Quotes about Control

We tend to have a limited concept of spiritual death as saying no only to things we want or covet -- our guilty pleasures and selfish ambitions. But in reality, it means dying inwardly to whatever has control over us. The thing that really controls us may not be what we want. It may be what we fear. Fear can dominate our lives just as strongly as desire.

The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.

A man's free to do what he wants with his life, until he falls foul of the banks.

God gave animals a lower rank, in the service of man.

It is heaven that rules.

God's end is to enable me to see that he can walk on the chaos of my life just now.

Never believe that the so-called random events of life are anything less than God's appointed order.

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