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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

If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences. — Anonymous

We may be excused for not always being bright, but we are not excused for not being gracious, yielding and considerate. — Saint Francis De Sales

There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it. — Honore De Balzac

Spade! Thou art a tool of honor in my hands. I press thee, through a yielding soil, with pride. — William Wordsworth

Drosophila has long been our main workhorse in genetics, yielding insight in the relation between chromosomes and genes. — Frans De Waal

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

Yielding to emotions such as anger or hurt or defensiveness will drive away the Holy Ghost. — Richard G. Scott

Whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. What is soft is strong. — Laozi

The old order changes yielding place to new. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

I deal with temptation by yielding to it. — Mark Twain

Yield to him who opposes you; by yielding you conquer. — Ovid

The female always surpasses the male with stillness. In her stillness she is yielding. — Laozi

I have been beaten, but I have not yielded. I'm not going to start yielding now. — Jim Butcher

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, to yielding. — Bette Davis

Love means giving up - yielding my preferences, comfort, goals, security, money, energy, or time for the benefit of someone else. — Rick Warren

Mothers yielding Bibles, contemplating smearing the blood of lamb chops over her doorway. Anything to keep her son alive another day. — Antonia Perdu

Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest! — John Buchanan Robinson

For we, when we feel, evaporate: oh, we
breathe ourselves out and away: from ember to ember,
yielding us fainter fragrance. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding. -Hestia — Rick Riordan

The living are soft and yielding; the dead are rigid and stiff. Living plants are flexible and tender; the dead are brittle and dry. — Laozi

If a branch is too rigid, it will break. Resist, and you will perish. Know how to yield, and you will survive. — Liezi

Perhaps all a Tsaritsa is is a beautiful cold girl in the snow, looking down at someone wretched, and not yielding. — Catherynne M Valente

There is nothing new about humanism. It is the yielding to Satan's first temptation of Adam and Eve: "Ye shall be as gods." (Gen. 3:5) — Billy Graham

Feeling powerless is the result of yielding to fearful thinking. — T.F. Hodge

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

Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation. — Clarence Darrow

Yielding is the manner of the Way. — Laozi

Yielding, like ice about to melt. — Laozi

If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk — Jane Austen

By fighting you never get enough, but by yielding you get more than you expected. — Dale Carnegie

Anger was a weapon to be honed and treasured and used only at the moment yielding most premium. — Terry Pratchett

Tyranny is yielding to the lust of the governing. — John Fletcher

By yielding you may obtain victory — Ovid

Education has to cultivate humility and discipline, but today it is yielding a harvest of pride and envy. — Sai Baba

A diamond, which is the hardest of stones, not yielding unto steel, emery or any other thing, is yet made soft by the blood of a goat. — Thomas Browne

Not all powers are spectacular. Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding. — Rick Riordan

I'd always dread this part of being a guest in the morning - the tentative yielding into the house's normal traffic. — Kaui Hart Hemmings

Real loves means a yielding of the heart to another person. It means commitment, loyalty, and trust. — Wanda E. Brunstetter

He preferred yielding his own wish to gratify others, rather than to insist upon having his own way. — Ulysses S. Grant

Yielding flexibility is a virtue of an ever-expanding heart. — Molly Friedenfeld

The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear. — Edmund Burke

Principles have a way of yielding to power. — Bette Lord

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

Yielding to God's will can be hard. And sometimes, it really hurts. But it always brings peace. — John M. Perkins

You really should discard your inhibitions,' he said. 'They could get in the way of yielding to temptation. — Lisa Kleypas

The life that counts blessings discovers its yielding more than it seems. — Ann Voskamp

Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims. — George Henry Lewes

The practice of diplomacy, I have found, is sometimes like eating soup with a fork: much activity yielding little nourishment. — Sheri S. Tepper

My implicit faith in nonviolence does mean yielding to minorities when they are really weak. — Mahatma Gandhi

The Japanese have a word for it. It's Judo - the art of conquering by yielding. The Western equivalent of Judo is, "Yes dear". — J. P. McEvoy

That the soft overcomes the hard, and the yielding overcomes the resistant, is a fact known by all, but practiced by few. — Laozi

Valour that parlies is neare yeelding.
[Valor that parleys is near yielding.] — George Herbert

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

The Christian confession is not a neutral proposition; it is prayer, only yielding its meaning within prayer. — Pope Benedict XVI

Yielding is the way of the Tao. — Laozi

She feels bruised by her reading and by life too. She wonders, does she always fight her books before yielding to them? — Austin Wright

Both the teardrop and the tempest are made of water, making it the most yielding and most destructive force on Earth. — Fiona Paul

Art is an attempt to understand, yielding pleasure in the attempt whether or not we understand. — Robert Breault

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

The point of politics is to keep multiple and irreducible goods in play, rather than yielding to some dream, Nazi or otherwise, of totality. - — Timothy Snyder

Profound changes to how children access vast information is yielding new forms of peer-to-peer and individual-guided learning. — Sugata Mitra

It is necessary ... to yield to the storm, purchase a peace, and wait patiently for better times. — Alexandre Dumas

Being bridled, or yielding obediently to restraint, is necessary for our personal growth and progression. — James E. Faust

In Dante the hero would rather flee and renounce the tempting embrace instead of yielding to his desires and enduring the attendant dangers. — Peter Weiss

I can wade through contrast and give birth to desires without yielding my Well Being. — Esther Hicks

The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward. — Joseph Campbell

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep. — Queen Elizabeth II

Drug addiction is an evil, and with evil there can be no yielding or compromise, — Pope Francis

Nothing on earth is so weak and yielding as water, but for breaking down the firm and strong it has no equal. — Laozi

No matter how far back Ned searched in the brittle yellowed pages, always he found the gold yielding before the coal. — George R R Martin

If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past. — Dean Acheson

You don't argue just to have a voice in a fight, you fight for a resolution. Love is yielding. — Love Belvin

I loved the city. We were anonymous, and even then I had the sense that cities were yielding; that they moved over and made room. — Sheridan Hay

To submit isn't to be forced. It's to yield to a force greater than your own, in order to become part of the whole. — Dianna Hardy

Dying is not difficult, yielding is impossible. — Jane Swisshelm

Water is fluid, soft & yielding but water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield ... what is soft is strong. — Lao-Tzu

Always only the desire to die and the not-yet-yielding; this alone is love. — Franz Kafka

Develop flexibility and you will be firm; cultivate yielding and you will be strong. — Liezi

The fact is, successful relationships and healthy cultures are not built on the claiming of rights but on the yielding of rights. — Nancy Leigh DeMoss

There is a certain delicacy which in yielding conquers; and with a pitiful look makes one find cause to crave help one's self. — Philip Sidney

If your hunch proves a good one, you were inspired; if it proves bad, you are guilty of yielding to thoughtless impulse. — Beryl Markham

True faith is not hard at all. It is soft in its resilience, yielding in its certitude - the vehicle for absolute grace. — Karen Maezen Miller

All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment. — Blaise Pascal

Most women wish to feel that their spirit has been violated. Do they not, indeed, flatter themselves on never yielding save to force? — Honore De Balzac

I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding. — Socrates