Quotes About Yielding To God

#1. It is only by yielding to God that we can begin to realize His will for us. And if we truly trust God, why not yield to His loving omniscience? After all, He knows us and our possibilities much better than do we.

Neal A. Maxwell

#2. When a person, yielding to God and believing the truth of God, is filled with the Spirit of God, even his faintest whisper will be worship.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#3. Confession and repentance might be described as the negative side of submission; this involves getting rid of everything which hinders God's control over our lives. Yielding to God might be described as the positive side ... placing ourselves totally into the hands of God.

Billy Graham

#4. Yielding to God's will can be hard. And sometimes, it really hurts. But it always brings peace.

John M. Perkins

#5. Yielding your inner life to God will empower you to live the kind of outer life that honors the Lord and blesses others.

Jim George

#6. The old order changeth, yielding place to new, and god fulfills himself in many ways, lest one good custom should corrupt the world.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#7. A man who has no love in him is as barren as a cloud with no moisture, a tree with no fruits or a cow yielding no milk; he is ever far from God and can never earn His Grace.

Sathya Sai Baba

#8. Tezumen are the only people who beat themselves to death with their own suicide notes.

Terry Pratchett

#9. The righteousness that makes a man visit the sins of a father upon his children, is the righteousness of a devil, not the righteousness of God. When God visits the sins of a father on his children, it is to deliver the child from his own sins through yielding to inherited temptation.

George MacDonald

#10. Abby Hoffman said we should all eat what we kill. That would put an end to war.

Louise Penny

#11. Fanciful spiritualizing, so far from yielding God's meaning, actually obscured it. The literal sense is itself the spiritual sense, coming from God and leading to Him.

J.I. Packer

#12. Here again we witness the single outcome of a worldwide process, with East and West yielding the same results, and once again for the same reason: Men have forgotten God.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#13. Men of an amiable, yielding temper, willing to take the lowest place; to be least of all; and the servants to all ... who live near God, and who are willing to suffer all things for Christ's sake without being proud of it - these are the men we need.

Ann Hasseltine Judson

#14. How are you sure we're alive?

Eric S. Nylund

#15. And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

Anonymous

#16. I want all my stuff to be converted into digital format so I can have my reference library to carry with me wherever I go.

Jim Lee

#17. God leaves to our conscience the choice of the road we decide to follow, and the liberty of yielding to one or another of the opposing influences that act upon us.

Allan Kardec

#18. Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God.

George Whitefield

#19. Because of her, there is no bridge between dreams and reality. In reality, because of her, drinking a glass of water has taste. In a dream, it doesn't have taste, unless she's in it with me. I do not have to dream about her, because all of my dreams about her, is my only reality.

Lionel Suggs

#20. No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level.

Livy

#21. Death means you stop being. You must agree with God and stop being the intensely striving kind of Christian you have been. We avoid the cemetery and continually refuse our own death. It will not happen by striving, but by yielding to death.

Oswald Chambers

#22. Real success in the kingdom of God is not about being strong and looking good and knowing all the right answers. It's about continually yielding oneself to Jesus and determining to take purposeful little steps of obedience, and the ragged reality that it's all about God and His grace at work in us.

Mary Beth Chapman