Quotes about Sovereignty

We never pray against our government or call down curses on them. Instead, we have learned that God is in control both of our own lives and the government we live under. God has used China's government for His own purposes, molding and shaping His children as He sees fit. Instead of focusing our prayers against any political system, we pray that regardless of what happens to us, we will be pleasing to God.

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

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.

Do all things without grumbling. Why? You have a sovereign God who is on your side, who works everything together for your good.

My real soul...? It's real only when it's independent...

No hay nada que pueda arrebatar a un hombre su libertad, salvo otros hombres.

Redeem your mind from the hockshops of authority.

Rule with the heart of a servant. Serve with the heart of a king.

God does not love us because we are hard or easy to love, He loves us because He is God.

When we say "Thy will be done," do we say it with a sigh? If so, we have never realized that the character of God is holy love; nothing can ever happen outside His purposeful will.

we will stand amazed to see the topside of the tapestry and how God beautifully embroidered each circumstance into a pattern for our good and His glory.

Prayer is subversive activity. It involves a more or less open act of defiance against any claim by the current regime.... [As we pray,] slowly but surely, not culture, not family, not government, not job, not even the tyrannous self can stand against the quiet power and creative influence of God's sovereignty.