Quotes About Control

Whoever needs the relationship less has all the power.

I have a lot of frustration with religion, organized religion, because it's man-made, because it's man-regulated. And it has nothing to do with my relationship with God.

Being 'one flesh' in marriage means that the relationship is not the source of security, affirmation, control, or value. Those issues of identity need to be rooted in Christ.

I didn't know that being in a relationship meant you had to be nice. I thought it meant you had to hack away at the other person until they were beaten down and then were too afraid to leave.

We have converted our wounds into a type of relationship currency that we use in order to control situations and people.

I like him, sweetheart, and I'll still give him hell. It's my total right.

Once a ruler becomes religious, it becomes impossible for you to debate with him. Once someone rules in the name of religion, your lives become hell.

He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap.

There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.

I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they can get.

By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.

Religion should be about your relationship with God, not what the church says you can and can't do.

I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man.

There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages.

Much of the Christian religion has largely become "holding on" instead of letting go. But God, it seems to me, does the holding on (to us!), and we must learn the letting go (of everything else).

Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power.

The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

Religion is the most fragile of all freedoms. And that's because it is the most threatening to those in power.

Religion is like drugs, it destroys the thinking mind.

The garb of religion is the best cloak for power.

If you don't surrender to Christ, you surrender to chaos.

Religions are the cradles of despotism.

When religion controls government, political liberty dies; and when government controls religion, religious liberty perishes.