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Can one who hates right govern?" Job 34:13
— Barbara Kingsolver
To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's.
— Dallas Willard
If we apply logic to solving our problems and add the godly principles of loving our fellow man, caring about our neighbors, and developing our God-given talents to the utmost so we become valuable to those around us — allowing these values and principles to govern our lives — then not only will we remain a pinnacle nation, we will truly be "one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
— Ben Carson
So King Uzziah was a leper until the day of his death. He lived in isolation, leprous and cut off from the house of the LORD, while his son Jotham had charge of the royal palace to govern the people of the land.
— 2 Chronicles 26:21
the moon and stars to govern the night. His loving devotion endures forever.
— Psalm 136:9
Whatever a man depends upon, whatever rules his mind, whatever governs his affections, whatever is the chief object of his delight, is his god.
— Charles Spurgeon
As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.'
— CS Lewis
And he will bring justice to the nations. He will not quarrel, nor scream at people. You will not be able to hear his voice above the chatter of the street. In bringing discernment of what is good and right to the point where it actually governs human existence, he will not use even the violence it takes to finish breaking a stick that is already cracked or smother a smoking wick. (Matt. 12:18—21, quoted from Isa. 42:1—4)
— Dallas Willard
The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us.
— Oscar Wilde
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
— Edmund Burke
Belief cannot reliably govern life and action except in its proper connection with knowledge and with the truth and evidence knowledge involves.
— Dallas Willard
If you set out to seek freedom, then learn above all things to govern your soul and your senses . . . only through discipline may a man learn to be free.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer