Quotes about Control

The time is coming when the Antichrist will take full control of the world system. The judgments will get worse. Before us are two people— one who knew God and one who didn't. One who showed the love of God, who gave her life so that we would be saved. May these two lives renew our resolve to live for God. We must let nothing stand in our way in telling others the truth. Even if it costs our lives.

The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.

Politics, after all, is largely about power. And power goes to the core of our issues of control and narcissism and need to be right and tendency to divide the human race into 'us' vs. 'them.'

Sometimes God seemed as close as his wife or children. Sometimes he had no sense of God's presence, no faith to lean on. God is wild, you know, he wrote. We're not in charge.

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

Like a sudden thaw in the middle of winter, grace happens at unexpected moments. It stops us short, catches the breath, disarms. If we manipulate it, try to control it, somehow earn it, that would not be grace. Yet not everyone has tasted of that amazing grace, and not everyone believes in it.

Still, you lord it over My people and do not allow them to go.

Worry is a waste of energy. It cant change the past. It cant control the future. It only makes today miserable

You have no reason for fear when you answer God's call; you have every reason to be afraid when you put your life in your own hands.

God owns our relationships—we do not—and that he has a higher purpose for them than we do.