Quotes about Control

Sanctification means being made one with Jesus so that the nature that controlled Him will control us.

The Christian who is truly intimate with Jesus will never draw attention to himself but will only show the evidence of a life where Jesus is completely in control.

All our fretting and worrying is caused by planning without God.

The first thing I must be willing to admit when I begin to examine what controls and dominates me is that I am the one responsible for having yielded myself to whatever it may be. If I am a slave to myself, I am to blame because somewhere in the past I yielded to myself. Likewise, if I obey God I do so because at some point in my life I yielded myself to Him.

The Christian who is truly intimate with Jesus will never draw attention to himself but will only show the evidence of a life where Jesus is completely in control. This

The real test of spiritual focus is being able to bring your thoughts and imagination under control. Is your mind focused on the face of an idol? Is the idol yourself? Is it your work?

The things that happen do not happen by chance—they happen entirely by the decree of God. God is sovereignly working out His own purposes.

We take such liberties with our circumstances, we do not believe God engineers them, although we say we do; we treat the things that happen as if they were engineered by men. To be faithful in every circumstance means that we have only one loyalty, and that is to our Lord. Suddenly God breaks up a particular set of circumstances

It is not on what we spend the greatest amount of time that molds us the most, but whatever exerts the most power over us.

Beware of the inclination to dictate to God what consequences you would allow as a condition of your obedience to Him.

Love is spontaneous, but it has to be maintained through discipline.

We cannot control our circumstances, but we can control our character.