These lordship quotes will inspire you. Lordship, supreme power or rule or a respectful form of reference or address to a judge, a bishop, or a man with a title.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging lordship quotes, lordship sayings, and lordship proverbs.
Best Lordship Quotes
- “When Jesus is truly our Lord, He directs our lives and we gladly obey Him. Indeed, we bring every part of our lives under His lordship – our home and family, our sexuality and marriage, our job or unemployment, our money and possessions, our ambitions and recreations.” ~ John Stott
- “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.” ~ R. C. Sproul
- “You don’t make Him Lord. He’s Lord already. You just recognize it.” ~ Adrian Rogers
- “That’s what lordship is – Christ reigning as supreme authority over our life. Making Jesus Lord of our life is not something passive. It’s not a state of being, it’s a state of doing. Those whom Jesus recognizes as His own are those who do the will of His Father in heaven.” ~ Keith Green
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“Christianity is not a cafeteria line where you say, “I’ll have a little salvation, but no Lordship right now.” ~ Adrian Rogers
- “The Lordship of Jesus Christ is not quite forgotten among Christians, but it has been relegated to the hymnal where all responsibility toward it may be comfortably discharged in a glow of religious emotion. Or if it is taught as a theory in the classroom it is rarely applied to practical living. The idea that the Man Christ Jesus has absolute final authority over the whole church and over its members in every detail of their lives is simply not now accepted as true by the rank and file of evangelical Christians.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “The founding document of the United States of America acknowledges the Lordship of Jesus Christ because we are a Christian nation.” ~ Pat Robertson
- “Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone to accept, His lordship.” ~ Elisabeth Elliot
- “If I had only one sermon to preach it would be on the Lordship of Christ. When we get right on that point we are right all down the line. God honors the exaltation of His Son.” ~ Vance Havner
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“The irony of New Testament lordship is that only in slavery to Christ can a man discover authentic freedom.” ~ R. C. Sproul
- “God is sovereign, that is He is the boss. He is in control. He is the supreme ruler of heaven and earth for all of eternity. He is Lord. We don’t make Him Lord. He is Lord. And joy comes when we acknowledge that He is Lord; we rest in His Lordship. We trust His sovereignty, and we surrender to it. That means that God has the right to give, and God has the right to take away.” ~ Nancy Leigh DeMoss
- “Revelation is the first step to holiness, and consecration is the second. A day must come in our lives, as definite as the day of our conversion, when we give up all right to ourselves and submit to the absolute Lordship of Jesus Christ.” ~ Watchman Nee
- “Christ’s lordship is a blessed hope for some & a terrifying nightmare for others. Regardless of our response, it is an unalterable reality.” ~ Paul Washer
- “When a man comes under the blood of Christ, his whole capacity as a man is refashioned. His soul is saved, yes, but so are his mind and his body. True spirituality means the lordship of Christ over the total man.” ~ Francis Schaeffer
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“A kingdom man is a man who visibly demonstrates the comprehensive rule of God underneath the Lordship of Jesus Christ in every area of his life.” ~ Tony Evans
- “It is time for us to seek again the leadership of the Holy Spirit. Man’s lordship has cost us too much.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “This is the essence of Kingdom Authority. Fathers can have no authority in the home until they have surrendered to the headship of Jesus. Mothers cannot pray with authority for their children when they have no submissive spirit to their own husbands. Pastors cannot lead, teach, or preach with anointing and supernatural power without being fully broken and surrendered to the lordship of Christ, the authority of the Word, and the commands of the Spirit.” ~ Adrian Rogers
- “His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants’ hall.” ~ James M. Barrie
- “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.” ~ Isaac Newton
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“Christ’s resurrection doesn’t mean escaping from the world; it means mission to the world based on Jesus’s lordship over the world.” ~ N. T. Wright
- “My mustrious lordship, i’ll show you what a woman can do” ~ Artemisia Gentileschi
- “Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.” ~ Alan Hirsch
- “Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “Jesus is now the Lord; He is enthroned at the right hand of God; He is reigning in His kingdom. But this is a Lordship and a kingly reign which is known only to believers. It must be confessed by faith. His Second Coming will mean nothing less than the Lordship which is His now will be visible to all the world. When we pray, ‘Thy kingdom come,’ this is what we are praying for: the effectual and universal rule of Christ in all the world, not only over believers.” ~ George Eldon Ladd
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“Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.” ~ Owain Glyndwr
- “There is something you can’t fix, can’t heal, or can’t escape, and all you can do it trust God. Finding ultimate refuge in God means you become so immersed in his presence, so convinced of his goodness, so devoted to his lordship that you find even the cave is a perfectly safe place to be because he is there with you.” ~ John Ortberg
- “To control the future requires the control of education and of the child. Hence, for Christians to tolerate statist education, or to allow their children to be trained thereby, means to renounce power in society, to renounce their children, and to deny Christ’s Lordship over all of life.” ~ R.J. Rushdoony
- “I realized that I had granted my illness lordship over me. In viewing my depression as a despot subjecting me to its savage fancies, I was able to escape responsibility, to indulge fully my selfish desire to let my ego flourish unfettered, not obliged to anyone. But this wasn’t freedom. It was a prison-a cell separating me from those who cared for me and for whom I might have cared.” ~ Eric G. Wilson
- “But his Lordship [tells]us that God is wholly here, and wholly there, and wholly every where; because he has no parts. I cannot comprehend nor conceive this. For methinks it implies also that the whole world is also in the whole God, and in every part of God. Norcan I find anything of this in the Scripture. If I could find it there, I could believe it; and if I could find it in the public doctrine of the Church, I could easily abstain from contradicting it.” ~ Thomas Hobbes
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“Some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “The lordship of man over man is the root cause of all corrupt rule. In the light of this principle, no laws are legitimate except God’s law, and no government is legitimate except those who rule as God’s deputies, implementing God’s laws alone, which no-one has the power to change. So I say to you: if you really want to root out corruption now so widespread on God’s earth, stand up and fight against corrupt rule; take power and use it on God’s behalf. It is useless to think you change things by preaching alone.” ~ Abul A’la Maududi
- “As evangelical Christians we have tended to relegate art to the very fringe of life. The rest of human life we feel is more important. Despite our constant talk about the Lordship of Christ, we have narrowed its scope to a very small area of reality.” ~ Francis Schaeffer
- “Why were you in a vehicle with Kate, alone? What were you wearing? What was she wearing? How long were you there? Did you do something or did you talk? What was the nature of your discussion? Could this trip have been avoided?” I rubbed my face. “So basically you’re scared that His Lordship might get his panties in a bunch?” “That’s one way to put it.” ~ Ilona Andrews
- “The only method of restoring the natural equality of dignity between men and women, lies in the demolishment of that elaborate theological structure which maintains that woman is made for the possession of man in a sense in which man is not made for woman, and that celibacy, per se, is a state of superior purity. Nature and common sense (not metaphysical sense) demonstrate that there is no good reason why any man or any woman should take, claim, or wield “lordship” over another.” ~ Ellen Battelle Dietrick
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“If you practice inaction, nothing will be left undone: For the way to acquire lordship over society is by invariably not interfering.” ~ Laozi
- “The ‘lords of the earth’ are those who are doing their Will. It does not necessarily mean people with coronets and automobiles; there are plenty of such people who are the most sorrowful slaves in the world. The sole test of one’s lordship is to know what one’s true Will is, and to do it.” ~ Aleister Crowley
- “It has always seemed to me that if one falls in love with any gentleman one becomes instantly blind to his faults.But I am not blind to your faults, and I do not think that everything you do or say is right! Only—Is it being—not very comfortable—and cross—and not quite happy, when you aren’t there?” “That, my darling,” said his lordship,taking her ruthlessly into his arms,“is exactly what it s!” “Oh—!” Frederica gasped, as she emerged from an embrace which threatened to suffocate her. “Now I know! I am in love!” ~ Georgette Heyer
- “Miss Grantham’s sense of humour got the better of her at this point, and, tottering towards a chair, she sank into it, exclaiming in tragic accents:’Oh Heavens! I am betrayed!’ His lordship blenched; both he and miss Laxton regarded her with guilty dismay. Miss Grantham buried her face in her handkerchief, and uttered one shattering word: ‘Wretch!” ~ Georgette Heyer
- “If God bestowed immortality on every man then when he made him, and he made many to whom he never purposed to give his saving grace, what did his Lordship think that God gave any man immortality with purpose only to make him capable of immortal torments? It is a hard saying, and I think cannot piously be believed. I am sure it can never be proved by the canonical Scripture.” ~ Thomas Hobbes
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“An ancient prophecy … pronounced, That the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner should be grown too large to inhabit it!” ~ Horace Walpole
- “And from true lordship it follows that the true God is living, intelligent, and powerful; from the other perfections, that he is supreme, or supremely perfect. He is eternal and infinite, omnipotent and omniscient; that is, he endures from eternity to eternity; and he is present from infinity to infinity; he rules all things, and he knows all things that happen or can happen.” ~ Isaac Newton
- “But an escape less self-depreciating was taken by Lord Westbury, who, it is said, rebuffed a barrister’s reliance upon an earlier opinion of his Lordship: “I can only say that I am amazed that a man of my intelligence should have been guilty of giving such an opinion”. If there are other ways of gracefully and good-naturedly surrendering former views to a better considered position, I invoke them all.” ~ Robert H. Jackson
- “It may happen that the enemies of Islam may consider it expedient not to take any action against Islam, if Islam leaves them alone in their geographical boundaries to continue the lordship of some men over others and does not extend its message and its declaration of universal freedom within their domain. But Islam cannot agree to this unless they submit to its authority by paying Jizyah, which will be a guarantee that they have opened their doors for the preaching of Islam and will not put any obstacle in its way through the power of the state.” ~ Sayyid Qutb
- “It has been said that the people of this country are deeply interested in the humanitarian and philanthropic considerations involved in [the Eastern Question]. All must appreciate such feelings. But I am mistaken if there be not a yet deeper sentiment on the part of the people of this country, one with which I cannot doubt your lordships will ever sympathise, and that is – the determination to maintain the Empire of England.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
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“His lordship can eat my fat—” ~ Gail Carriger
- “God Most High has said, “Is the reward of virtue aught save virtue?” . . . Know, O man, that the covenant of servanthood is incumbent upon you, and that the covenant of Lordship is incumbent upon His magnanimity, as He Most High has said, “. . . and fulfill your covenant, I shall fulfill My covenant.”” ~ Ibn Ata Allah
- “Rule 1, on page I of the book of war, is: “Do not march on Moscow”. Various people have tried it, Napoleon and Hitler, and it is no good. That is the first rule. I do not know whether your Lordships will know Rule 2 of war. It is: “Do not go fighting with your land armies in China”. It is a vast country, with no clearly defined objectives…” ~ Bernard Law Montgomery
- “The emerging church, reformed according to the needs of self-esteem-starved-souls under the Lordship of Christ…. will help us to affirm the concept that ‘While god’s ideas may seem humanly impossible, he will give us these ideas which will lead to glorious, self-esteem-generating success.” ~ Robert H. Schuller
- “Yesterday’s concert was a success. I hasten to let you know. I inform your Lordship that I was not a bit nervous and played as I play when I am alone. It went well… and I had to come back and bow four times.” ~ Frederic Chopin
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“Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world, of all living things.” ~ John Steinbeck
- “Perhaps,” murmured his lordship, “I yielded to a compassionate impulse.” “A what?” gasped his best friend. “Oh, did you think I never did so?” said his lordship, the satirical glint in his eyes extremely pronounced. “You wrong me! I do, sometimes—not frequently, of course, but every now and then!” ~ Georgette Heyer
- “I think it’s for me with regards to this issue I believe in justification at the point of salvation; I believe in sanctification at the point of salvation. That doesn’t mean that we don’t continue to mature as believers in Christ. But I believe that we are justified and we are sanctified. But sin resides, the power of sin resides in our flesh. It will always try us and it was always tempt us and therefore we always need to be submitting our mind, will and emotions to the lordship of Jesus Christ.” ~ Alan Chambers
- “…we must all offer up a hymn of praise to the God… who is ‘Lord of lords’ (Deut. 10:17, Ps. 136:1, I Tim. 6:15, Rev. 17:14, 19:16)… Lordship is not simply a matter of being superior with respect to inferiors but a complete possession of all that is beautiful and good, and is furthermore a true and unshakable stability.” ~ Pope Dionysius
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“The gentleman is a man of truth, lord of his own actions, and expressing that lordship in his behavior, not in any manner dependent and servile either on persons, or opinions, or possessions.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Did I ever tell you,’ said Lymond pausing on the afterthought, on his way to the flap, ‘that that aunt of mine once hatched an egg?’ He paused, deep in thought, and walked slowly to the door before turning again. His lordship of Aubigny, staring after the vanishing form of his brother, received the full splendour of Lymond’s smile. ‘It was a cuckoo,’ said Francis Crawford prosaically, and followed Lennox out.” ~ Dorothy Dunnett
- “Sir Thomas More was a victim of injustice and irony. Generously and meekly, just as he was about to be martyred, he said: Paul . . . was present, and consented to the death of St. Stephen, and kept their clothes that stoned him to death, and yet be they [Stephen and Paul] now both twain Holy Saints in heaven, and shall continue there friends for ever, so I verily trust and . . . pray, that though your lordships have now here in earth been judges to my condemnation, we may yet hereafter in heaven merrily all meet together, to our everlasting salvation.” ~ Neal A. Maxwell
- “I mean by the universe, the aggregate of all things that have being in themselves; and so do all men else. And because God has a being, it follows that he is either the whole universe, or part of it. Nor does his Lordship go about to disprove it, but only seems to wonder at it.” ~ Thomas Hobbes
- “Though the Negroes are fed, clothed, and housed, and though the Irish peasant is starved, naked, and roofless, the bare name of freemen-the lordship over his own person, the power to choose and will-are blessings beyond food, raiment, or shelter; possessing which, the want of every comfort of life is yet more tolerable than their fullest enjoyment without them.” ~ Fanny Kemble
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“Time is a child playing with droughts. The lordship is to the child.” ~ Heraclitus
- “Love hath so long possessed me for his own
And made his lordship so familiar.” ~ Dante Alighieri - “The purpose of apologetics is not just to win an argument or a discussion, but that people with whom we are in contact may become Christians and then live under the Lordship of Christ in the whole spectrum of life.” ~ Francis Schaeffer
- “The Christian goal for the world is the universal development of Biblical theocratic republics, in which every area of life is redeemed and placed under the Lordship of Jesus Christ and the rule of God’s law.” ~ David Chilton
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“Attack and defence, want and war, victory and defeat, lordship and thraldom, all sealed with the seal of blood: this from henceforth is the History of Man.” ~ Richard Wagner
- “Men will gamble and plot and fight and fall, all for the winning of a trophy. A woman’s heart, a piece of land, a kingdom, a lordship, a contract, a ship, an egg — it hardly matters the which or the what, as soon as it is seen to be desired by one, another will make a prize of it.” ~ Jeanette Winterson
- “God’s ways do not change… Still he shows his freedom and lordship by discriminating between sinners, causing some to hear the gospel while others do not hear it, and moving some of those who hear it to repentance while leaving others in their unbelief, thus teaching his saints that hew owes mercy to none and that it is entirely of his grace, not at all through their own effort, that they themselves have found life.” ~ J. I. Packer
