Quotes About Control

Trusting God's plan is the only secret I know in the gentle art of not freaking out.

To be with God is really to be involved in some enormous, overwhelming desire, and joy, and power which you cannot control, which controls you.

We must not allow our emotions to hold sway over our minds. Rather, we must seek to let the truth of God rule our minds. Our emotions must become subservient to the truth.

those who are afraid of freedom are those who cannot trust us to live in them. Trying to keep the law is actually a declaration of independence, a way of keeping control

Allah created my tongue to speak. I don't have freedom to come , because Allah created my feet to walk. So I walk, and I speak, and I look, and I hear according to what God says.

For God Himself works in our souls, in the deepest depths, taking increasing control as we are progressively willing to be prepared for His wonder.

The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.

If scientists don't play God, who will?

It's funny how aimless a person can feel at times, even when they know God is in control.

The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God's representative on earth.

For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.

With each new experience of letting God be in control, we gain courage and reinforcement for daring to do it again and again.

God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.

God doesn't need to have emergency meetings. He's never gathered the Trinity and asked 'What happened there'.

We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do.

What God originates, God orchestrates.

We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.

I try not to make plans. God always laughs at your plans.

As William Penn put it: "Those people who are not governed by God will be ruled by tyrants." Remember... that those tyrants are often self-imposed roadblocks of your lower self at work.

Pride is the rope God allows us all.

I have always sought to guide the future-but it is very lonely sometimes trying to play God.

Satan can do only what the sovereign God allows him to do.

Democracy is no solution - it's just 51% bossing the other 49% around. For God's sake, Hitler was democratically elected! Democracy is just mob rule dressed up in a coat and tie.

I think what Calvinism may offer us is that God's in charge of his world.