God Has Control Quotes

#1. God has control over everything, and obviously, everything to everyone is god-given.

Troy Polamalu

#2. Hope gives us a reason to live and to make plans for our future. But common sense gives us knowledge that God has control over our life. Life is a journey. We hope and plan our future as we travel each day.

Ellen J. Barrier

#3. I think I just learned that God has a plan for all of us, and I work hard and do all the things I can, but at the same time, His will is perfect; and me trying to control it, it's not going to work.

Matt Holliday

#4. You've got to believe that God is in control of your life. It may be a tough time but you've got to believe that God has a reason for it and he's going to make everything good.

Joel Osteen

#5. When I don't know where to turn, You always draw me near; when I start to feel alone, I can feel Your presence here, reminding me of everything I ever need to have or be has already found a place somewhere inside of me.

Lisa Mischelle Wood

#6. No one wins when you compare. You don't win. Your family doesn't win. Your friends don't win. You must be in control and not let comparison take hold of your mind. Rather, focus on yourself, your family, and where God has you in your life.

Jessica N. Turner

#7. Worry is allowing problems and distress to come between us and the heart of God. It is the view that God has somehow lost control of the situation and we cannot trust Him. A legitimate concern presses us closer to the heart of God and causes us to lean and trust on Him all the more.

Gary E. Gilley

#8. As much as we might want to control God, history has proven that he is notoriously uncooperative.

Skye Jethani

#9. When it is going well, it is the best job [writing] in the world. For those few hours, you are god, in control of everything. However, for me, the great joy of writing is that it has allowed me to travel the world in search of stories.

Michael Scott

#10. I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

William S. Burroughs

#11. This is a day that God has given me. It's a gift. I can never relive this day. And I'm not going to live it angry, in unforgiveness, and mad at somebody. If I don't get my way, I'm going to believe that God's still in control.

Joel Osteen

#12. Every time the sky cries, it is because an angel has died ... Lucifer started a war in Heaven, and it persists even now. So if God cannot keep his angels under control, what makes you believe that he can keep humanity under control?

Lionel Suggs

#13. The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.

Tom Clancy

#14. The Christian life is one of faith, where we find ourselves routinely overdriving our headlights but knowing it's okay because God is in control and has a purpose behind it.

Bill Hybels

#15. Many of us rely on our own illusion of control. But when God makes it known to you that you're not the one steering the ship, be thankful. He has removed the illusion, and forced you to rely only on Him.

Yasmin Mogahed

#16. If there is a single circumstance that can occur outside of God's control, then God is not God, and He cannot be trusted. That's what sovereignty means - God is God, no one else is, and He has absolute control.

Justin Buzzard

#17. This story means that we must live in full consciousness of the miracle of divine providence, understanding that God has total hands-on control of the world - and that all of life is to be lived for him without fear and with increasing expectation. R. Kent Hughes

Anonymous

#18. Ultimately, no person, or no circumstance has control of you - that control belongs to you and you only. So grasp God's hand and return to the freedom that he died to give you.

Henry Cloud

#19. God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

Joyce Meyer

#20. Faith to me is having absolute certainty that God is in control of my life and that He has my best interests at heart.

Dan Ellis

#21. If you would stop worrying about things you don't control and release what God has put into you, you will change everything around you.

Steve Maraboli

#22. Empowered Women 101: If he has to destroy other people to raise your self esteem and level of trust then he is not a son of God and guess what your not a daughter of God for letting him do it.

Shannon L. Alder

#23. Revelation announces that God is still in control and that he will conclude this stage of history the way he has promised. He

Craig S. Keener

#24. When we live by faith, we believe that God has everything under control. But if we start to worry, how we live says the opposite.

Craig Groeschel

#25. Faith is a thing of the mind. If you do not believe that God is in control and has formed you for a purpose, then you will flounder on the high seas of purposelessness, drowning in the currents and drifting further into nothingness.

Ravi Zacharias

#26. God grant ... that he may learn to understand in time, that whoso is minded to do as he himself wills will soon enough see the day when he will find he has done that which he had never willed.

Sigrid Undset

#27. Whether it's a Christian or a non-Christian, there's nothing like suffering to show us how small, needy, and not in control we are. Suffering has a way of sobering us up to the realization that we can't make it on our own, that we need help, that we're broken.

Tullian Tchividjian

#28. I'm not a deeply religious person and I don't really know if there's a God or not and I don't really even care, but something out there has got to control something. Because people can put a gun in their mouth and pull the trigger and live and someone else can slip on the curb and die.

Sonny Barger

#29. God has given us control over one thing in our lives - our thoughts.

Napoleon Hill

#30. What a frightful weapon is human thought! It is our defense and our safeguard, the most precious gift that God has made us. It is ours and it obeys us; we may launch it forth into space, but, once outside of our feeble brains, it is gone; we can no longer control it.

Alfred De Musset

#31. I want my life to radiate what happens when God has a person's heart at His full control, when every event or circumstance is simply another avenue to know Him better and show forth His glory.

Priscilla Shirer

#32. Freedom has real meaning when, for example, a situation of temptation arises and one remains God-fearing, steadfast, and in control of one's actions.

Hamza Yusuf

#33. If he who has control of men ought not to control the laws, then he who controls the laws ought not control men: otherwise his laws would minister to his passions..

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#34. When you believe in God, you've got to believe in the all-powerful God. He's not just God, He's the all-powerful God and He has total control over everyone's life. The Devil, on the other hand, is a real character that's trying his hardest to tear your life apart.

Alice Cooper

#35. I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

Mahatma Gandhi

#36. God indeed has given the earth under to the control of man.

Sunday Adelaja

#37. Sometimes we control our family members because we idolize and idealize our perfect plan over the journey that God has laid out for them. (p. 56)

Mary E. DeMuth

#38. America indeed has become a progressive nation, if we understand "progressive" to mean progressing away from God, his incomparable blessings, and the moral foundation that made America great, and advancing toward a mythical utopia where mankind is in control of mankind (think "Lord of the Flies").

Ron Brackin

#39. God has a plan for your personal world, but it depends on you fulfilling it by first taking control of your mind and your mouth.

Cindy Trimm

#40. God has given us peace in our pain. He covers us all the time. Even when we are out of control, he is still there.

Max Lucado