Quotes About Control

There may be times when you have to renew your commitment to release what you want, how you look, and especially what you are doing for the Lord. Much of our effort to do things for the Lord is really the resurgence of our desire to dominate and make things happen in our own strength.

Too often our "love" for family members is domination in disguise.

Joy must be chosen, but the deeper conundrum is that it can't be controlled or cajoled as to when it will come or how long it will stay.

The presence of disruptive emotions that feel irrational or out of control is not necessarily a sign of disease, sin, or trauma. Instead, it may be the signal that the heart is struggling with God. Therefore, we must view the ups and downs of our emotional life not as a problem to be resolved, but as a cry to be heard.

How happy can you be when you think every action and thought is being monitored by a judgemental ghost?

Lord Jealous.

The media is the right arm of anarchy.

Anyone who said power was not addictive had never really experienced it.

The act of tattooing one's skin was a tranformative declaration of power, an announcment to the world: I am in control of my own flesh.

Human thought can literally transform the physical world .. we are the masters of our own universe

Cancer is nothing more than a healthy cell that starts replicating out of control.

I've learned to expect the worst from people who hold power.

She cried for the life she could not control. She cried for the mentor who had died before her eyes. She cried for the profound loneliness that filled her heart. But, above all, she cried for the future … which suddenly felt so uncertain.

Inner calm is critical to persuasive acting.

The man now retrieved a linen cloth and stuffed it deep into Katherine's mouth. "Death," he whispered to her, "should be a quiet thing.

Politics is a desperate business.

GOD DOES NOT PLAY DICE WITH THE UNIVERSE.

Orang yang mengatakan bahwa kekuasaan tidak memunculkan kecanduan pasti belum benar-benar berkuasa

The most amazing part," Katherine said, "is that as soon as we humans begin to harness our true power, we will have enormous control over our world. We will be able to design reality rather than merely react to it.

The human spirit craves for mastery over its carnal shell.

I know you want to run, but I'm not going to let you. Sooner or later you need to start trusting someone.

To efficiently create chaos, Langdon realized, requires some order.

Ah, yes," Langdon said with a knowing smile. "Who better than a bunch of celibate male octogenarians to tell the world how to have sex?

Media is the right arm of anarchy