#sovereignty

Sovereignty was not an issue in this campaign. The sovereignty numbers that were there before the campaign are still there. Sovereignty is as alive as it was. But there is work to do to convince Quebecers. ↗

— Pauline Marois

#before #campaign #convince #issue #numbers

Sovereignty is as necessary as ever. ↗

— Pauline Marois

#necessary #sovereignty

Yachts are the closest a commoner can get to sovereignty. ↗

— Charles Simonyi

#commoner #get #sovereignty #yachts

(God's) nature, identity, and overarching purposes are no doubt unchanging. But his intentions with regard to many particular matters that concern individual human beings are not. This does not diminish him. Far from it. He would be a lesser God if he could not change his intentions when he thinks it is appropriate. ↗

— Dallas Willard

#sovereignty-of-god #change

The logic of the Bible says: Act according to God's "will of command," not according to his "will of decree." God's "will of decree" is whatever comes to pass. "If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that" (James 4:15). God's "will of decree" ordained that his Son be betrayed (Luke 22:22), ridiculed (Isaiah 53:3), mocked (Luke 18:32), flogged (Matthew 20:19), forsaken (Matthew 26:31), pierced (John 19:37), and killed (Mark 9:31). But the Bible teaches us plainly that we should not betray, ridicule, mock, flog, forsake, pierce, or kill innocent people. That is God's "will of command." We do not look at the death of Jesus, clearly willed by God, and conclude that killing Jesus is good and that we should join the mockers. ↗

— John Piper

#christian-living #god #sovereignty #death

Guidance, like all God's acts of blessing under the covenant of grace, is a sovereign act. Not merely does God will to guide us in the sense of showing us his way, that we may tread it; he wills also to guide us in the more fundamental sense of ensuring that, whatever happens, whatever mistakes we may make, we shall come safely home. Slippings and strayings there will be, no doubt, but the everlasting arms are beneath us; we shall be caught, rescued, restored. This is God's promise; this is how good he is. ↗

— J.I. Packer

#goodness-of-god #guidance #perseverance #sovereignty-of-god #faith

Our duty is found in the revealed will of God in the Scriptures. Our trust must be in the sovereign will of God as He works in the ordinary circumstances of our daily lives for our good and His glory. ↗

— Jerry Bridges

#sovereignty-of-god #works #faith

Behind calvary is the throne of heaven. ↗

— James S. Stewart

#faith

It is not that God is the spectator and sharer of our present life, howsoever important that is; but rather that we are the reverent listeners and participants in God’s action in the sacred story, the history of the Christ on earth. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#faith

God often grants in a moment what He has long denied. ↗

— Thomas à Kempis

#patience #sovereignty-of-god #faith