Spiritual Control Quotes

When the Missionaries arrived, the Africans had the Land and the Missionaries had the Bible. They taught us how to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them, they had the land and we had the Bible.

To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world, is just as base as to use force.

Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

If you believe in the Devil, it means that you are already in his grip.

They become the keepers of the mystery. They place themselves between the communicants of the religion, and the immediate experience. And then they dictate the terms on which you can have contact with this wonderful mystery. We don't dictate those terms.

Power belongs only to God.

Lack of prayer says you've brought into the lie that life is manageable and you've got everything under control

The intellectual controls the spiritual, the animal respects the natural.

The question is not whether you would like to pray this prayer and ask Jesus to come into your heart - after all, you know, the handle to your heart is on the inside and if you do not open it Jesus cannot come in. My friend, Jesus is Lord of your heart and if He wants to come in, He will kick the door down.

... self-control is not control by oneself through one's own willpower but rather control of oneself through the power of the Holy Spirit.

My faith kind of keeps me in touch with the idea that I'm not in control of things.

As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

There is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, 'Mine.'

What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.

The divinity who rules within us, forbids us to leave this world without his command.

One great effect of prayer is that it enables the soul to command the body. By obedience I make my body submissive to my soul, but prayer puts my soul in command of my body.

The pilot of the Galilean lake; Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain).

In Scripture we read of two kinds of men-the spiritual man controlled by the Holy Spirit, and the "carnal" man who is ruled by his passions.

If you want to live the Christian life, you will have to realize that Someone Else has to be in control.

Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God

This naming of things is so crucial to possession - a spiritual padlock with the key thrown irretrievably away - that it is a murder, an erasing, and it is not surprising that when people have felt themselves prey to it (conquest), among their first acts of liberation is to change their names.

For although the will cannot be inwardly moved by any creature, yet it can be moved inwardly by God.

Some people think prayer is telling God what to do. I don't think that's the case.

Kingdom Authority is the God-given mandate of Christians to exercise control over the world in the name of Jesus and under His oversight.