There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry: 'Mine!'
At the time the Dutch Reformed Church was the official state religion of the Netherlands.
We shall export our revolution to the whole world. Until the cry ‘There is no God but God’ resounds over the whole world, there will be struggle.
By predestination we mean the eternal decree of God, by which He determined with Himself whatever He wished to happen with regard to every man
We shall export our revolution to the whole world. Until the cry 'There is no God but God' resounds over the whole world, there will be struggle…. Establishing the Islamic state world-wide belong to the great goals of the revolution.
Fundamentalist religion is the most pervasive vision of central planning, though many fundamentalists may oppose human central planning as a usurpation or "playing God.This is consistent with the fundamentalist vision of an unconstrained God and a highly constrained man.
Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else.
If there is one maverick molecule in all the universe, then God is not sovereign. And if God is not sovereign, He is not God.
Safe?” said Mr. Beaver; “don’t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.
Only God is able to humble us without humiliating us and to exalt us without flattering us.
The devil has no power over us only as we permit him. The moment we revolt at anything which comes from God, the devil takes power.
Evil Rulers Are Never Beyond The Bounds of God's Sovereign Will
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: / He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored.
Our Father in heaven, Reveal who you are. Set the world right; Do what's best - As above, so below. Keep us alive with three square meals. Keep us forgiven with you and forgiving others. Keep us safe from ourselves and the Devil. You're in charge!
Satan can do only what the sovereign God allows him to do.
God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.
Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help?
Man is nothing; he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God worketh in him" and "you dishonour God by denying election. You plainly make salvation depend, not on God's 'free grace' but on Man's 'free will.'
God made man to be free. Anybody can do whatever they want.
God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid.
If God did not act first, no one would be saved.
But the God of the Bible is not only One, but the only possible One.
God will not hold us responsible to understand the mysteries of election, predestination, and the divine sovereignty. The best and safest way to deal with these truths is to raise our eyes to God and in deepest reverence say, "0 Lord, Thou knowest." Those things belong to the deep and mysterious Profound of God's omniscience. Prying into them may make theologians, but it will never make saints.
Classical philosophical theism maintained the ontological distinction between God and creative world that is necessary for any genuine theism by conceiving them to be of different substances, with particular attributes predicated of each.
'God' is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and 'Deity' is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.
God overrules all mutinous accidents, brings them under His laws of fate, and makes them all serviceable to His purpose.