Encouraging Quotes on God’s Sovereignty

“Let us grant that God can do some things which we cannot understand.” (Augustine)

“This is my Father’s world: / O let me ne’er forget / That though the wrong seems oft so strong, / God is the ruler yet.” (Maltbie Babcock)

“To submit to a Creator who is too wise to err and too good to be unkind should not be hard.” (Charles Spurgeon)

“I am particularly conscious of the Christian’s right to expect events to be exactly timed for good. ‘As for God, His way is perfect.’” (Jim Elliott) 

“The first act of divine sovereign pleasure concerning us was the choosing of us from all eternity unto all holiness and happiness. This was done when we were not, when we had no contrivances of our own. And shall we not now put all our temporary concerns into the same hand?” (John Owen)

“But it is God’s right to decide what best serves His own glory.” (John Calvin)

“We may then be easy when we resolve that whatever pleases God shall please us.” (Matthew Henry)

“They who take away providence, though they acknowledge God in words, in fact deny him.” (Cicero)

“The Lord Jesus makes no mistakes in managing His friends’ affairs. He orders all their concerns with perfect wisdom: all things happen to them at the right time, and in the right way. He gives them as much of sickness and as much of health, as much of poverty and as much of riches, as much of sorrow and as much of joy, as He sees their souls require. He leads them by the right way to bring them to the city of habitation… He mixes their bitterest cups like a wise physician, and takes care that they have not a drop too little or too much. His people often misunderstand his dealings; they are silly enough to fancy their course of life might have been better ordered: but in the resurrection-day they will thank God that not their will, but Christ’s was done.” (J.C. Ryle)

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