Quotes about Control

Anger, [Evagrius] wrote, is given to us by God to help us confront true evil. We err when we use it casually, against other people, to gratify our own desires for power or control.

A prophet's task is to reveal the fault lines hidden beneath the comfortable surface of the worlds we invent for ourselves, the national myths as well as the little lies and delusions of control and security that get us through the day. And Jeremiah does this better than anyone.

You can foul up the devil's whole strategy by taking charge of your thoughts and bringing them in line with the Word of God.

One of the ways the devil has deceived us and controlled our finances is through debt.

We have allowed Satan to flip the coin over on the other side and put the Body of Christ in debt to the world. In doing this, we have allowed them to possess us. The borrower is servant to the lender. Many

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

There are two kinds of people those who say to God, Thy will be done, and those to whom God says, All right, then, have it your way.

Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is

Practical experience and accurate observation show that one cannot influence one's own dreams. There are people, it is true, who assert that they can influence them. But if you look into their dream material, you find that they do only what I do with my disobedient dog: I order him to do those things I notice he wants to do anyhow, so that I can preserve my illusion of authority.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.