Quotes About Yielding

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

I deal with temptation by yielding to it

The relief of giving in to destruction.

But I'm so very glad that my resistance was futile!

But I want to give in to it sometimes

Submission is the willingness to give up our right to ourselves, to freely surrender our insistence on having our own way all the time.

The fact is, successful relationships and healthy cultures are not built on the claiming of rights but on the yielding of rights.

Faith was really quite easy. One had only to yield. To ask no questions. The more weary, the more weak, she became, the easier it was. Her religion was to her a kind of protective coloring, shielding her from the cruel light of an unbearable reality.

Prayer is the art of yielding to the wish and not the forcing of the wish.

The first thing I must be willing to admit when I begin to examine what controls and dominates me is that I am the one responsible for having yielded myself to whatever it may be. If I am a slave to myself, I am to blame because somewhere in the past I yielded to myself. Likewise, if I obey God I do so because at some point in my life I yielded myself to Him.

There is only one thing God wants of us, and that is our unconditional surrender.

The presence of evil) in his life provokes him into either overcoming it or yielding to it. If the first, it has led him to work for his own improvement; if the second it has led him to acknowledge his own weakness. Sooner or later, the unpleasant consequences of such weakness will lead him to grapple with it, and develop his power of will...Immediately and directly, it may either strengthen him or weaken him. Ultimately, it can only strengthen him.

ourselves to the will of God, not just when it makes

Lord, help me let go of control. Help me die. Help me trust.