Quotes About Control

The deadening spirit of hypocrisy lives on in prelates and politicians who want to look good but not be good; it lives on in people who prefer to surrender control of their souls to rules rather than run the risk of living in union with Jesus.

This God expects people to be perfect and to be in perpetual control of their feelings and thoughts. When broken people with this concept of God fail—as inevitably they must—they usually expect punishment. So they persevere in religious practices as they struggle to maintain a hollow image of a perfect self. The struggle itself is exhausting. The legalists can never live up to the expectations they project on God.

For, he (The Devil) observed, the issue of the great battle of Good and Evil had been otherwise settled, as he would presently show him. "It wants but a few moments of night," he continued, "and over this interval of twilight, as you know, I have been given complete control. Look to the West.("The Legend of Monte Del Diablo")

Perhaps emotion, when it is tightly disciplined, turns into worry.

It was wise to put bureaucrats in windowless offices.

I can only control what I can control.

With my pen I will rule the world. You'll see, they'll call me the scourge of princes.

What's an ambitious man but a player, Borgia—a player on a grand scale and the world his card game?

In effect, higher testosterone and lower cortisol allow them to be the "calm person in the boat.

F)or no word that has been uttered for the purpose of making man the master of his own fate has been spoken in vain.

Despite everything, I've tried to take responsibility for my life, and not merely allowed it to float away at the mercy of whatever current came along.

God allowed no mistakes.

Big changes don't happen at the battlefield; they are made in closed rooms where very powerful people decide in which direction things should go.

Working with keys is always meaningful. Locking and opening is, in a sense, man's very purpose on this earth.

That would never have worked. You can't be a hired hand for your own father. Especially when he makes all the decisions, and is always right.

Kun ihminen antaa ahneudelleen ylivallan, siihen liittyy aina riskejä.

Sometimes, in my darkest moments, I'm afraid it might never again obey me, but I haven't given up hope altogether.

There was always somebody at the top who dictated the terms, specifically or by implication, that those below had to accept. - Kurt Wallander

Life tosses us all hither and thither. Is there anything we can truly decide for ourselves?

We may be little, insignificant servants in the eyes of a world motivated by efficiency, control and success. But when we realize that God has chosen us from all eternity, sent us into the world as the blessed ones, handed us over to suffering, can't we, then, also trust that our little lives will multiply themselves and be able to fulfill the needs of countless people?

The world says, "When you were young you were dependent and could not go where you wanted, but when you grow old you will be able to make your own decisions, go your own way, and control your own destiny." But Jesus has a different vision of maturity: It is the ability and willingness to be led where you would rather not go.

What makes the temptation of power so seemingly irresistible? Maybe it is that power offers an easy substitute for the hard task of love.

It seems easier to be God than to love God, easier to control people than to love people, easier to own life than to love life.

Boredom is a sentiment of disconnectedness. While we are busy with many things, we wonder if what we do makes any real difference. Life presents itself as a random and unconnected series of activities and events over which we have little or no control. To be bored, therefore, does not mean that we have nothing to do, but that we question the value of the things we are so busy doing. The great paradox of our time is that many of us are busy and bored at the same time.