Quotes about Sovereignty
God is sovereign over the nations. He is sovereign over the officials of our own government in all their actions as they affect us, directly or indirectly. He is sovereign over the officials of government in lands where our brothers and sisters in Christ suffer for their faith in Him. And He is sovereign over the nations where every attempt is made to stamp out true Christianity. In all of these areas, we can and must trust God.
— Jerry Bridges
rejoice because we believe He is in control of those circumstances and is at work through them for our ultimate good.
— Jerry Bridges
But God has not walked away from the day-to-day control of His creation. Certainly He has established physical laws by which He governs the forces of nature, but those laws continuously operate according to His sovereign will.
— Jerry Bridges
He permits, for reasons known only to Himself, people to act contrary to and in defiance of His revealed will. But He never permits them to act contrary to His sovereign will.
— Jerry Bridges
And if God permits it, it is because the ungodly action is part of God's plan for him. No one can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not decreed it (see Lamentations 3:37).
— Jerry Bridges
For the LORD your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate in order to give him into your hands, as he has now done" (Deuteronomy 2:30).
— Jerry Bridges
But rather that He works in His mysterious way through their wills to accomplish His purposes.
— Jerry Bridges
Though the absolute sovereignty of God over our lives is consistently taught throughout Scripture, it is not the uncaring sovereignty of a despot but of a God who is just as loving and caring as He is sovereign. But we have to by faith believe that truth when His ways are different from that which we desire.
— Jerry Bridges
George MacDonald: "I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of. For to have been thought about—born in God's thoughts—and then made by God is the dearest, grandest, most precious thing in all thinking.
— Jerry Bridges
So while the Bible asserts both God's sovereignty and people's freedom and moral responsibility, it never attempts to explain their relationship.
— Jerry Bridges
How futile and even arrogant for us to seek to determine what God is doing in a particular event or circumstance.
— Jerry Bridges
The relationship of the sovereign will of God to the freedom and moral responsibility of people is one of those mysteries.
— Jerry Bridges