Quotes about Control

The American police are involved in psychological warfare against those Americans who don't frighten them with imposing papers and threats. It's a Victorian police force; it peers out of musty windows and wants to inquire about everything, and can make crimes if the crimes don't exist to its satisfaction.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.

Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead. Many Christian empire-builders have been people unable to give and receive love.

I have learned from personal experience that putting trust in God means there will be some unanswered questions. That was a hard lesson for me because I naturally want to understand everything... to know what's going on so I can feel like I'm in control.

Occasional setbacks are probably unavoidable - part of the struggle of living in a fallen world. Other setbacks are due to our own sin and failures, or circumstances outside our control.

Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.

Emotions were like wild horses and it required wisdom to be able to control them

you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry

I want to encourage you to place yourself totally into God's hands and allow Him to be the Manager of your life.

Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?

When anger enters the mind, wisdom departs.