That God is our Father, the creator and
sovereign ruler of all things visible and invisible, material and spiritual;
She will be a partner of
the Sovereign Ruler of the universe.13
or «the Year of Our Lord,» turns up six times, and there is
a Sovereign Ruler of Events, one Grace, two Governors (of the World and the Universe), two Nature's Gods, and, for good measure, one Goddess of Liberty.
Nevertheless, the faith that God is the Lord of history; that even atomic energy is God's energy to be used for human good and not for mutual destruction; that no nation is sovereign in its own right but that God alone is
the sovereign Ruler of the world — such a faith makes a vast difference in the way we deal with political issues.
Not exact matches
During the period
of anarchy following Aurangzeb's death their kingdom was extended by a succession
of able Maratha
rulers until it became a formidable empire in the Deccan and threatened to engulf the warring Muslim leaders and their nominal
sovereign, the Mughal emperor himself.
Bellum in medieval usage referred to any use
of armed force by a
sovereign ruler, whether this force was applied internally to that
ruler's society or externally.
They were helpless sheep, tenderly cared for and protected; but they were also subjects
of the Supreme
Ruler of the Universe; indeed they were the King's sons, with whom it was his
sovereign will and fatherly pleasure to share his own royal authority and power.
Bishops hold the rank
of sovereign princes, and the temporal and spiritual power
of the first bishop
of Christendom renders him somehow the arbiter
of kings («arbiter
of kings» means that the pope was higher than the Emperor, and thus the actual temporal
ruler of the whole world) and the fourth person
of the Divinity («person
of Divinity» means that the pope really presumes to be on a level with God).
This God was indeed creator and
sovereign ruler, but also the God who would and did communicate the divine self to humankind, so that they could know God as the loving parent
of those children.
The responsibility
of rulers in political society varies not only with the number
of functions they exercise but also with the
sovereign to whom they must account for their rulership.
... God is not world providence, that is to say not a
ruler and
sovereign of the universe, not pantocrator.