Quotes about Control

Be your own palace, or the world is your jail.

I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.

He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought; and as a wise householder commands his servants and invites his guests, so must he learn to command his desires and to say, with authority, what thoughts he shall admit into the mansion of his soul.

Circumstances hell! I make circumstances!

Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.

Necessity and chance approach not me, and what I will is fate.

Courage isn't the absence of fear, it's just deciding that fear isn't calling the shots anymore

We whine about things we have little control over; we lament what we believe ought to be changed.

When the church joined with the state, it tended to wield power rather than dispense grace.

The world runs by ungrace. Everything depends on what I do.

Even when everything seems out of control, God remains firmly in control.

grace happens at unexpected moments. It stops us short, catches the breath, disarms. If we manipulate it, try to control it, somehow earn it, that would not be grace.