171 Quotes About Sovereignty-of-god

We must worship God before we can reverence parents or women, or root out flunkeyism and money-worship.

Our culture says ‘live your dream,’ but God calls you to place your dream on His altar and to keep it there at all times. It is good to have hopes and dreams for the future, but we have no rights. There are no certainties. Any dream can become an idol and, if it does, God will bring it down.

God is the Lord of human history and of the personal history of every member of His redeemed family.

He also went invisible, yet stayed (such privilege hath omnipresence).

Most Christians salute the sovereignty of God but believe in the sovereignty of man.

God is more interested in declaring than explaining.

What defines us as Christians is not most profoundly that we have come to know him but that he took note of us and made us his own.

I wished God were like He used to be, a few notches lower. I wanted Him to be lofty enough to help me but not so uncontrollable. I longed for His warm presence, times when He seemed more… safe.

God is not an actor within the larger scheme of things. He is not a muscle-bound Jupiter, bullying the littler ones. He is the Author of the whole thing. We never ask how much of Hamlet's role was contributed by Hamlet, and how much by Shakespeare. That is not a question that can be answered with 70/30 or 50/50 or 90/10. The right answer is 100/100. Hamlet's actions are all Hamlet's and they are all Shakespeare's. Douglas Wilson