obedience. Satan will not win because he has abandoned God's tool of dominion, biblical law.
Gary North
#12. Keep in mind that God's sovereignty allows Him to even use that which is not cooperating with Him (the bad) in order to move things to where He wants them to go.
Tony Evans
#13. The person who loves his life will lose it: it could not be otherwise, for to love one's life is a fundamental denial of God's sovereignty, of God's rights, and a brazen elevation of self to the apogee of one's perception, and therefore an idolatrous focus on self, which is the heart of all sin
D. A. Carson
#14. 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
#15. Take a firm grasp on God's sovereignty and trust His love even when you don't understand His purpose.
Joyce Meyer
#16. This is the essence of God's sovereignty; His absolute independence to do as He pleases and His absolute control over the actions of all His creatures. No creature, person, or empire can either thwart His will or act outside the bounds of His will.
Jerry Bridges
#17. Alzheimer's disease is never an 'accident' in a marriage. It falls under the purview of God's sovereignty. In the case of someone with Alzheimer's, this means God's unconditional and sacrificial love has an opportunity to be even more gloriously displayed in a life together.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#18. What kind of a concept of God do we have that we would say that God is paralyzed by human choices? If His freedom is limited by our freedom, we are sovereign, not God. No, we are free, but God is even more free. This means that our freedom can never limit God's sovereignty.
R.C. Sproul
#19. The storms in my life have become workshops where I can practice my faith in God's sovereignty.
Jill Briscoe
#20. God's sovereignty is not in His right hand; God's sovereignty is not in His intellect; God's sovereignty is in His love.
Henry Ward Beecher
#21. What we do every time we pray is to confess our impotence and God's sovereignty.
J.I. Packer
#22. A consciousness of our powerlessness should cast us upon Him who has all power. Here then is where a vision and view of God's sovereignty helps, for it reveals His sufficiency and shows us our insufficiency.
Arthur W. Pink
#23. Edwards believed that God's sovereignty requires that He create the entire universe out of nothing at every moment.
Adrian Warnock
#24. Belief in God's sovereignty coupled with his promises to reward those who diligently seek him (Heb. 11:6) provides even more powerful incentive to pray.
Bryan Chapell
#25. First and Second Kings are not disinterested, flat historical works...They stress God's sovereignty over Israel and all other nations.
Paul R. House
#26. A young woman asked the great preacher Charles Spurgeon if it was possible to reconcile God's sovereignty and man's responsibility. "Young woman," said he. "You don't reconcile friends
Elisabeth Elliot
#27. But to call God "almighty" does cause problems for some. J.I. Packer says, "Men treat God's sovereignty as a theme for controversy, but in Scripture it is a matter of worship.
Raymond F. Cannata
#28. We count on God's mercy for our past mistakes, on God's love for our present needs, on God's sovereignty for our future.
Saint Augustine
#29. To say that God's sovereignty is limited by man's freedom is to make man sovereign.
R.C. Sproul
#30. There has been a wonderful alteration in my mind, in respect to the doctrine of God's sovereignty. ... The doctrine has very often appeared exceeding pleasant, bright and sweet. Absolute sovereignty is what I love to ascribe to God. JONATHAN EDWARDS
John Piper
#31. Learn to recognize God's sovereignty. Learn to rejoice in God's pleasure. This was Abraham's first lesson, namely that God, not himself, was the Source.
Watchman Nee
#32. Those who understand God's sovereignty have joy even in the midst of suffering, a joy reflected on their very faces, for they see that their suffering is not without purpose.
R.C. Sproul
#33. Part of facing the unknown requires dropping an anchor of faith into the depths of God's sovereignty.
James Stuart Bell Jr.
#34. We can always hope and pray diligently for a miracle. If, in God's sovereignty, He chooses to accomplish His purposes another way, let it not be that we have not because we asked not (James 4:2) or that we have not because we believed not (Matt. 9:29).
Beth Moore
#35. Of all the doctrines of the Bible none is so offensive to human nature as the doctrine of God's sovereignty.
J.C. Ryle
#36. Anger and bitterness are two noticeable signs of being focused on self and not trusting God's sovereignty in your life. When you believe that God causes all things to work together for good to those who belong to Him and love Him, you can respond to trials with joy instead of anger or bitterness.
John C. Broger
#37. I learned very early that people need to have a good grasp of God's goodness and God's sovereignty.
Matt Chandler
#38. There is no broader way to apostasy than to reject God's sovereignty in all things concerning the revelation of himself and our obedience ...
John Owen
#39. 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
#40. If my words don't flow out of a heart that rests in God's control, sovereignty, then they come out of the heart that seeks control so I can get what I want.
Mark Driscoll
#41. If you are not there for other people, do not expect them to be there for you. In many a case one might conclude that this is part of God's sovereign justice. His grace, however, is that He Himself will always be there for you, no matter what.
Criss Jami
#42. What happens when we acknowledge the sovereignty and power of God without trusting in His goodness and faithfulness? A pitcher who saw God's power behind his extremely unlikely rise to the big leagues wondered if, at any difficulty he encountered there, God might be taking his ability away.
Michael Lewis
#43. Adam's role was to assert and enjoy his sovereignty under God, cultivating the garden into an expanding paradise and protecting it from all harm.
Raymond C. Ortlund Jr.
#44. My decision (for Christ) was not so important. I was the object rather than the subject in this affair. I was decided upon.
C.S. Lewis
#45. Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help?
C.S. Lewis
#46. In American religion, as in ancient Gnosticism, there is almost no sense of God's difference from us - in other words, his majesty, sovereignty, self-existence, and holiness. God is my buddy, my inmost experience, or the power source for my living my best life now.
Michael S. Horton
#47. Miraculous things are often little more than natural things sped up. - C.S. Lewis
Luke Holzmann
#48. His (Lincoln's) patriotism was saved from idolatry by the overwhelming sense of the sovereignty of God.
Elton Trueblood
#49. If you and I are to appropriate God's grace in our times of need, we must see His sovereignty ultimately ruling in all the circumstances of our lives. And when those circumstances are difficult, disappointing, or humiliating, we must humble ourselves under His mighty hand.
Jerry Bridges
#50. God's will is like a jigsaw puzzle, you won't be able to see the whole picture until all the pieces are together.
Danny L. Deaube
#51. 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
#53. God sat over the dark nothing and wrote you and me specifically into the story, and He put us in specifically with the sunsets in the rainstorms as though to say, Enjoy your place in My story, the very beauty of it means it's not about you, and in time that will give you comfort.
Donald Miller
#54. God can make good use of all that happens, but the loss is real.
C.S. Lewis
#55. Pain is holy ground in a person's life.
Jason Gray
#56. If there is a single circumstance that can occur outside of God's control, then God is not God, and He cannot be trusted. That's what sovereignty means - God is God, no one else is, and He has absolute control.
Justin Buzzard
#57. There is a certain mysticism in the Christian's affirmation of the physical universe. There is a confidence that whatever is discovered conforms with Jesus Christ and is a manifestation of His will.
Gene Edward Veith Jr.
#58. That's the excitement in obedience, finding out later what God had in mind.
Brother Andrew
#59. When we lose sight of God we become hard and dogmatic. We hurl our own petitions at God's throne and dictate to Him as to what we wish Him to do. We do not worship God, nor do we seek to form the mind of Christ. If we are hard towards God, we will become hard towards other people.
Oswald Chambers
#61. You have the chief spark of your health's fire, for you have true knowledge of the hand that guides the universe.
Boethius
#62. The greatness of the man's power is the measure of his surrender.
William Booth
#64. If you have a religion it must be cosmic.
C.S. Lewis
#66. Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.
Martin Luther
#68. 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
#69. John Quincy Adams resolved to the discipline of rejecting argument for argument's sake would he sees that a fellow cabinet member is trying to draw him in to debating proposals the president will already reject.
Paul C. Nagel
#70. What is most decisive is God's Joy Project is not that we fully grasp it, but that our sovereign God fully grasps us.
Tony Reinke
#71. It is not that God is the spectator and sharer of our present life, howsoever important that is; but rather that we are the reverent listeners and participants in God's action in the sacred story, the history of the Christ on earth.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#72. (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
#73. Granted, God is sovereign and can speak as he pleases - through a proof text, a poem, or Balaam's donkey. But we do not regularly seek out donkeys to tell us how to live.
Craig S. Keener
#75. It is a self-evident truth that a person who truly prays and seeks God's wisdom in life recognizes the sovereignty of God and is committed to seeking God's wisdom in life's important choices.
Ravi Zacharias
#76. You'll not fulfill God's will for your life accidentally. It doesn't come to pass through fate or the sovereignty of God.
Paul Silway
#77. When we first come to faith in Christ, we often think it was simply of our own choosing. Only later do we realize we would have never taken that step of faith apart from His grace drawing us near to Him.
Dillon Burroughs
#78. God is lovingly guiding our lives, and we can be confident of His authority over any situation we may face. He never allows anything to happen without a reason.
Teresa Santoski
#79. God's will is like a jigsaw puzzle until you put all the pieces together, you won't be able to see the whole picture.
Danny L. Deaube
#80. 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
#82. Behind Calvary's cross is the throne of heaven.
James Stewart
#84. God gives strength to the weak.
God grace is the power for godly living.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. I believe we best say yes to God's glory and sovereignty by saying no to Calvinism.
Austin Fischer
#88. God determine the appointed time and boundaries of influence for every man.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#89. [For the genuine believer] There are moments in life when God's pursuit of us seems like that of a persistent mosquito, constantly buzzing around our heads and causing us pain, and we are utterly powerless to shake him off.
Ian M. Duguid
#90. All men of God must take forth the banner of truth, and once more valiantly proclaim the magnificent sovereignty of God in man's regeneration. May such preaching ring from pulpits today.
Steven J. Lawson
#91. James warns against the pride of presumption in speaking of
the simplest plans in life without a due submission to the overarching
sovereignty of God over the day's agenda. Man's plans might be interrupted by God's decision to take the life he gave.
John Piper
#92. Men are not generally sufficiently aware of the distinction between the law of God and his purpose; they are apt to suppose, that as the temper of the sinner is contrary to the one, so the outrages of the sinner are able to defeat the other; than which nothing can be more false.
John Witherspoon
#93. God's movement is often abrupt and unsettling rather than predictable and settling.
Michael Joseph Brown
#95. God is a supreme being.
God is a great God of wonders.
God is love and life
God is faithful to His promises.
God is all powerful and mighty.
Lailah Gifty Akita
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