Great faith is not believing that God will heal, or restore; Great faith is believing that God is God.
Sovereign
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
No frost can freeze providence.
Kris Vallotton
Some would question, Isn’t God in control? He is in charge, but He is not in control. If God was in absolute control of planet Earth, there would be no sin, no death, no sickness, no child abuse, no murder, no hatred, and the list continues. God is in charge of all things, but He has left you in control. In Psalm 115:16, we read that “The heavens are the heavens of the Lord, but the earth He has given to the sons of men.”
Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.
Was God absentmindedly doodling in creation – the way we do, sketching out houses and stick people to amuse ourselves when we are bored? No, the universe shows every sign of having been created on purpose. Did God tell himself he had to create or else he couldn’t be God? No, God was free either to create or not to create. He is sovereign. It was up to him whether to make a universe.
Warren Wiersbe
When the news of the day upsets me, I pause and worship the eternal sovereign God who is never surprised or caught unprepared. This keeps me from fretting and getting discouraged, and it helps to keep my life in balance.
Katherine Walden
Nothing catches God by surprise and no circumstance is beyond his power to redeem.
Paul Sailhamer
Joy is that deep settled confidence that God is in control of every area of my life.
Erwin W. Lutzer
God is a specialist; He is well able to work our failures into His plans…Often the doorway to success is through the hallway of failure.
Elisabeth Elliot
Because God is my sovereign Lord, I was not worried. He manages perfectly, day and night, year in and year out, the movements of the stars, the wheeling of the planets, the staggering coordination of events that goes on the molecular level in order to hold things together. There is no doubt that he can manage the timing of my days and weeks.
Elton Trueblood
Any alleged Christianity which fails to express itself in cheerfulness, at some point, is clearly spurious. The Christian is cheerful, not because he is blind to injustice and suffering, but because he is convinced that these, in the light of the divine sovereignty, are never ultimate.