All Christian believe in divine sovereignty, but some are not aware that they do, and mistakenly imagine and insist they reject it…
The root cause is the same as in most cases of error in the church; the intruding of rationalistic speculations, the passion for systematic consistency, a reluctance to recognize the existence of mystery and to let God be wiser than men, and a consequent subjecting of Scripture to the supposed demands of human logic.
J.I. Packer,
Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God
Certainly there are great mysteries connected with the being of God, but that should not be surprising to any except those who want to be God themselves=
D.A. Carson, The Gagging of God, 235
The best rule of sobriety is, not only in learning to follow wherever God leads, but also when he makes an end of teaching, to cease also from wishing to be wise.
Calvin, Institutes III, 21, 3
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