Quotes About Control

But she'd lost a good deal of her innocence there, because she'd discovered so much she couldn't control.

I am the bookkeeper, after all, and as a rule the numbers don't behave too badly.

The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.

admitting we are not God—not in control, not running anything, not responsible for everyone's well-being, not the solution for everything and everyone, not at the center of all things—doesn't belittle us; it frees us.

Whatever you give shelter and sustenance to in your mind is ultimately what will grow in your garden. You're going to reap what you sow. The way you renew your mind is to wrap your thoughts around Scripture. You can take control of what you think about. You deliberately plant the good seeds/thoughts of God in your mind. As these thoughts take root and grow, they will help remove the destructive weeds that the Enemy tries to plant in your mind.

As we will soon discover, admitting we are not God—not in control, not running anything, not responsible for everyone's well-being, not the solution for everything and everyone, not at the center of all things—doesn't belittle us; it frees us.

The first, stress, gets a stranglehold on us when we move through life feeling like everything (every decision, every answer, every provision, every protection) rests on our shoulders.

Wanting to steer toward great outcomes is noble. But trying to control the world is disastrous. In time, controllers crack under the reality that none of us are in control.

God, help me take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

the battle for your life is fought and won in your mind. God wants you to take control of your mind, in Jesus' name, through the power of His Holy Spirit. You can think your way into changing your life for good.

all of us are shepherded whether we realize it or not. Your shepherd might not be Jesus. But something is going to lead you.

Lord, when little things—and big things—make me want to lose my temper, help me not to sweat it. Remind me to ask You what to do instead.

Lord, help me control my tongue. Help me be careful about what I say. —PSALM 141:3 ICB

Anger is not wrong. But if anger is uncontrolled, stuffed, misplaced, or given full vent, then anger can do us a lot of harm.

Una ira con razón, pero expresada de forma indebida. Realmente tienes algo por lo cual estar enojado, pero la estás expresando en toda clase de maneras indebidas. Tu ira destruye puentes. Le hace daño a la gente que te rodea, y te daña a ti también.

I am the state.

The greatest potential for control the ends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Language was not given to man: he seized it.

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.

As if one could do what one wanted with one's own body!

claimed that God by virtue of His absolute power

It is closely related to the Church, though not altogether identical with it. The citizenship of the kingdom is co-extensive with the membership in the invisible Church. Its field of operation, however, is wider than that of the Church, since it aims at the control of life in all its manifestations.

History is the propaganda of the victors.

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before — it takes something from him.