Quotes about Yield

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

I give the Self Life to you, God. I abandon it, release it, deny it, turn it over to you. I'd much rather have you.

True it is that every man willingly followeth his own bent, and is the more inclined to those who agree with him. But if Christ is amongst us, then it is necessary that we sometimes yield up our own opinion for the sake of peace. Who is so wise as to have perfect knowledge of all things? Therefore trust not too much to thine own opinion, but be ready also to hear the opinions of others.

But if Christ is amongst us, then it is necessary that we sometimes yield up our own opinion for the sake of peace.

For nothing [...] is more heavenly than to resist and to yield; to yield and to resist.

To yield is to be preserved whole.To be bent is to become straight.To be empty is to be full.To be worn out is to be renewed.To have little is to possess.To have plenty is to be perplexed.

Bad weather never stopped anyone from reaping a good harvest.

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.

The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret. 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, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.

There is a love constraining me To go and seek the lost; I yield, O Lord, my all to Thee To save at any cost!

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, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.