Quotes About Control

Marriage is a device originated by women for looting the men.

Money has wings but you have to cut your wings to prevent it from flying.

Money is our private plane but only few know how to pilot it.

Strong and decided measures prevail best with troublesome people.

The bad news is time flies like an arrow and the good news is the bow is in your hands.

The future is simply a servant to those who decide to master it.

The most difficult master is the servant who became master.

The mouth of a man is a terrible opening and his tongue is a terrible fire dragon.

The size of a man is measured by what it takes to upset him.

The wise man stops being wise when he gets angry.

Three things must be carefully governed by you; time, money and yourself.

When a man's temper gets the best of him, it reveals the worst of him.

You want what you want and they want what they want, but God does what He wants.

The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Crockett doubted if we could ever convict Manson, because "he does nothing himself. His people do it all for him. He doesn't do anything anybody could pin on him." He added that "all the women have been programmed to do exactly as he says, and they all have knives. He's got those girls so programmed that they don't even exist. They are a copy of him.

it is clear that divine sovereignty and human freedom contradict each other.[16] If God controls everything, including man's thoughts, then man is not free from God. If man is free from God in any sense or to any degree, then God does not control everything.

moral responsibility does not presuppose human freedom, but it presupposes divine sovereignty. We are responsible not because we are free, but we are responsible precisely because we are not free.

All the peoples of the earth are regarded as nothing. He does as he pleases with the powers of heaven and the peoples of the earth. No one can hold back his hand or say to him: "What have you done?" (Daniel 4:35)

Why, do you think that you can undermine God's sovereignty and get away with it?

when a person says that he believes in the absolute sovereignty of God but then denies the sovereignty of God when it comes to certain things, creatures, and events, he deceives himself. He does not really assent to the absolute sovereignty of God.

The Bible denies that man has "free will." Although the will of man exists as a function of the mind, it is not "free" in the sense that it can operate apart from God's constant and complete control.

In other words, moral responsibility does not presuppose human freedom, but it presupposes divine sovereignty. We are responsible not because we are free, but we are responsible precisely because we are not free.

My position is a consistent application of divine sovereignty over everything. It is a denial of any form of dualism or deism. I affirm that God controls everything about everything that is anything, including every aspect of every detail of every human decision and action, in such a way that man has no freedom in any meaningful or relevant sense.

God is sovereign, man is not free – and there is no problem. This is biblical, coherent, simple, and defensible.