Quotes about Control

The victim mentality is one of the deadliest mindsets, because a victim is totally incapable of changing his or her environment. Victims spend massive amounts of time sucking the life out of everyone else because they live in a powerless state of mind. Victims believe that their external world has to change in order for them to be okay. Because a victim is so out of control internally, he or she feels an enormous need to control everyone else.

Believers can, however, be oppressed by coming under the control of a demonic spirit and have their lives broken into pieces through a lifestyle of sin,

As Christians, we cannot be possessed in the sense that a demon would control our minds and actions, because when we receive Jesus, our bodies become the house of the Holy Spirit.

The truth is, you do not always have power over what happens to you, but you do have complete control over what happens in you.

when the evil spirit lost the ability to scare me, it no longer had power over me.

Even the idyllic garden of Eden was a war zone. The command to rule and subdue put God's image bearers on high alert that fierce resistance lay ahead.

Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power

Money, we know, will fetch anything and command the service of any man.

There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.

If a man own land, the land owns him.

The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.

There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell.