Quotes about Yielding

Requiring all things to recognize and yield to that authority, announcing that the authority of Jesus Christ is now in effect here.

Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Was she like the prairie, only slowly yielding to God's plow in her life? She needed busting, then backsetting, and finally after snow and sun and rain, the seeds could be planted that would sprout into living wheat.

Real loves means a yielding of the heart to another person. It means commitment, loyalty, and trust.

is most vital that the Lord breaks us.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.

Imagine: to be prepared to yield, to yield, to have nothing more to yield, to be broken, yet to be pressed to yield more!

He preferred yielding his own wish to gratify others, rather than to insist upon having his own way.

Relinquishment is prerequisite to fulfillment.

My responsibility is to obey, to surrender my heart and to yield myself to the will of God. It is in the process of obedience that we gain understanding. You can't get the peace that passes understanding until you give up your right to understand.

God must do everything for us. Our part is to yield and trust

We can't take control, because control is not ours to take.