R. C. Sproul Quotes

The kingdom of God is a condition in which God rules, and all determinations and rights are annulled

God doesn't need our consent in order to govern us; He made us.

God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.

All human kingship risks a denial of the sovereignty of God.

… infinite wisdom had seen fit to put that people under a more excellent form of government, than any nation has ever had. God himself was their King. And they might have been long happy under a government, in which, the Ruler of the world condescended himself to execute the office of Chief-Magistrate. But such was their impiety and folly, that in many instances they greatly abused and perverted the privileges they were favoured with.

This is the essence of God's sovereignty; His absolute independence to do as He pleases and His absolute control over the actions of all His creatures. No creature, person, or empire can either thwart His will or act outside the bounds of His will.

All power is His and within His command.

God himself, with reverence be it spoken, is not an absolute but a limited monarch, limited by the rule which infinite wisdom prescribes to infinite power.

The true sovereign is not the American president nor the English king, but the Lord of the Second Advent.

All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.

Know all inhabitants of earth, that vain and trivial is the power of kings nor is anyone worthy of the name of king save Him whose nod heaven and earth obey under laws eternal.

Government “for the people” should be called a government of God rather than of men.

… in this state [a theocracy] the highest and only authority belonged to God, to whose worship all other things were made subservient.

In every political community there must be one supreme, irresistible, absolute, uncontrolled, authority.

As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn't running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.

God to be God must rule the heart and transform it.

The sea hath no king but God alone.

He rules all things, not as the world soul but as the lord of all. And because of his dominion he is called Lord God Pantokrator". For “god" is a relative word and has reference to servants, and godhood is the lordship of God, not over his own body "as is supposed by those for whom God is the world soul', but over servants.

If God is the Creator of the entire universe, then it must follow that He is the Lord of the whole universe. No part of the world is outside of His lordship. That means that no part of my life must be outside of His lordship.

Reason is like an officer when the king appears. The officer then loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.

God is all powerful, He's in control.

The God of Israel is King of kings and Lord of lords... He know, and foreknows, all things, and his foreknowledge is foreordination; he, therefore, will have the last word, both in world history and in the destiny of every man; his kingdom and righteousness will triumph in the end, for neither men nor angels shall be able to thwart him.

For one to grasp, whatever be his object, sov'reign power ... is an act of perilous presumption.

Jah sitteth in Mount Zion, and rules all creation!