Quotes about Control

Dying to self does not exclude having a proper sense of self-worth, including the need to feel recognized and valued. Recognition from others is a good and proper thing. But it must not be what controls our lives. It must not become the goal of our existence. If we find that our need for recognition is consuming our thoughts and determining our behavior, then we need to move to a higher source for our sense of our personal worth. That source is, of course, God's love for us.

There may be times when you have to renew your commitment to release what you want, how you look, and especially what you are doing for the Lord. Much of our effort to do things for the Lord is really the resurgence of our desire to dominate and make things happen in our own strength.

Too often our "love" for family members is domination in disguise.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.

If our feelings control our actions, it is because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so.

Imagine your anger to be a kind of wild beast, because it has ferocious teeth and claws, and if you don't tame it, it will devastate all things even corrupting the soul.

Anger does a man more hurt than that which made him angry.

Anger is frustration at the fact that we are not God, and do not have control over reality.

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

So much worse are the consequences of anger than its causes.