Quotes about Yielding

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.

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.

God never crushes a man's will into surrender, He never beseeches him, He waits until the man yields up his will to Him.

PRAYER THOUGHT: Through Your mercy and grace, Lord, I truly and completely yield myself to You.

Now we are in your hands. Do to us whatever seems good and right to you.”

But if He should say, ‘I do not delight in you,’ then here I am; let Him do to me whatever seems good to Him.”

As for me, here I am in your hands; do to me what you think is good and right.

Israel was a luxuriant vine, yielding fruit for himself. The more his fruit increased, the more he increased the altars. The better his land produced, the better he made the sacred pillars.

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).