Top 52 Yield To God Quotes
#1. I see that if I would be happy in God, I must give Him all. And there is a wicked reluctance to do that. I want Him
but I want to have my own way, too. I want to walk humbly and softly before Him and I want to go where I shall be admired and applauded. To whom shall I yield? To God? Or to myself?
Elizabeth Payson Prentiss
#2. There is a powerful shifting that takes place as we abandon the right to understand and yield to God's working in our lives.
Jo Ann Fore
#3. The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God.
William Ames
#4. When you yield yourself in complete and wholehearted obedience to God, He can do great things through you.
Jim George
#5. I yield to nobody in my admiration for God, but he's no good in bed.
Ariana Franklin
#6. In the name of God, Monsieur, let us not be so little attached to God's service that we yield to a useless fear which may cause us to abandon the task He has given us.
Vincent De Paul
#7. Although it hath pleased God to hasten my death by you, by whom my life should rather have been lengthened, yet can I patiently take it, that I yield God more hearty thanks for shortening my woeful days.
Jane Grey
#8. If the love of God will not induce the rebel to yield the terrors of an eternal hell will not drive him to repentance,
Ellen G. White
#10. Judge not; the workings of his brain
And of his heart thou canst not see;
What looks to thy dim eyes a stain,
In God's pure light may only be
A scar, brought from some well-won field,
Where thou wouldst only faint and yield.
Adelaide Anne Procter
#11. All things therefore are charged with love, are charged with God and if we knew how to touch them give off sparks and take fire, yield drops and flow, ring and tell of him.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
#12. Our prayers must not be efforts to bend God to our will but to yield ourselves to His.
Catherine Marshall
#13. Christ is the great masterkey of all the chambers of God: there is no treasure-house of God which will not open and yield up all its wealth to the soul that lives near to Jesus.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#14. We cannot enjoy peace in this world unless we are ready to yield to the will of God in respect of death. Our times are in His hand, at His sovereign disposal. We must accept that as best.
John Owen
#15. Never yield to gloomy anticipation. Place your hope and confidence in God. He has no record of failure
Lettie Cowman
#16. That we should feed and nourish our souls with high notions of GOD; which would yield us great joy in being devoted to Him.
Brother Lawrence
#17. The spirit of the gospel is optimistic; it trusts in God and looks on the bright side of things. The opposite or pessimistic spirit drags men down and away from God, looks on the dark side, murmurs, complains, and is slow to yield obedience.
Orson F. Whitney
#18. Prayer is not meant to be a burden or used as a badge of holiness. Instead, it is a gift of God that when used properly should yield great victory in our lives.
Paul Silway
#19. 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.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#20. Yield your heart and life to Jesus Christ. Be faithful to Him, no matter what men may do. The important thing is not the praise of men; it is the approval of God.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#21. And so the Holiness of God is that infinite Perfection by which He keeps Himself free from all that is not Divine, and yet has fellowship with the creature, and takes it up into union with Himself, destroying and casting out all that will not yield itself to Him.
Andrew Murray
#22. When you're in love with God, you're not afraid to yield your life to Him.
Heidi Baker
#23. The obedience which God's children yield to Him must be loving obedience. Do not go about the service of God as slaves to their taskmaster's toil, but run in the way of His commands because it is your Father's way.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#24. We often do not yield ourselves to God in obedience to His commandment to love our fellow men with Christ's love. What if that love should flow out to all around, even to those who hate us? This would require much grace and cost us time and trouble and serious prayer.
Andrew Murray
#25. 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
#26. It is an easy matter, Olav, to be a good Christian so long as God asks no more of you than to hear sweet singing in church, and to yield Him obedience while He caresses you with the hand of a father. But a man's faith is put to the test on the day God's will is not his.
Sigrid Undset
#27. 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
#28. We are to yield to the authority God has in place, and look to Him to find out what He would have us to do about those things that are concerning to us.
Monica Johnson
#29. And the will therein lieth, which dieth not. Who knoweth the mysteries of the will, with its vigor? For God is but a great will pervading all things by nature of its intentness, Man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.
Joseph Glanvill
#30. All genuine progress results from finding new facts. No law can be passed to make an acre yield three hundred bushels. God has already established the laws. It is four us to discover them, and to learn the facts by which we can obey them.
Wheeler McMillen
#31. True wisdom is marked by willingness to listen and a sense of knowing when to yield.
Elizabeth George
#32. And now ... farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude. I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.
Alexandre Dumas
#33. We must yield to the power of words. Even God has chosen words to communicate with his creatures like us
Munia Khan
#34. The characteristic of the new birth is that I yield myself so completely to God that Christ is formed in me.
Oswald Chambers
#35. 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.
Arthur W. Pink
#36. 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.
Bill Johnson
#37. God must do everything for us. Our part is to yield and trust
A.W. Tozer
#38. Perhaps you will have to spend hours on your knees or upon your face before the throne. Never mind. Wait. God will do great things for you if you will wait for Him. Yield to Him. Cooperate with Him.
John Smith
#39. We must desire to be separated unto the Lord from the world and its evil system. We must reckon ourselves dead to sin and alive to God. This is true positionally, but it can be made true in our spiritual life only as we yield to the Holy Spirit's control.
Theodore Epp
#40. In all other matters I will yield to any man whatsoever; but I have neither the power nor the will to deny the Word of God.
Martin Luther
#41. Friends, suffering, marriage, environment, study and recreation are influence which shape character. The strongest influence, if you are generous enough to yield to it, is the grace of God.
Hubert Van Zeller
#42. Even in these darkest of hours, she knew that Jesus had not abandoned her. Her life was unfolding as God wished it to, and she must not yield to the soul-destroying effects of despair. "Well,
Elizabeth Camden
#43. ... being an atheist required discipline very like that of being Catholic. One could never yield to the idea of a supernatural authority, no matter how often one might be tempted. To think that a personal God had made the world was to yield to a demonic and superstitious and destructive belief.
Anne Rice
#44. But he'd seen elite warriors go down in flames enough times to struggle with the sovereignty of God yet yield to it
Ronie Kendig
#45. When we yield ourselves completely to God, He gives Himself completely to us.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#46. You are exactly who the Greatest You (aka God) most wanted to be, not a frail offshoot who must bow, curtsey, and yield to this "higher power" but an unbeknownst Lord yourself.
Mike Dooley
#47. We are not sent into this world mainly to enjoy the loveliness therein, nor to sit us down in passive ease; no, we were sent here for action. The soul that seeks to do the will of God with a pure heart, fervently, does not yield to the lethargy of ease.
Dorothea Dix
#48. We pray because our life comes from God and we yield it back in prayer. Prayer is a great antidote to the illusion that we are self-made.
Walter Brueggemann
#49. Like any other sin, the stronghold is in the will, and the will or purpose to doubt must be surrendered exactly as you surrender the will or purpose to yield to any other temptation. God always takes possession of a surrendered will.
Hanna Whitall Smith
#50. There is not in the British empire a man who more cordially loves a union with Great Britain than I do. But by the God that made me, I will cease to exist before I yield to a connection on such terms as the British Parliament propose.
Thomas Jefferson
#51. Take you example by this thing,/ And yield to each his right,/ Lest God with such like miserye/ Your wicked minds requite
Various
#52. Every day I pray. I yield myself to God and the tensions and anxieties go out of me and peace and power come in.
Dale Carnegie
