Quotes about Control

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other

One must do violence to the object of one's desire when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.

What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you...every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.

You cannot keep birds from flying over your head but you can keep them from building a nest in your hair

Here again Diatribe confidently brings in a gloss to suit herself, just as if Scripture were under her complete control. As for considering the prophet's meaning and intention, what need was there for a man of such authority to do that? All we need is: Erasmus says so, therefore it is so.

This is the wonderful power of God, that He rules over all as individuals and over individuals as all. And He knows all things.

When we try to dictate to God the time, place, and manner for him to act, we are testing him. At the same time, we're trying to see if he is really there. When we do this we are putting limits on God and trying to make him do what we want. It's nothing less than trying to deprive God of his divinity. But we must realize that God is free—not subject to any limitations. He must dictate to us the place, manner, and time that he will act.

I am convinced that the universe is under the control of a loving purpose, and that in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship.

The mariner will have dominion over the atmosphere and the great deep, over the fish of the sea and the fowls of the air.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.