Quotes about Control

I have the power to choose my response.

If you understand how the universe operates, you control it, in a way.

After all, it is hard to think of a more important, or fundamental, mystery than what, or who, created and controls the universe.

You don't command wind in the direction it blows, but you command a ship in the direction it sails.

You have little control over the world around you, but full control over the world within you.

You can't control the length of your life. You can control the depth.

When absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith-community , we produce trained cowards rather than Christian persons.

Rule #1 You're the Driver of Your Bus.

Everything has two handles,--one by which it may be borne another by which it cannot.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.

It's only logical that if God always answered our prayers as we wanted him to, those answers to our prayers could hardly be considered miraculous. They would only be part of a predictable system that we could manipulate, if only we knew how. It really makes God not God, but a "God" or a god whom we are ultimately able to control through our efforts, whether via prayer or via our "moral" actions designed to elicit a favorable response.