Quotes on The Sovereignty of God

This week I've been talking about the Sovereignty of God. Here are some thought-provoking quotes which I found on the subject:



"The  Sovereignty of God is the biblical teaching that all things are under God's rule and control, and that nothing happens without His direction or permission, works not just some things but all things according to the counsel of His own will (see Ephesians 1:11). His purposes are all-inclusive and never thwarted (see Isaiah 46:11); nothing takes Him by surprise. The sovereignty of God is not merely that God has the power and right to govern all things, but that He does so, always and without exception. In other words, God is not merely sovereign de jure(in principle), but sovereign de facto (in practice)."

"When we grow careless of keeping our souls, then God recovers our taste of good things again by sharp crosses."

—Richard Sibbes

"As the wicked are hurt by the best things, so the godly are bettered by the worst."

—-William Jenkyn

"Divine sovereignty is not the sovereignty of a tyrannical Despot, but the exercised pleasure of One who is infinitely wise and good! Because God is infinitely wise He cannot err, and because He is infinitely righteous He will not do wrong. Here then is the preciousness of this truth. The mere fact itself that God's will is irresistible and irreversible fills me with fear, but once I realize that God wills only that which is good, my heart is made to rejoice."
-—Arthur W. Pink





"There are no evidence of being without God, since trials come from God. Job says, 'When He hath tried me.' He sees God in his afflictions. The devil actually wrought the trouble; but the Lord not only permitted it, but He had a design in it. Without the Divine concurrance, none of his afflictions could have happened. It was God that tried Job, and it is God that tries us. No trouble comes to us without Divine permission. All of the dogs of affliction are muzzled until God sets them free."
--Charles Haddon Spurgeon