Quotes About Control

You've been born into a world of authority, and it is not you.

Peace is found in trusting the person who controls all the things that you don't understand and who knows no mystery because he has planned it all.

Now, you and I need to understand two things in these words that answer our question. What is God doing? First, he's reigning! No, your world is not out of control. No, the bad guys are not going to win. No, sin will not have the final victory. Because your world is not out of control but under God's careful redemptive control, you can have hope even when it looks to you as if darkness is winning the day.

You are always looking for something to which you can attach your identity, your hopes and dreams, and your inner peace. Whatever controls the worship of your heart controls your choices, words, emotions, and actions.

To every human being, sin is the ultimate undefeatable enemy. It captures and controls us all, and there is nothing we can do. It is either the height of arrogance or the depth of delusion to think that you are okay. None of us is okay apart from the invasion of grace that is the core purpose for the coming of Jesus.

tu Dios tiene un increíble poder; un poder distintivo. Él conoce a Su pueblo, conoce dónde está, conoce lo que necesitan y cuándo lo necesitan, conoce de qué debe ser liberado y qué debe ser controlado para que Su voluntad sea hecha. Él siempre le da a Sus hijos el poder que necesitan.

En la Palabra hallamos esperanza cuando todo parece estar perdido; encontramos riquezas cuando nos sentimos pobres; recibimos Su poder cuando vemos nuestras debilidades; y recordamos Su gobierno cuando todo a nuestro alrededor parece estar fuera de control.

No awesome thing in creation was meant to give you what only the Creator is able to give. Every awesome thing in creation is designed to point you to the One who alone is worthy of capturing and controlling the awe of your searching and hungry heart.

En lugar de que sea el amor de Dios moldeando mis relaciones y motivaciones, el amor por mí mismo toma el control.

God's purpose in controlling the details of your life (the exact length of it and the locations where you live) is so that at any moment in the middle of your unfolding story, you can reach out and touch him, because his rule makes him very near to every one of us. What each of us really needs in our finite and faltering humanness is not so much the success of our plans, but God himself.

What is God doing? First, he's reigning! No, your world is not out of control. No, the bad guys are not going to win. No, sin will not have the final victory. Because your world is not out of control but under God's careful redemptive control, you can have hope even when it looks to you as if darkness is winning the day.

Consider having as a friend, co-worker, or lover a person who in terms of emotional control and disguise was like a three-month-old infant, yet in all other respects—intelligence, skills, and so on—was fully able as any adult. It is a painful prospect.

Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities.

Religious language, like all language, can also so easily be used as an instrument of power by which some people seek to control other people. That's an abiding danger every time we open our mouth and speak, contemporary philosophers tell us, so we have to be aware of it and be on guard against it. Our guard goes down and the temptation to turn religious language into power language goes up when we take that language in a too literal, or too precise, or univocal sense.

So much of what we are then has been completely outside of our control and is not our fault. •

The same recipe that makes individuals rich makes countries powerful. Let the nerds keep their lunch money, and you rule the world.

I told them that God controlled all things, not fate, and that our lives were determined by him and by the choices we make to obey or disobey his Word. I used this opportunity to tell them what the Bible says

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims—the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates.

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims - the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is that nobody really possesses a great kind of power for long. Those who have it on loan from Fate count on it too much and are themselves destroyed.

And power will always consume itself.

Once we have power, we shall never again give it up, unless we are carried out as corpses from our offices.

She concentrated on the former East Germany, stronghold of the infamous secret police, the Stasi (the Ministry for State Security).

But belief in a system cannot be sustained for ever. Empires based solely on power and domination, while allowing their subjects to do as they will, can last for centuries. Those that try to control the everyday lives of their people are much harder to sustain.

A hugely complicated, centrally planned, social and economic system can only be kept on the rails for as long as people believe in it.