Quotes About Control

God has given us control over one thing in our lives - our thoughts.

What makes God laugh is people who make plans.

If there is one maverick molecule in all the universe, then God is not sovereign. And if God is not sovereign, He is not God.

The whole concept of providence is that God knows everything about what we do.

God is sovereign. His grace cannot be tamed.

God is the one that's ultimately in control of everything. You can't try to change things when they're not meant to be changed.

If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce.

I am not your God. Or if I am, I'm no God you can seek out for deliverance or explanation. I'm the kind of God who would eat you without compunction if I were hungry.

There is one thing the power of God and the power of Satan have in common: Neither can influence us unless we allow them to.

The essence of surrender is getting out of God's way so that He can do in us what He also wants to do through us.

Control the things you can control. As for the rest - God bless it all.

The will is stronger than anything else. Everything must go down before the will, for it comes from God. A pure and strong will is omnipotent.

But without effort [God] sets in motion all things by mind and thought.

If it is unnecessary to adjust the amount of expenditure to the means available, there is no limit to the spending of the great god State.

God rules even where Satan seems to hold sway, because the latter exists only on God's sufferance.

How to make God laugh? Tell Him your plans.

God's more in control than we are. Obviously you still take all the precautions and safety measures inside your car.

Taking delight in random encounters that come our way is a wonderful reminder that God is in control.

God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for one reason: it's a future that was written so as to be altered.

Even God is said to be unable to use force against necessity.

Either the future is subject to chance--in which case nobody, not even a god, can affect it one way or the other--or it is predestined, in which case foreknowledge cannot avert it.

God is not blind; neither is He capricious. For Him there are no accidents. With God there are no cases of chance events.

There are two kinds of directors in the theater. Those who think they are God and those who are certain of it.

If I were a CEO of a company and ran it like God runs the universe, I'd be fired.