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Our prayers must not be efforts to bend God to our will but to yield ourselves to His.
I will yield to popular demands only insofar as they do not betray my own convictions.
Willfulness must give way to willingness and surrender. Mastery must yield to mystery.
The way to grow grand is not: to demand. In life's every field you are what you yield.
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.
America is exceptional: but because it yields the likes of Obama, not the likes of Bush.
There must be vistas flying out beyond, that promise more than present conditions yield.
I don't think performance out of duty yields very much. Coercion is never the way to go.
Nature yields her most profound secrets to the person who is determined to uncover them.
The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
Affliction is a mother, Whose painful throes yield many sons, Each fairer than the other.
The discrepancy between equity earnings yields and Treasury yields is at an all time high
The combination of experience and experimentation will ultimately yield a personal sound.
Small things done consistently, though undramatic, yield more than the large and sporadic.
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
Bonds despite their ridiculous yields will not easily be threatened with a new bear market.
Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
For life, with all its yields of joy and woe Is just a chance o' the prize of learning love.
Treasurys, as low as yields are, are higher than they are in most other developed countries.
Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.
Lowered reliability obviously yields a lesser competence. But lowered breadth does so as well.
Crosses are of no use to us but inasmuch as we yield ourselves up to them and forget ourselves.
My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation.
Great conquests trouble, where contempt may please -- the one yields glory, and the other ease.
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
Sookie," Eric said. I didn't think he'd heard a word. "Yield to me." Well, that was pretty direct.
Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.
Barley, where it succeeds, yields a larger weight of feed per acre than any other small grain crop.
Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.
In no case can I permit myself to be a candidate of any party or yield myself to any party schemes.
Can you honestly say the environment(s) you are in will yield the kind of harvest you are expecting?
No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.
Peace, sweet peace finally comes to men when they humbly yield to the gentle pressure of the Spirit.
Only yield when you must, never "give up the ship," but fight on to the last "with a stiff upper lip!
We shall never be at peace with ourselves until we yield with glad supremacy to our higher faculties.
Tis easiest dealing with the firmest mind-- More just when it resists, and, when it yields, more kind.
Never yield to gloomy anticipation. Place your hope and confidence in God. He has no record of failure
Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.
Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter.
Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.
Awareness yields to itself, to its inherent creativity, to its expression in form, to experience itself.
The presidency does not yield to definition. Like the glory of a morning sunrise, it can be experienced.
Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.
He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
Certain subjects yield a general power that may be applied in any direction and should be studied by all.
A bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed.
Sometimes the most excruciating experiences in rehearsals and performances yield the most beautiful work.