Quotes about Control

Your promotion, or lack of it, is in the hand of God. Your superiors are simply His agents to carry out His will.

Adversity is difficult even when we know God is in control of our circumstances.

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.

one of the most frequent references to it concerns His sovereignty over nations and governments.

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

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.

God rules the world by Providence, not by miracle.

God not only determines who governs, He also rules in the decisions that they make. Proverbs 16:33 says, "The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD.

He so directs and controls all events and all actions of His creatures that they never act outside of His sovereign will.

Does God cause people to make decisions that favor us, and does God restrain people from making decisions that would harm us?

Yet God controls the king's heart. The stubborn will of the most powerful monarch on earth is directed by God as easily as the farmer directs the flow of water in his irrigation canals.

The place to start controlling the cravings of our physical appetites is to reduce our exposure to temptation.