Quotes about Control
Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.
— St. Augustine
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
— St. Jerome
The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson...
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
The truth, whether we admit it or not, is that grace scares us to death. It scares us primarily because it wrestles control and manageability out of our hands - introducing chaos and freedom.
— Tullian Tchividjian
Our feelings are real and they are powerful, but they are not more powerful than God and truth.
— Joyce Meyer
It should be remembered, as an axiom of eternal truth in politics, that whatever power in any government is independent, is absolute also.
— Thomas Jefferson
The truth is, if we don't learn to submit to authority, we won't ever learn to submit to God.
— Joyce Meyer
If you want to make God laugh, tell him-her your plan
— Anonymous
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
— James Madison
The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
— Pope John Paul II
If you learn a martial art, you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously, you learn to control it.
— Jordan Peterson
Love is very much perceived as "I couldn't control myself; it's love." But you can. Everything you do in response is a choice.
— Natalie Portman