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Quotes About Yielding

When a person, yielding to God and believing the truth of God, is filled with the Spirit of God, even his faintest whisper will be worship.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
The characteristic of the new birth is that I yield myself so completely to God that Christ is formed in me.
~ Oswald Chambers
Let God fling you out (as seed), and do not go until He does. If you select your own spot, you will prove an empty pod. If God sows you, you will bring forth fruit.
~ Oswald Chambers
Fanciful spiritualizing, so far from yielding God's meaning, actually obscured it. The literal sense is itself the spiritual sense, coming from God and leading to Him.
~ J. I. Packer
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
~ Quintilian
Have thine own way, Lord! Have thine own way!Thou art the Potter and I am the clay.
~ Chaim Potok
Revelation flows more quickly and easily through a yielded vessel. Higher realms of glory are available to those who humbly surrender themselves to the Holy Spirit.
~ James W. Goll
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~ James Woodford
Whenever tragic loss occurs, you either resist or you yield. Some people become bitter or deeply resentful; others become compassionate, wise, and loving. Yielding means inner acceptance of what is.You are open to life.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life. The only place where you can experience the flow of life is the Now, so to surrender is to accept the present moment unconditionally and without reservation. It is to relinquish inner resistance to what is.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life.
~ Eckhart Tolle
She had once more shown her talent for profiting by the unexpected, and dangerous theories as to the advisability of yielding to impulse were germinating under the surface of smiling attention which she continued to present to her companion.
~ Edith Wharton
the New Testament writers never hesitate to speak even of such very imperfect Christians as were found in abundance in churches like Corinth and Galatia as being all 'saints,' every man of them. That is not because the writers were minimising their defects, or idealising their persons, but because, if they are Christians at all, they are saints; seeing that no man is a Christian who has not been drawn by Christ's great sacrifice for him to yield himself a sacrifice for Christ. Of
~ Alexander MacLaren
I think I'm pretty coachable. I do what coaches ask of me.
~ Kenyon Martin
Stop trying. Stop forcing reality. Learn the mystery of surrender and trust, and then it will be done unto you, through you, with you, in you, and, very often, in spite of you.
~ Richard Rohr
Not all powers are spectacular. Hestia looked at me. Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding.
~ Rick Riordan
Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding. -Hestia
~ Rick Riordan
Not all powers are spectacular. Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding.
~ Rick Riordan
Surrender is hard work.
~ Rick Warren
She heard him moving about the room; every sound indicating impatience and irritation. Another time she would have gone in at his request. She would, through habit, have yielded to his desire; not with any sense of submission or obedience to his compelling wishes, but unthinkingly, as we walk, move, sit, stand, go through the daily treadmill of the life which has been portioned out to us.
~ Kate Chopin
All right. Then this is the whole shebang, boys, right here underfoot. Give up and admit it.
~ Ken Kesey
The ultimate act of power is surrender.
~ Krishna Das
Every day I pray. I yield myself to God and the tensions and anxieties go out of me and peace and power come in.
~ Dale Carnegie
Principles have a way of yielding to power.
~ Bette Lord