Quotes About Yielding

Life should always take precedence; when a wedding meets a funeral on the road, the funeral should step aside.

Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.

pride had allowed her to meet unbowed the news of MacFarlane's death and her renewed subjugation to Carr. Pride had kept her from giving up and yielding to her father's machinations.

It was because she was too yielding, too frightened of unpleasant scenes, that she had allowed herself to be dominated and repressed.

Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.

You really should discard your inhibitions,' he said. 'They could get in the way of yielding to temptation.

Yielding your inner life to God will empower you to live the kind of outer life that honors the Lord and blesses others.

When you yield yourself in complete and whole-hearted obedience to God, He can do great things through you.

A yielding shepherd could end up with a disobedient, rebellious herd.

Our devotion must culminate in a conscious yielding of every part of our personality, every ambition, every relationship, and every hope to Him. This done, we have reached the apex of personal devotion

When you think about renouncing your own will and embracing the will of God, let me suggest you bear three truths in mind. First of all, God loves you more than you love yourself. Second, God understands you better than you understand yourself. And third, God wants only the best for you. When you truly yield to God's will, you will discover that it is what the Bible says it is: "good and acceptable and perfect" (Romans 12:2).

I don't have hard edges.

I don't enter, I'm entered. It's up to someone else. It's up to them.

The gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.

When you no longer wish to defend, explain or fight then its time to give up...no matter how much you don't want to.

I wish I had learned to sail sooner in ministry rather than rowing so hard." I immediately thought of the way I have rowed so hard against the wind rather than hoisting a sail and yielding the boat of my life to the wind of God's Spirit—blowing my life wherever He wanted.

This means that our spiritual journey is not our setting out (by gathering information and applying it correctly) to find God (as an object "out there" to be grasped and controlled by us). It is a journey of learning to yield ourselves to God and discovering where God will take us.

requiring all things to recognize and yield to that authority, announcing that the authority of Jesus Christ is now in effect here.

One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.

Don't fight it. Let yourself be eaten." "Don't take this the wrong way, but I'm finding your advice to be less than one hundred percent helpful

The valley is usually greener than the hill tops. The deepest cut is the most result yielding one. Success is not easily found on the surface of everything you venture into one has to explore and go deeper.

had placed myself on the wrong side of her, she pivoted round me so skillfully that I found her arm resting on my own and fell quite naturally into her rhythm of precise and noble deportment. I yielded to this all the more readily because the Guermantes attached no more importance to it than a truly learned man does to his learning, with the result that one is less intimidated in his company than in that of an ignoramus;

Giving birth is not a matter of pushing, expelling the baby, but of yielding, surrendering to birth energy.

You win the victory when you yield to friends.