Quotes about Control

Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs.

There is, inside all our heads, the ego's rabid attack dog. It is purely vicious toward others and toward ourselves as well. Learning to control that dog, and ultimately to end its life, is the process and purpose of enlightened relationships.

Our power lies in remaining nonreactive.

The ego seeks intimacy through control and guilt. The Holy Spirit seeks intimacy through acceptance and release.

You're afraid of feelings the way you're afraid of food: you're afraid that once you start, you may never stop. But the truth is, feelings are only out of control when they're not handed over for divine resolution. Given to Divine Mind, they're lifted to divine right order—where they will be appropriately felt and then appropriately dissolved. So too shall it be with food appetites, for they are mere reflections of your turmoil or peace.

I free the universe from my efforts to control it.

You can have faith or you can have control, but you cannot have both." If you want God to do something off the chart, you have to take your hands off the controls.

I felt God had conned me by telling me to marry Grace, and allowed Grace to rule over me since she was controlling our sex life. I loved Grace, but in the bedroom I did not enjoy her and wondered how many years I could white-knuckle fidelity.

An animal will conquer others. A Spirit-filled man conquers himself — self-discipline, self-control.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Radicalism is a luxury of stability because only when we have everything under control can we dare to change things.

There was nothing wrong, he reminded himself, with healthy fear; only when it escalated into panic did it become a killer.