Quotes about Control
Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients with a sickness. The sickness is a chronic tendency to think we are in control and that our work is indispensable. To cure us of this disease God turns us into helpless sacks of sand once a day.
— John Piper
What masters us has become our god; and Paul warns us about those whose "god is their belly" (Philippi- ans 3:19).
— John Piper
Make the mule of your tongue serve the mercy of your heart.
— John Piper
When we depend upon organizations, we get what organizations can do; when we depend upon education, we get what education can do; when we depend upon man, we get what man can do; but when we depend upon prayer, we get what God can do.1
— John Piper
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— John Piper
Oh! God, my only trust went there Through all life's scenes before Lo! At the throne again I bow, New mercies to implore. Grant active power, grant fervent zeal, And guide by thy control, And ever be my country's weal The purpose of my soul. Extend, all seeing God, thy hand In memory still decree And make, to bless thy native land An instrument of me. -September 21, 1817
— John Quincy Adams
Passion and prejudice govern the world, only under the name of reason.
— John Wesley
But self-will is blind.
— Ellen White
God does not control our minds without our consent; but if we desire to know and to do His will, His promises are ours: "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."
— Ellen White
But to abrogate the law would be to immortalize transgression, and place the world under Satan's control. It was because the law was changeless, because man could be saved only through obedience to its precepts, that Jesus was lifted up on the cross.
— Ellen White
The fact that Facebook presents facial recognition programmes as a desirable development, well, that in itself is a decisive step toward fascism, as far as I'm concerned.
— Christoph Waltz
The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.
— Publilius Syrus