171 Quotes About Sovereignty-of-god

That vague and wandering opinion of Deity is declared by an apostle to be ignorance of God:

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.

CS Lewis may make difficult questions accessible. I don't think he makes answers 'easy. – Debra Winger

Always, in Lincoln's mature theology, there is paradox. There is starting this, yet there is also tenderness; there is melancholy, yet there is also humor: there is moral law, yet there is also compassion. History is the scene of the working out God's justice, which we can never escape, but it is also the scene of the revelation of the everlasting mercy.

We are all theologians, either good ones or bad ones. I'd rather be a good one. Wouldn't you?

God, Lincoln believed, is seen more clearly events that in nature, though He maybe seen there also. It is a majestic thing, thought Lincoln, for a person to be RESPONSIBLE.

Behind Calvary's cross is the throne of heaven.

That which should distinguish the suffering of believers from unbelievers is the confidence that our suffering is under the control of an all-powerful and all-loving God. Our suffering has meaning and purpose in God's eternal plan, and He brings or allows to come into our lives only that which is for His glory and our good.

Only an Adams could convert naïveté into bravado.