You can not always control circumstances, but you can control your own thoughts.

Control your emotion or it will control you

If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem to be against us, we do not believe Him at all.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

We would have the ability to control, and flexibility to be able to respond to circumstances daily.

They appear to have a belief that through your own actions, you can exert control over your circumstances. They believe they could have and should have total control over their circumstances.