Quotes about Control

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.

All political problems can be solved by the correct application of power.

We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

Where there is great power, there is great responsibility.

I don't know if I ever really get mad in real life.

Democracy is like a tamborine - not everyone can be trusted with it.

Sin also carries on its war by entangling the affections and drawing them into an alliance against the mind. Grace may be enthroned in the mind, but if sin controls the affections, it has seized a fort from which it will continually assault the soul. Hence, as we shall see, mortification is chiefly directed to take place upon the affections.