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God's Sovereignty: Quotations from Burning Words

Even when the shadows of trial are falling around us, let us "pass through the cloud" with the sustaining motive - "All my wish, O God, is to please and glorify Thee!"— J. R. MACDUFF

God governs in the affairs of men; and if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, neither can a kingdom rise without His aid.— BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Thou art! directing, guiding all, Thou art! Direct my understanding then to Thee ; Control my spirit, guide my wandering heart : Though but an atom midst immensity. Can we outrun the heavens?— DERZHAVIN

God's will is the very perfection of all reason. -— EDWARD PAYSON

Converting grace puts God on the throne, and the world at His footstool; Christ in the heart, and the world under His feet.— JOSEPH ALLEINE

However wickedness outstrips men, it has no wings to fly from God.— SHAKSPEARE

Was it possible that Napoleon should win the battle of Waterloo? We answer, No! Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blucher? No! Because of God! For Bonaparte to conquer at Waterloo was not the law of the nineteenth century. It was time that this vast man should fall. He had been impeached before the Infinite! He had vexed God! Waterloo was not a battle. It was the change of front of the Universe!— VICTOR HUGO

It is a great truth, "God reigns," and therefore grace reigns through righteousness unto eternal life, by Jesus Christ our Lord; and, therefore, no sinner on earth need ever despair.— ICHABOD SPENCER

The moral government of God is a movement in a line onwards towards some grand consummation, in which the principles, indeed, are ever the same, but the developments are always new, in which, therefore, no experience of the past can indicate with certainty what new openings of truth, what new manifestations of goodness, what new phases of the moral heaven may appear.— MARK HOPKINS

The hand of God never tires, nor are its movements aimless. It makes all things subservient to its designs, and, at every turn, disappoints the calculations of man, causing the most insignificant events to expand to the mightiest consequences, while those that have the appearance of mountains vanish into nothing.— JOHN LANAHAN

Have faith! where'er thy bark is driven,— The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth,- Know this! God rules the host of heaven, The inhabitants of earth.— SCHILLER