{"quotes":[{"text":"Hmm. I think love is about loving all things, to treat each and every thing and every one as a sovereign being that’s free to make its own choices.","author":"Michael Sanders","tags":["ascension","ayahuasca","cosmos","entheogens","freedom","happiness","infinity","joy","liberation","love","meditation","philosophy","psychedelics","sovereignty","spirituality"],"id":16411,"author_id":"Michael+Sanders"},{"text":"Men will allow God to be everywhere but on his throne. They will allow him to be in his workshop to fashion worlds and make stars. They will allow Him to be in His almonry to dispense His alms and bestow his bounties. They will allow Him to sustain the earth and bear up the pillars thereof, or light the lamps of heaven, or rule the waves of the ever-moving ocean; but when God ascends Hes throne, His creatures then gnash their teeth. And we proclaim an enthroned God, and His right to do as He wills with His own, to dispose of His creatures as He thinks well, without consulting them in the matter; then it is that we are hissed and execrated, and then it is that men turn a deaf ear to us, for God on His throne is not the God they love. But it is God upon the throne that we love to preach. It is God upon His throne whom we trust.","author":"Charles Haddon Spurgeon","tags":["god","grace","man","power","sin","sovereignty"],"id":26554,"author_id":"Charles+Haddon+Spurgeon"},{"text":"Modern sovereignty, whether expressed through killing in battle or the torture of suspects, brings together the desire to build up and the desire to destroy, to let Aid Agencies offer charity (in its original meaning of 'love') while the military offers death. The two are intrinsically connected.","author":"Talal Asad","tags":["compassion","killing","sovereignty","war"],"id":27205,"author_id":"Talal+Asad"},{"text":"No attempt should be made to 'reconcile' Yahweh's hardening of Pharaoh's heart (plagues 6,8,9,10) with statements in the other plagues that Pharaoh hardened his own heart.The tension cannot be resolved in a facile manner by suggesting, for example, that Pharaoh has already demonstrated his recalcitrance, so Yahweh merely helps the process along, or that he is doing what Pharaoh would have done on his own anyway. Rather, 9:12 is a striking reminder of what God has been trying to teach Moses and Israel since the beginning of the Exodus episode: He is in complete control. However Pharaoh might have reacted is given the chance is not brought into the discussion. He is not even given that chance. Yahweh hardens his heart. It is best to allow the tension of the text to remain.","author":"Peter Enns","tags":["bible-study","free-will","god","pharaoh","predestination","sovereignty","yahweh"],"id":36570,"author_id":"Peter+Enns"},{"text":"What's simple is that everything good comes from God, and everything bad comes from man. Where it gets complicated is that everything seemingly good but ultimately bad comes from man, and everything seemingly bad but ultimately good comes from God.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["apologetics","bad","blindness","blindness-of-man","complexity","complication","depravity","desire","discernment","emotion","evil","fallen","glory","god","good","happiness","heart","holiness","ignorance","joy","judgment","love","lust","man","meaning","misunderstood","morality","omnipotence","omnipresence","omniscience","pain","passion","perfection","purpose","reason","scam","simplicity","sin","sovereignty","stupidity","stupidity-of-man","suffering","ultimate","understanding"],"id":38681,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don't have.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["acumen","ity","book-knowledge","bookish","brainy","charge","cleverness","comand","control","direction","dominance","foresight","genuis","huge","immature","influence","intelligence","knowledge","leader","leadership","leading","little-things","looks","management","mastery","power","precocious","rule","sight","size","small","sovereignty","steering","superintendence","supremacy","sway","tiny","wisdom","wise"],"id":60820,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"If you are not there for other people, do not expect them to be there for you. In many a case one might conclude that this is part of God's sovereign justice. His grace, however, is that He Himself will always be there for you, no matter what.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["being-there","god","grace","justice","love","sovereignty"],"id":61635,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"God is not some lesser employee, as many try to make Him out to be: rather He is the ultimate Treasure. He works in a man; He works on a man; He works through a man; He works around a man. Know that He does far more than simply work for a man. And yet, even as He Himself needs no one else, everyone else is ever in need of Him.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["apologetics","employee","god","love-of-god","salvation","sovereignty","sovereignty-of-god","transformation","treasure","work"],"id":68728,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Sadly enough, some people are insecure in such a way that they cannot bear the thought of the sovereignty of God, the thought of His Being as greater than themselves. It makes them feel insignificant. But I know if I were to worship and obey anything, I would like it far greater than myself or any person or human system, preferably to the point that which it, perhaps, in all its majesty, makes me feel lost and even 'creatural' in my sheer humanity. Only this God - He who is great beyond human measure, yet still considers His creation precious - I find to be more than worthy of praise; otherwise, I bow down and worship nothing. And if the thought of such a superior and almighty God were to indeed offend me, I would have to remember that it is because I am only as significant as the things which I am idolizing, things which are ultimately separating me, the creation, from my original Creator.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["apologetics","ity","creature","depravity","god","holiness","humans","insecurity","insignificant","obedience","omnipotence","perfection","power","praise","righteousness","sovereignty","worship"],"id":69055,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means used be physical force in the form of legal penalties, or the moral coercion of public opinion. That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinions of others, to do so would be wise, or even right. These are good reasons for remonstrating with him, or reasoning with him, or persuading him, or entreating him, but not for compelling him, or visiting him with any evil, in case he do otherwise. To justify that, the conduct from which it is desired to deter him must be calculated to produce evil to someone else. The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.","author":"John Stuart Mill","tags":["ethics","force","happiness","harm","harm-principle","law","liberty","morality","obligation","prevention","principle","rights","sovereignty"],"id":81632,"author_id":"John+Stuart+Mill"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":41,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}