Quotes about Control
God is sovereign over the nations. He is sovereign over the officials of our own government in all their actions as they affect us, directly or indirectly.
— Jerry Bridges
Yet God said that no other nation would covet the land of the Israelites, even during their vulnerable and defenseless times. God can restrain not only people's actions, but even their most deeply rooted desires. No part of the human heart is impervious to God's sovereign but mysterious control.
— Jerry Bridges
God is in control; He is sovereign. He does whatever pleases Him and determines whether we can do what we have planned.
— Jerry Bridges
These stories are meant to teach us that God is sovereign over people and to encourage us by the knowledge that God exercises His sovereignty for our good.
— Jerry Bridges
rejoice because we believe He is in control of those circumstances and is at work through them for our ultimate good.
— Jerry Bridges
But God has not walked away from the day-to-day control of His creation. Certainly He has established physical laws by which He governs the forces of nature, but those laws continuously operate according to His sovereign will.
— Jerry Bridges
Your promotion, or lack of it, is in the hand of God. Your superiors are simply His agents to carry out His will.
— Jerry Bridges
Adversity is difficult even when we know God is in control of our circumstances.
— Jerry Bridges
Because we know God is directing our lives to an ultimate end and because we know He is sovereignly able to orchestrate the events of our lives toward that end, we can trust Him. We can commit to Him not only the ultimate outcome of our lives, but also all the intermediate events and circumstances that will bring us to that outcome.
— Jerry Bridges
one of the most frequent references to it concerns His sovereignty over nations and governments.
— Jerry Bridges
Just as we saw in chapter 4 that God is sovereign in the hearts of individuals, whose decisions and actions affect us, so God is also sovereign in the decisions and actions of government as they affect
— Jerry Bridges
Confidence in the sovereignty of God in all that affects us is crucial to our trusting Him. if there is a single event in all of the universe that can occur outside of God's sovereign control, then we cannot trust Him.
— Jerry Bridges