Quotes about Yielding

We quench or grieve the Holy Spirit by refusing His authority over us. In other words, by choosing not to yield to Him.

Temptation is not a sin. It is the yielding that is sin. All temptation is from the devil.

His nature, being personal, is only expressed through personality, first revealed fully in Christ, and now expressed through his Spirit in the lives of those yielded to him.

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.

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

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

God is only truly known in the soul as we yield ourselves to Him, submit to His authority, and regulate all the details of our lives by His holy precepts and commandments.

God is only truly known in the soul as we yield ourselves to Him, submit to His authority, and regulate all the details of our lives by His holy precepts and commandments. "Then

it seemed to him as if he were beholding in a magic panorama a future where he himself was sliding into that pleasureless yielding to the small solicitations of circumstance, which is a commoner history of perdition than any single momentous bargain.

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.

Your part is to yield to My creative work in you, neither resisting it nor trying to speed it up.