Quotes About Control

The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.

Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

Democracy is the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.

We have come to love the music of proof. Logical connection for us is not some popular song about a finch, but a choral symphony, so difficult and so inspired that the conductor must exert all his energy to keep the performers under his control.

God's end is to enable me to see that he can walk on the chaos of my life just now.

He can crumple me up or exalt me, He can do anything He chooses.

Sanctification means being made one with Jesus so that the nature that controlled Him will control us.

The Christian who is truly intimate with Jesus will never draw attention to himself but will only show the evidence of a life where Jesus is completely in control.

All our fretting and worrying is caused by planning without God.

The first thing I must be willing to admit when I begin to examine what controls and dominates me is that I am the one responsible for having yielded myself to whatever it may be. If I am a slave to myself, I am to blame because somewhere in the past I yielded to myself. Likewise, if I obey God I do so because at some point in my life I yielded myself to Him.

The Christian who is truly intimate with Jesus will never draw attention to himself but will only show the evidence of a life where Jesus is completely in control. This

The real test of spiritual focus is being able to bring your thoughts and imagination under control. Is your mind focused on the face of an idol? Is the idol yourself? Is it your work?

We take such liberties with our circumstances, we do not believe God engineers them, although we say we do; we treat the things that happen as if they were engineered by men. To be faithful in every circumstance means that we have only one loyalty, and that is to our Lord. Suddenly God breaks up a particular set of circumstances

It is not on what we spend the greatest amount of time that molds us the most, but whatever exerts the most power over us.

Beware of the inclination to dictate to God what consequences you would allow as a condition of your obedience to Him.

Love is spontaneous, but it has to be maintained through discipline.

Once upon a time, Freedom and Necessity were identical; but now what is understood by freedom is in fact indiscipline.

Wer auf dieser Mühle stirbt, bestimme ich!

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It seems that life, in order to maintain itself, must revolt every so often against man's ceaseless attempts to master its irrational forces with his mind.