Quotes About Yielding

When you have learned God's secret of trusting, you will see that a life yielded up to His working is one of rest and power.

Would you fight a woman, Mr. Radigan? I thought Western men more gallant." There was no yielding in Radigan. "When you opened the ball," he replied, "you called the tune.

I'll let my castle go

Essentially, pride is a 'my will' rather than 'thy will' approach to life.

Not my will, but thine, be done.

and would again, found it expedient to comply.

It is so true that 'God will be no man's debtor.' When he asks for and receives our all, he gives in return that which is above price - his own presence. The price is not great when compared with what he gives in return; it is our blindness and our unwillingness to yield that make it seem great.

I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.

It is not as if we had to seek to have more of the Spirit: we have Him in the fulness of the gift as it is. It is rather the Holy Spirit who must have more of us. As we yield ourselves entirely to Him He will entirely fill us. It is from WITHIN that the blessing must come: the fountain of living water is already there; the fountain has only to be open and every obstruction cleared and the water shall stream forth. It must spring from WITHIN.

Master reverses

God has sanctified us in Christ Jesus: we are to be holy by yielding ourselves to the power of that holiness, by acting it out, and manifesting it in all our life and walk.

Humility is simply the sense of entire nothingness, which comes when we see how truly God is all, and in which we make way for God to be all. When the creature realizes that this is true goodness, and consents to be the vessel in which the life and glory of God are to work and exhibit themselves, he sees that humility is simply acknowledging the truth of his position as the creature, and yielding to God His rightful place.

The disciples had only to pray, believe, and yield themselves to the mighty power of Christ.

Being filled with the Spirit is simply this: The whole personality is yielded to His power. When the soul is yielded to the Holy Spirit, God himself will fill it.

Something about giving in without a fight felt wrong.

submitting to the will of another requires trust and humility.

People with dull lives often think that their lives are dull by chance. In reality everyone chooses more or less what kind of events will happen to them by their conscious patterns of blocking and yielding.

Therefore the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death. The gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.

The life that counts blessings discovers its yielding more than it seems.

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

and in long illness; and to see clearly in a living example that the same man can be both most resolute and yielding, and not peevish in giving his instruction; and to have had before my eyes a man

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.

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

I adore my Queen and I am here with you. I love you both. I yield to that entirely as well as everything else and even the knowledge I may be punished. And when I am punished, I shall dread it, and suffer it and understand it and accept it. when you accept you will flower in the pain, you will flower in your suffering