Quotes about Control
But if God has set his seat in the sanctuary of the heavens in order to rule the universe, it follows that he by no means ignores earthly affairs, but controls them with the highest reason and wisdom.
— John Calvin
The disposition of the heart is man's, but the preparation of the tongue is the Lord's." [Prov. 16:1, 9, conflated.] It is an absurd folly that miserable men take it upon themselves to act without God, when they cannot even speak except as he wills!
— John Calvin
When he would have Jonah cast into the sea, God sent a wind by stirring up a whirlwind [Jonah 1:4]. Those who do not think that God controls the government of the universe will say that this was outside the common course. Yet from it I infer that no wind ever arises or increases except by God's express command.
— John Calvin
Each year, month, and day is governed by a new, a special, providence of God
— John Calvin
Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harmNor question muchThat subtle wreath of hair, which crowns my arm;The mystery, the sign you must not touch,For 'tis my outward soul,Viceroy to that, which then to heaven being gone,Will leave this to control,And keep these limbs, her provinces, from dissolution.
— John Donne
And now good morrow to our waking souls,Which watch not one another out of fear;For love, all love of other sights controls,And makes one little room, an everywhere.Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone,Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown,Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one.
— John Donne
Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men.
— John Donne
But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.
— John Donne
Love all love of other sights controls, And makes one little room an everywhere.
— John Donne
Grief brought to numbers cannot be so fierce, For, he tames it, that fetters it in verse.
— John Donne
That this world's general sickness doth not lie In any humour, or one certain part; But as thou sawest it rotten at the heart, Thou seest a hectic fever hath got hold Of the whole substance, not to be controlled, And that thou hast but one way, not to admit The world's infection, to be none of it.
— John Donne
I can't keep the sparrows from flying around my head, but I can keep them from making a nest in my hair.
— Martin Luther