Quotes About Yielding

I wasn't looking for a diversion, or a way to soothe my pain. I wasn't looking for an alternative. I just gave in to the ease of it. That was all.

The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.

T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop them and the radiance comes. (16)

In Buddhist systems, more especially those of Tibet, the meditation Buddhas appear in two aspects, one peaceful and the other wrathful. If you are clinging fiercely to your ego and its little temporal world of sorrows and joys, hanging on for dear life, it will be the wrathful aspect of the deity that appears. It will seem terrifying. But the moment your ego yields and gives up, that same meditation Buddha is experienced as a bestower of bliss.

When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

At such times you give yourself over to His will. There is no opposition to God, there is only surrender.

Why is it when you yield, I feel like the one who has been conquered?

Perhaps it took several generations to make a man, perhaps it took several combinations and re-creations of his mother's gentleness and resilience, his father's enormous energy and appetite for the new, a subtle blending of masculine and feminine, selfish and selfless, stubborn and yielding, before a proper man could be fashioned.

We often try all of our strategies for life, but it is interesting that when God orchestrates our lives and puts us into an imprisoned situation that we can't get out of, we learn what it means to be yielded to Jesus Christ.

to subdue one's self to other people's ends was dust and ashes.

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.

Repentance must involve a change of life, bringing our lives into harmony with God's will. This means turning away from sin and yielding to the transforming work of the Spirit so we may grow in virtue.

The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.

Surrender is working with what happens.

Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.

The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.

I'm strong," the woman replied. "I can take this." Henry said, "You have always been strong, Leah, but a sweat is not about enduring. It is about yielding.

God, make me willing to be made willing.

A key to everything is surrender - to really come before the Lord and say, 'I will literally stay here as long as you want me to stay' or 'God, I will really go anywhere on the earth.'

There is no limit to what God can do through us if we are a yielded and purified people.

It hurts when God has to PRY things out of our hand!

Brokenness is the shattering of my self-will - the absolute surrender of my will to the will of God.

We cannot enjoy peace in this world unless we are ready to yield to the will of God in respect of death. Our times are in His hand, at His sovereign disposal. We must accept that as best.

Will you ask God to bring you to the place where you're willing to be willing?