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“You'll drive yourself crazy trying to control something that isn't yours to control. Let go. Free yourself. Allow your mind and energy to focus on something positive to build something beautiful.”
“Woe is the mind of the common man, so easily controlled by the prospect of an ambition never to be truly attained. This is what tyrants live on and by what commoners are blissfully burdened and sub...”
“...I retreat into my fictional world where everything makes sense - but even there I can't even control what people do...”
“Neoclassical theology corrects misconceptions about God that are neither experientially true nor biblically grounded. If God were "omnipotent" in the sense of absolute determinism, then creation, a...”
“Sexual objectification doesn't get oppressive until it is done consistently, and to a specific group of people, and with no regard whatsoever paid to their humanity. Then it ceases to become about ...”
“Imagine a land where people are afraid of dragons. It is a reasonable fear: dragons possess a number of qualities that make being afraid of them a very commendable response. Things like their terri...”
“Maybe it frightened them, to admit that a woman could be master of her fate.”
“Be control of your mind.”
“Fear is what created the monster in the room, and in order to overcome the many problems and enslavements that we have today, it is not about getting rid of the monster, but about getting rid of th...”
“Never let fear control you, let faith take control.”
“Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factories, whose lives are filled with cause for rebellion, be ...”
“It is either you control your thoughts or be controlled by them.”
“It wouldn't be mind control, if you will know you've been under mind control.”
“I mind the unmindful, but I mind my own mind too. Mine your mind, and mine the minds of others. Mind.. you are mine!”
“Throwing down your staff is letting go and letting God. And that's counterintuitive for those of us who are control freaks. As our executive pastor Joel Schmidgall likes to say, "You can have faith...”
“This is my mind's garden, I tend it; I order it. I have nothing to fear.”
“A fool's mind is at the mercy of his tongue, and a wise man's tongue is under the control of his mind.”
“I can't help it. You bring it out in me," he accused. "No," I said. "You're choosing to let me get to you. Don't. It's all in the mind.”
“The truth is that most of life will unfold in accordance with forces far outside your control, regardless of what your mind says about it.”
“But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it isn't really abou...”
