Top 56 This Yoke Quotes
#1. I assumed this yoke would encase me as well as any another hobble. Only this one bound the mind.
Jazz Feylynn
#2. Virtue cannot dwell with slaves, nor reign O'er those who cower to take a tyrant's yoke.
William C. Bryant
#3. [Exchange] the galling burden of bachelorship for the easy yoke of matrimony.
James Madison
#4. This war is not an ordinary war. It is the war of the entire Russian people. Not only to eliminate the danger hanging over our heads, but to aid all people groaning under the yoke of Fascism
Joseph Stalin
#5. Yield not thy neck To fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance.
William Shakespeare
#6. Christ has liberated us into freedom. Therefore stand firm and don't submit again to a yoke of slavery. Galatians 5:1
Beth Moore
#7. In time the bull is brought to wear the yoke.
[Lat., Tempore ruricolae patiens fit taurus aratri.]
Ovid
#8. Can you say the following? Jesus is my Prophet. I've taken His yoke of Truth upon me. Jesus is my Priest. I rely on His sacrifice for sin to give me forgiveness of sins... Jesus is my King. I trust Him to deliver me from evil I submit to His authority over me.
Kenneth Mick
#9. Though Rome's gross yoke Drops off, no more to be endured, Her teaching is not so obscured By errors and perversities, That no truth shines athwart the lies.
Robert Browning
#10. But who can describe the overweening pride of men? Or women mad with passion, reckless in their hearts, soulmates to every kind of ruin that befalls us? Wild passion, unrestrained, boundless, that overcomes the women, perverts the yoke of wedlock for beasts and men alike.
Aeschylus
#11. Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity, insert into their ears the word of God, tie the yoke of Christ around their necks, and adorn their whole persons with the silk of sanctity and the damask of devotion.
Tertullian
#12. And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars
From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last!
William Shakespeare
#13. Obey every rule that will enhance your trust in God for greater work! Break every law that might cause a tear in your relationship with Him against your destiny!
Israelmore Ayivor
#14. All mental discipline and symmetrical growth are from activity of the mind under the yoke of the will or personal power.
Mark Hopkins
#15. Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery.
Aeschylus
#16. Ah! you wish us to be only objects of sensuality? All right; by the aid of sensuality we will bend you beneath our yoke,' say the woman.
Leo Tolstoy
#17. We must of necessity be servant to someone, either to God or to sin. The man who surrenders to Christ exchanges a cruel slave driver for a kind and gentle master whose yoke is easy and whose burden is light.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#18. So you see, we are not free to choose our fate. There is a yoke to be borne and freedom is only an illusion. I am not free. God has put me here on earth for a reason.
Naomi Ragen
#19. It is written: "It shall come to pass in that day that his burden will be taken away from your shoulder, and his yoke from your neck, and the yoke will be destroyed because of the anointing oil" (Isaiah 10:27).
David Kolomafe
#20. Let us trust in Him who has placed this burden upon us. What we ourselves cannot bear let us bear with the help of Christ. For He is all-powerful, and He tells us: 'My yoke is easy, and my burden light.'
Saint Boniface
#21. I fear yet this iron yoke of outward conformity hath left a slavish print upon our necks: the ghost of a linnen decency yet haunts us.
John Milton
#22. Isaiah 58:6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? To loose the bands of wickedness,to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and ye break every yoke?
Anonymous
#23. The belief in supernatural forces remains to this day a yoke on the neck of humanity, but at least Thales made it possible, for those of us who wish it, to be free of that yoke.
Victor J. Stenger
#24. Right gladly would He free them from their misery, but He knows only one way: He will teach them to be like himself, meek and lowly, bearing with gladness the yoke of His Father's will. This in the one, the only right, the only possible way of freeing them from their sin, the cause of their unrest.
George MacDonald
#25. To this must be added that the hiring of labor and the conduct of trade are concentrated in the hands of comparatively few; so that a small number of very rich men have been able to lay upon the teeming masses of the laboring poor a yoke little better than that of slavery itself.
Pope Leo XIII
#26. They have broken the yoke of the oppressor; and this they have done not by fighting but by surrendering.
A.W. Tozer
#27. It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love
this hunger of the heart
as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit to the yoke, and change the face of the world.
George Eliot
#28. His kingdom come! For this we pray in vain,
Unless He does in our affections reign.
How fond it were to wish for such a King,
And no obedience to his sceptre bring,
Whose yoke is easy, and His burthen light;
His service freedom, and His judgments right.
Edmund Waller
#31. The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.
John Jay Chapman
#32. O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From the world-wearied flesh
William Shakespeare
#33. It is not in understanding a set of doctrines; not in outward comprehension of the "scheme of salvation," that rest and peace are to be found, but in taking up, in all lowliness and meekness, the yoke of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Frederick William Robertson
#34. Happy he who far from business persuits
Tills and re-tills his ancestral lands
With oxen of his own breeding
Having no slavish yoke about his neck.
Horace
#35. Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.
Phyllis McGinley
#36. The Cadiz tribe, not used to bearing our yoke.
Horace
#37. Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion.
Mahatma Gandhi
#39. The soul is kissed by God in its innermost regions. With interior yearning, grace and blessing are bestowed. It is a yearning to take on God's gentle yoke, It is a yearning to give one's self to God's Way.
Hildegard Of Bingen
#40. If the users don't control the program, the program controls the users. With proprietary software, there is always some entity, the "owner" of the program, that controls the program and through it, exercises power over its users. A nonfree program is a yoke, an instrument of unjust power.
Richard Stallman
#41. Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you. Let me teach you, because I am humble and gentle at heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy to bear, and the burden I give you is light.
Anonymous
#42. Even my beloved Peng Choon, wonderful husband that he was, liked to think of himself as the smarter of us two, which for the sake of peace I allowed.
Selina Siak Chin Yoke
#43. To all the revolutionaries fighting to throw off the yoke of tyranny around the world: look at British democracy. Is that what you want?
Andy Zaltzman
#44. How true it is that, sooner or later, the' most rebellious must bow beneath the yoke of misfortune!
Madame De Stael
#45. Acting on our own, by ourselves, we cannot establish justice throughout the world, but joined with other free nations, we can ... assist the developing nations to throw off the yoke of poverty.
John F. Kennedy
#46. Grandmas can shed the yoke of responsibility, relax and enjoy their grandchildren in a way that was not possible when they were raising their own children. And they can glow in the realisation that here is their seed of life that will harvest generations to come.
Erma Bombeck
#47. Take care, take care. This city thrives! It's money gives you wings to soar. But it is a yoke on your shoulders and you would do well to take note of the bruise around your neck.
Jessie Burton
#48. The governments of Europe are afraid to trust the people with arms. If they did, the people would certainly shake off the yoke of tyranny, as America did.
James Madison
#49. think our country sinks beneath the yoke. It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash Is added to her wounds. I
William Shakespeare
#50. Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls." - MATTHEW 11:28
Sarah Young
#51. If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say: "Obey! Clench your teeth and obey!" And all good and evil shall be drowned in obedience to him.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#52. Oh, what an unbearable yoke is free will! What a vicious curse of the gods, granting self-determination to creatures incapable of guiding themselves! What good parent would free a child among tigers?
J. Robert King
#53. Loyalty is a word which has worked vast harm; for it has been made to trick men into being "loyal" to a thousand iniquities, whereas the true loyalty should have been to themselves - in which case there would have ensured a rebellion, and the throwing off of that deceptive yoke.
Mark Twain
#54. The more horses you yoke the quicker everything will go - not the rending of the block from its foundation, which is impossible, but the snapping of the traces and with that the gay and empty journey.
Franz Kafka
#56. Leonidas's and Dienekes' quips draw the individual out of his private terror and yoke him to the group.
Steven Pressfield
