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Your decisions . . . along with your responses to other people’s decisions, which are also your decisions...are about the only thing you can control in life, which means your decisions are how you con... -
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What do you want to achieve? Greater riches? Cheaper chicken? A happier life, a longer life? Is it power over your neighbors that you are after? Are you only running away from your death? Or are you s... -
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The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words. -
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Most Christians salute the sovereignty of God but believe in the sovereignty of man. -
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Manipulation is the use of influence to control others for personal gain. It is the dark side of influence. … While manipulation is inherently evil, influence is the best way to lead and move others t... -
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If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by admitting the three most terrible truths of our existence: that we are so ruined, and so lov... -
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My secret is that I want to be relevant and popular. I want my desires fulfilled and pain minimized. I want a manageable relationship with an institution rather than messy relationships with real peop... -
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There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine! -
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When mechanical clocks began to spring up in town squares across Europe, the line between keeping time and keeping control blurred further. -
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Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God. -
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When you accept the fact that sometimes seasons are dry and times are hard and that God is in control of both, you will discover a sense of divine refuge, because the hope then is in God and not in yo... -
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Crises serve to remind us that we are fundamentally not in control. -
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Fearful people live within restrictive boundaries…. People who live in fear feel compelled to remain in control. They attempt to control themselves and they attempt to control their world. Often despi... -
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I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business. -
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The God who loans you life sees your every move, hears each word you speak, knows your every thought. You are seen by God. Noticed. Known. -
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. -
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. -
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The opposite of faith isn't doubt; it's certainty and control. -
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The circumstances we ask God to CHANGE are often the circumstances God is using to CHANGE US. -
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Faith is a free surrender and a joyous wager on the unseen, unknown, untested goodness of God. -
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Let’s state the obvious, because the obvious is easy to take for granted and forget. You are not other people. You are you. You have no control over other people. You have no absolute control over wha... -
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The difference between forming ourselves and being formed is the vital issue of control. -
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The point is this. If you want to know what it means to talk about God being ‘in charge of’ the world, or being ‘in control’, or being ‘sovereign’, then Jesus himself instructs you to rethink the noti... -
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Whatever controls us is our lord. The person who seeks power is controlled by power. The person who seeks acceptance is controlled by acceptance. We do not control ourselves. We are controlled by the ... -
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Fear and control are the basis for all human religions. From this common beginning the paths diverge dramatically, splinter, multiply, and finally terminate in different places. But each one is an att... -
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Sin is a deep interior dislocation of the soul. It's a desire to keep control of your life. -
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself. -
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Sometimes trust takes time. We all love to be in control, but when you start to give some of that up, it's freeing. Start with some of the little things. Give those things up to the Lord. -
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I asked her what was so scary about unmerited free grace? She replied something like this: If I was saved by my good works -- then there would be a limit to what God could ask of me or put me through....
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