Sovereign Joy Quotes

#1. How sweet all at once it was for me to be rid of those fruitless joys which I had once feared to lose..! You drove them from me, you who are the true, the sovereign joy. You drove them from me and took their place ... O Lord my God, my Light, my Wealth, and my Salvation.

Augustine Of Hippo

#2. The key to Christian living is a thirst and hunger for God. And one of the main reasons people do not understand or experience the sovereignty of grace and the way it works through the awakening of sovereign joy is that their hunger and thirst for God is so small.

John Piper

#3. 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

#4. A willingness to let go of an old self and allow creative thoughts to remake a person into a better version of oneself requires an act of courage.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#5. We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.

Madeleine L'Engle

#6. Hmm. I think love is about loving all things, to treat each and every thing and every one as a sovereign being that's free to make its own choices.

Michael Sanders

#7. Women share this planet 50/ 50 and they are underrepresented
their potential astonishingly untapped.

Emma Watson

#8. This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded like snow in April, but in a little while I conquered my weakness and felt a pleasure I never knew before - that of doing as I willed.

Nikola Tesla

#9. This joy was a deep abiding peace, an assurance that God was sovereign. They didn't have to like what was happening. They merely had to trust that God knew what he was doing.

Tim LaHaye

#10. When you have kids, you instantly feel that you do not want to do them wrong. Those dads that go off to Florida and start a new life, I couldn't imagine that: seeing my kid once every Christmas, every three years. If I'm gone for six days it feels like too much.

Adam Carolla

#11. Find peace in where and what you are.

Christopher Paolini