Sovereign Quotes
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No sinner has the right to say with impunity, 'God you owe me grace.' If grace is owed, it is not grace. The very essence of grace is its voluntary character. God reserves to himself the sovereign, absolute right to give grace to some and withhold that grace from others.
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Opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects.
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God does not rule by the consent of His subjects but by His sovereign authority. His reign extends over me whether I vote for Him or not.
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It is hard to imagine that, having downgraded the US, S & P will not follow suit on at least one of the other members of the dwindling club of sovereign AAAs. If this were to materialise and involve a country like France, for example, it could complicate the already fragile efforts by Europe to rescue countries in its periphery.
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Any conception of a god that is less than sovereign is an idol and no god at all.
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In Reformed theology, if God is not sovereign over the entire created order, then he is not sovereign at all. The term sovereignty too easily becomes a chimera. If God is not sovereign, then he is not God.
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In the meantime, what is lost is any sense that the Palestinian resistance to Israeli colonial rule is waged from a situation of occupation or expulsion, that there is a military order that controls the boundaries of what would be a sovereign Palestinian state, that the land on which that state is now thinkable has been radically diminished by an ongoing practice of land confiscation and appropriation.
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A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations...is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism.
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Until we realize that our money power is our sovereign power we cannot act as sovereigns
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If God is not sovereign, God is not God.
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My words have an origin. My deeds have a sovereign. Truly, because people do not understand this, they do not understand me.
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If the God you believe in is not a sovereign God, then you really don't believe in God.
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God is sovereign. His grace cannot be tamed.
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Egypt is a sovereign nation.
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Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.
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One has to act with respect, just as with any sovereign government
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A citizen should render to the state all the services he can as soon as the sovereign demands them.
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The true sovereign is not the American president nor the English king, but the Lord of the Second Advent.
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Maddie took the top of her egg off. The hot bright yolk was like summer sun breaking through cloud. The first daffodil in the snow. A gold sovereign wrapped in a white silk handkerchief. She dipped her spoon in it and licked it.
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The son of Saturn gave The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls Upon the Sovereign One's immortal head Were shaken, and with them the mighty mount, Olympus trembled.
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The sovereigns of the earth do not always grant audience readily; on the contrary, the King of Heaven, hidden under the eucharistic veils, is ready to receive anyone...
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People ask me, 'Why pray if God is sovereign?' I respond, 'Why pray if He isn't?
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Pride erects a little kingdom of its own, and acts as sovereign in it.
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The confidence with which a Sovereign is invested, is solid only when it is sanctioned by the suffrages of the people, who clothed him with the supreme magistracy.
