Quotes About Yielding

Drosophila has long been our main workhorse in genetics, yielding insight in the relation between chromosomes and genes.

Every time you do something that comes from your needs for acceptance, affirmation, or affection, and every time you do something that makes these needs grow, you know that you are not with God. These needs will never be satisfied; they will only increase when you yield to them. But every time you do something for the glory of God, you will know God's peace in your heart and find rest there.

Even the little variety which I used was a yielding to the demands of appetite, and not of health. Yet men have come to such a pass that they frequently starve, not for want of necessaries, but for want of luxuries.

If you look upon the rule in Titus it is a rule to me. If you convince me that it is no rule I shall yield.

Parents should have perfect control over their own spirits, and with mildness and yet firmness bend the will of the child until it shall expect nothing else but to yield to their wishes.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.

Under questioning, a terrorist should be made to yield.

I grew up surrounded by generously yielding plum trees, and as a family we were constantly on the hunt for inspired ways to use up the lovely plums before age got the better of them.

de Caussade, Abandonment

William Stafford was describing (though he was talking about writing) when he wrote . . . Just as the swimmer does not have a succession of handholds hidden in the water, but instead simply sweeps that yielding medium and finds it hurrying him along, so the writer passes his attention through what is at hand, and is propelled by a medium too thin and all-pervasive for the perceptions of nonbelievers who try to stay on the bank and fathom his accomplishment.6

Paul says that in order to prove the will of God in our lives, we must become like Isaac. We must totally surrender ourselves to God, yielding to His purpose regardless of what it may be. Absolute abandon to God is the foundation in knowing His will.

Thousands of plant and animal varieties have fallen out of commerce in the last century as industrial agriculture has focused its attentions on a small handful of high yielding and usually patented varieties, with qualities that suited them to things like mechanical harvesting and processing.

Obedient to constraint, I was compelled to submit

Quien se entrega a otro como un soldado que se rinde, debe hacer previamente entrega de cualquier tipo de arma.

Anger was a weapon to be honed and treasured and used only at the moment yielding most premium.

True faith is not hard at all. It is soft in its resilience, yielding in its certitude — the vehicle for absolute grace.

pulling from the front. In that case, the smart move is to yield his lead to the trailing car and let the other driver pass. Relieved of his burden, our driver can tuck in behind and make the new leader drive his mirrors. Sometimes, however, it is important to hold one's position and not allow the pass. For strategic reasons, psychological

Yielding will overcome anything superior to itself; its strength is boundless.

a concession

There are some things you have to give up to the higher power.

It is very unkind of you to feel this way. Any woman should properly yield, it seems to me, even a complete stranger, because that is the way of the world.... All I desire is solace from the flood of memories that overwhelms me.

You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.

Capitulation—