Quotes about Control

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.

If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.

Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men.

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.

I'm a freak when it comes to holding on the ground; it's just almost impossible holding me on the ground.

Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.