Top 100 Sovereign God Quotes
#1. Satan can do only what the sovereign God allows him to do.
R.C. Sproul
#2. 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
#3. It is altogether proper for people to recognize a sovereign God.
Roy Moore
#4. Worry is momentary atheism crying out for correction by trust in a good, sovereign God. Suffering breaks self-reliance.
Randy Alcorn
#5. The sovereignty of God is the one impregnable rock to which the suffering human heart must cling. The circumstances surrounding our lives are no accident: they may be the work of evil, but that evil is held firmly within the mighty hand of our sovereign God. - Margaret Clarkson
Randy Alcorn
#6. If God is not sovereign, God is not God.
R.C. Sproul
#7. 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
#8. Every breath I take is a testimony that my God is alive and He's a sovereign God.
Euginia Herlihy
#9. Worry springs from not being convinced of a sovereign God's absolute love for you. Worry disappears when you realize that God loves you unfailingly and will let nothing interrupt His plans for your good.
J.D. Greear
#10. 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
#11. True faith is trusting the sovereign God even when we don't understand.
Hank Hanegraaff
#12. Again, we are humble because we know we are not the power to change the heart. But we are obedient because we know we are the necessary means ordained by our sovereign God by which the light comes to those in darkness.
Mark Dever
#13. Human beings, regenerate or unregenerate, have neither the right nor the competence to dictate to a sovereign God how He is to be worshipped.
Joseph C. Morecraft III
#14. As children of a sovereign God, we are never victims of our circumstances.
Charles Stanley
#15. Do all things without grumbling. Why? You have a sovereign God who is on your side, who works everything together for your good.
John Piper
#16. The sovereign God of the universe said, "This one is Mine." Over and against all the prerequisites I had invented for placing my faith in God, the Father had placed His Spirit in me.
Matt Chandler
#17. 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
#18. When we worry, we are telling God, "You are neither trustworthy nor in control, so I need to worry and scheme as I take matters into my own hands." In this way unbelief drives worry, for it is impossible to worry when we are trusting in the provision of our sovereign God.
James MacDonald
#19. No matter what came next, Daniel rested safely in the grip of his Sovereign God.
Lynn Austin
#20. Times and seasons can change but God's word and His existence will live forever because He's a sovereign God.
Euginia Herlihy
#21. I believe the sovereign God of the universe justifies us freely, and then we are called to run with him in sanctification.
Matt Chandler
#22. Our differences will also show up from time to time, underscoring the uniqueness of our personal endowments, the variety of our experiences, and the creativity of our sovereign God.
J. Grant Howard
#23. The sovereign God wants to be loved for Himself and honoured for Himself, but that is only part of what He wants. The other part is that He wants us to know that when we have Him we have everything - we have all the rest.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#24. If the God you believe in is not a sovereign God, then you really don't believe in God.
R.C. Sproul
#25. This is why it is often called sovereign grace: it raises the dead. The dead do not raise themselves. God does by his grace. And it is this "glorious grace" that will be praised for all eternity.
John Piper
#26. It is in those times of hopeless chaos when the sovereign hand of God is most likely to be seen.
Thomas Chalmers
#27. God sovereignly controls every detail of your life, which should be a great comfort to you.
Jim George
#28. The one God has chosen unconditionally he keeps invincibly. Being and staying a believer is decisively of sovereign grace.
John Piper
#29. We Recognize No Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus!
John Adams
#30. But God always has a holy surprise up His sovereign sleeve. And when we pray, God throws surprise parties!
Mark Batterson
#31. 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
#32. If Affection is made the absolute sovereign of a human life the seeds will germinate. Love, having become a god, becomes a demon.
C.S. Lewis
#33. God does not rule by the consent of His subjects but by His sovereign authority. His reign extends over me whether I vote for Him or not.
R.C. Sproul
#34. The sovereign electing grace of God chooses us to repentance, to faith, and afterwards to holiness of living, to Christian service, to zeal, and to devotion.
Charles Spurgeon
#35. When God became a Savior to the elect, He did not cease to be a Sovereign.
Thomas Blake
#36. The God of metaphysics is but an idea. But the God of religion, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sovereign Judge of actions and thoughts, is a power.
Joseph Joubert
#37. Listen to the sermon preached to you by the flowers, the trees, the shrubs, the sky, and the whole world. Notice how they preach to you a sermon full of love, of praise of God, and how they invite you to glorify the sublimity of that sovereign Artist who has given them being.
Paul Of The Cross
#38. Bitterness arises in our hearts when we do not trust in the sovereign rule of God in our lives
Jerry Bridges
#39. The people are the source of governmental power. Along with many religious people, Latter-day Saints affirm that God gave the power to the people, and the people consented to a constitution that delegated certain powers to the government ... The sovereign power is in the people.
Dallin H. Oaks
#40. We do not make friends with God; God makes friends with us, bringing us to know him by making his love known to us ... The word know, when used of God in this way, is a sovereign-grace word, pointing to God's initiative in loving, choosing, redeeming, calling and preserving.
J.I. Packer
#41. Unfortunately, some Christians are guilty of throwing out an equivalent sentiment when they play the "God is sovereign" card as a way to trump every evil that comes your way.
Tullian Tchividjian
#42. Because God is sovereignly in control, accidents are just incidents in God's good plan for you.
Rick Warren
#43. We have nothing to fear, because God is sovereign.
David Platt
#44. God either rules as sovereign in interpretation over *all* areas of life or none.
Greg L. Bahnsen
#45. We unjustly defraud God of his right, unless each of us lives and dies in dependence on His sovereign pleasure.
John Calvin
#46. Evil Rulers Are Never Beyond The Bounds of God's Sovereign Will
Jerry Bridges
#47. God is not harsh; He is holy. He is not selfish; He is sovereign. He is not unfeeling; He is all-knowing. Like David, we need to come to know Him, and respect Him; and, like David, we will love Him more.
Beth Moore
#48. If God is truly sovereign, and I believe He is, then whatever stage we are in in life is exactly where God has allowed us to be.
Kathy Troccoli
#49. To say that God's sovereignty is limited by man's freedom is to make man sovereign.
R.C. Sproul
#50. If you can explain what is happening in a church, apart from the sovereign act of God, it is not revival.
David Lloyd-Jones
#51. The realization of God's presence is the one sovereign remedy against temptation.
Francois Fenelon
#52. We're going to capture the lost sovereignty of our country ... And when we get there, my friends, we will only be obedient to one sovereign America, and that is the sovereign of God Himself and His laws.
Pat Buchanan
#53. God is love (1 John 4:8, 16) and God is sovereign (Acts 4:24). Those biblical truths must define our response to every circumstance in life.
David Jeremiah
#54. Only a misunderstanding of Calvin's theology could prompt the question Why pray if God is sovereign? The Reformer himself might turn the question back on us: Why pray if God isn't sovereign?
Michael S. Horton
#55. It is our confidence in the sovereign grace of God that gives us any hope of success in missions.
Kevin DeYoung
#56. God is unchanging in His love. He loves you. He has a plan for your life. Don't let the newspaper headlines frighten you. God is still sovereign; He's still on the throne.
Billy Graham
#57. The very center and core of the whole Bible is the doctrine of the grace of God - the grace of God which depends not one whit upon anything that is in man, but is absolutely undeserved, resistless and sovereign. J. Gresham Machen
Justin S. Holcomb
#58. God's kingdom" in the preaching of Jesus refers not to postmortem destiny, not to our escape from this world into another one, but to God's sovereign rule coming "on earth as it is in heaven.
N. T. Wright
#60. In God, holiness and righteousness are the characteristics of the one Sublime, Sovereign Being, to whom no one can issue a command or lay down a law. In
C.F.W. Walther
#61. Our first postulate is that because God is God, He does as He pleases, only as He pleases, always as He pleases; that His great concern is the accomplishment of His own pleasure and the promotion of His own glory that He is the Supreme Being, and therefore Sovereign of the universe.
Arthur W. Pink
#62. Prayer is the key of perfection and of sovereign happiness; it is the efficacious means of getting rid of all vices and of acquiring all virtues; for the way to become perfect is to live in the presence of God.
Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon
#63. Contentment is accepting God's sovereign control over all of life's circumstances.
Linda Dillow
#64. The kingdom of God which is within us consists in our willing whatever God wills, always, in every thing, and without reservation; and thus His kingdom comes; for His will is then done as it is in heaven, since we will nothing but what is dictated by His sovereign pleasure.
Francois Fenelon
#65. If there is a single event in all the universe that can occur outside of God's sovereign control, then we cannot trust Him. God is never surprised, caught off guard, or frustrated by change."4
Chris Lautsbaugh
#66. God regenerates (John 1:13) according to His will (James 1:18) through the sovereign work of the Holy Spirit (John 3:5) when a person believes (John 1:12) the gospel as revealed in the Word of God (1 Peter 1:23).
Charles C. Ryrie
#67. No sinner has the right to say with impunity, 'God you owe me grace.' If grace is owed, it is not grace. The very essence of grace is its voluntary character. God reserves to himself the sovereign, absolute right to give grace to some and withhold that grace from others.
R.C. Sproul
#68. If God does what you think he should do, trust him. If God doesn't do what you think he should do, trust him. If you pray and believe God for a miracle and he does it, trust him. If your worst nightmare comes true, believe he is sovereign. Believe he is good.
Craig Groeschel
#69. Our duty is found in the revealed will of God in the Scriptures. Our trust must be in the sovereign will of God as He works in the ordinary circumstances of our daily lives for our good and His glory.
Jerry Bridges
#71. God is absolutely sovereign, but his sovereignty never mitigates human responsibility.
D. A. Carson
#72. The real challenge of Christian living is not to eliminate every uncomfortable circumstance from our lives, but to trust our sovereign, wise, good, and powerful God in the midst of every situation.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#73. 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
#74. Salvation and sanctification are the work of God's sovereign grace; our work as His disciples is to disciple lives until they are wholly yielded to God.
Oswald Chambers
#75. God loves people because he has chosen to love them - as Charles Wesley put it, "he hath loved us, he hath loved us, because he would love" (an echo of Deut 7:7-8) - and no reason for his love can be given except his own sovereign good pleasure.
J.I. Packer
#76. We must settle in our hearts that no matter what, God is sovereign.
Beth Moore
#77. So make up your mind that God is an infinite Sovereign, and has the right to do as He pleases with His own, and He may not explain to you a thousand things which may puzzle your reason in His dealings with you
Hudson Taylor
#78. There's a strong victim mentality in my generation. I think it's spiritual laziness. They will agree that God is sovereign over all, but then they will say, "Well, I wish he would sovereignly take away my lust issue." There's just not a lot of fortitude, not a lot of fight in them.
Matt Chandler
#79. If God is sovereign, then it is impossible for civil government to be neutral on issues of law. All law is based in some religious code.
Randall Terry
#80. Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.
R.C. Sproul
#81. In emphasizing God's love over his holiness
his set-apartness as a sovereign, omniscient authority
we end up believing that his central concern is our individual happiness.
Leslie Leyland Fields
#82. Because God is sovereign, He is able to answer. Because He is faithful to His promises, He will answer.
Jerry Bridges
#83. We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come.
Samuel Adams
#84. For God to be holy does not just mean He is without error. It means He is without equal. May it not be said of any one of us that there is not respect for the author of the universe. He is sovereign over all nature, over all nations and over every single one of our lives.
David Platt
#85. 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
#86. You must remember your God is sovereign and all things come to pass by his own design. The hardest thing I have seen humans struggle with in trusting that whatever happens, no matter what the enemy sends your way, your God is still God, and he desires only good for you and your loved ones." Emily
Jen Gentry
#87. It doesn't take long in marriage bedore you realize that your spouse doesn't share your instincts. At that point, either you worship God as sovereign and celebrate the different way of looking at the world that your spouse has blessed you with, or you dishonor him by trying to rewrite his story.
Paul David Tripp
#88. in view of God's sovereign control, God will accomplish his purposes in our lives even when we make decisions we later regret.
Edward T. Welch
#89. God was under no constraint, no obligation, no necessity to create. That He chose to do so was purely a sovereign act on His part, caused by nothing outside Himself, determined by nothing but His own mere good pleasure.
Arthur W. Pink
#90. 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
#91. I wrote this poem called "The Calvinist" to capture a glimpse of God's sovereign intersection with the life of a sinful man. There is no part of life where the greatness of God does not penetrate deeply. I want to help you feel that.
John Piper
#92. God involves us in his missions not because He needs us, but because He loves us. And in His mercy He has invited us to be involved in His sovereign design for the spread of the gospel to the ends of the earth.
David Platt
#93. Any conception of a god that is less than sovereign is an idol and no god at all.
R.C. Sproul
#94. Easter is about Jesus: the Jesus who announced God's saving, sovereign kingdom ...
N. T. Wright
#97. 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
#98. The kingdom of God is not of the people, by the people, or for the people. It is a kingdom ruled by a King, and God does not rule by the consent of His subjects but by His sovereign authority. His reign extends over me whether I vote for Him or not.
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R.C. Sproul
#99. We cannot enjoy peace in this world unless we are ready to yield to the will of God in respect of death. Our times are in His hand, at His sovereign disposal. We must accept that as best.
John Owen
#100. There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God's sovereign providence.
R.C. Sproul
