Quotes about Control
You got to remember that when things are out of our hands, that doesn't mean they're not in God's.
- Lisa Wingate
I leaf through more pages, wondering, remembering, thinking about this watershed year. Life can turn on a dime. The appointment book reinforces my new awareness of this. We plan our days, but we don't control them.
- Lisa Wingate
Who chooses the schedules we keep? We do, I guess.
- Lisa Wingate
I shush my mind, because your mind can ruin you if you let it. I
- Lisa Wingate
When addiction runs in your family, you can't take chances. You can't try it once to see what it's like. One time can be the beginning of something you can't stop.
- Lisa Wingate
Every decision you make in life has benefits and consequences. Sometimes you just have to go on faith, and even that comes at a price. It means you have to give up the idea that you're the one in charge
- Lisa Wingate
What can't be understood and neatly sewn up must simply be let go, not in the way of giving up, but in the way of understanding who is really in control of it.
- Lisa Wingate
Hence the explanation of sin is that God permits it, but controls and overrules it for His own glory. If
- Loraine Boettner
God is the absolute sovereign Ruler of heaven and earth, and we are never to think of Him as wishing or striving to do what He knows He will not do. For Him to do otherwise would be for Him to act foolishly. Since
- Loraine Boettner
We simply must balance our demand for energy with our rapidly shrinking resources. By acting now we can control our future instead of letting the future control us.
- Jimmy Carter
A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself.
- Marcus Aurelius
The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.
- Norman Vincent Peale