Quotes about Control
Luke warm people are continually concerned with playing it safe; they are slaves to the god of control. This focus on safe living keeps them from sacrificing and risking for God.
- Francis Chan
All hurricanes are acts of God because God controls the heavens. I believe that New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God and they were recipients of the judgment of God for that.
- John Hagee
Fear is that passion which hath the greatest power over us, and by which God and His laws take the surest hold of us.
- John Tillotson
Kingdom Authority is the God-given mandate of Christians to exercise control over the world in the name of Jesus and under His oversight.
- Adrian Rogers
God is a God of systems and predictability and order, and God honors planning.
- Andy Stanley
In times of weakness, choose to put yourself under God's control.
- Stormie Omartian
The hand of the wicked can't stir one moment before God allows them to begin, and...one moment after God commands them to stop.
- JC Ryle
Creatures are so governed by the secret counsel of God, that nothing happens but what he has knowingly and willingly decreed.
- John Calvin
We cannot enjoy peace in this world unless we are ready to yield to the will of God in respect of death. Our times are in His hand, at His sovereign disposal. We must accept that as best.
- John Owen
God overrules all mutinous accidents, brings them under His laws of fate, and makes them all serviceable to His purpose.
- Marcus Aurelius
I think to trust in the sovereignty of God does not excuse my personal responsibility. Just the opposite - it equips me to be personally responsible.
- Max Lucado
God has given us control over one thing in our lives - our thoughts.
- Napoleon Hill