Pastoral Resources

The ego constantly competes with the spirit for control over your inner voice.

Although most of us realize what we control and do not control, we live as though we do not really know, and in some cases we spend years focusing on things we cannot control.

Giving up represents a choice you make when you decide not to take action on something over which you actually do have control.

When you choose not to take action on something because you realize you have no control, this is letting go.

When you accept the fact you have no control and choose not to take any action, you are letting go.

Not really in all honesty because until you take control of your own health and go to your own doctor and have your own doctor tell you what's going to work for you.

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

The difference today is that, in both parties, the very extreme elements control the nomination process.

But everyone gets burnt, don't they? Certain things are outside of your control. I suppose the only thing you can learn as a director is to not put yourself into situations where it can get outside of your control. And that's what happened.

The negative side is that sometimes it is beyond control.

Unlike life, you've got more or less complete control over what's going on in your stories. That's not to say you can make characters do whatever you want them to - they usually have a life of their own if you've done your job properly.

In November, they transferred control of Abu Ghraib to the military intelligence command completely; it was, after all, the center for interrogations for Iraq.

Military police know what to do, they know the Geneva Conventions, and their objective is to provide a safe, secure, fair environment for prisoners under their control.

We need to fix this. It hasn't been done yet because there's still a reluctance to admit that there was even a problem - anywhere above seven rogue soldiers who got out of control on the night shift.

First of all, we have to go back to the classical time control.

Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.

The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it.

We must... guarantee women control over their own reproductive decisions.

If we do not voluntarily bring population growth under control in the next one or two decades, the nature will do it for us in the most brutal way, whether we like it or not.

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.