Quotes by Yoke Wherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are but beasts of burden. On others pride hushes them to silence; no complaint is made for they scorn pity or sympathy. On some it galls and chafes; they feel assured by every instinct of their nature that they were designed for a higher, nobler calling than to 'drag life's lengthening chain along. Abby May Alcott yoke silence pride Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery. Aeschylus slavery yoke 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 yoke light men I seek to lead a democratic Pakistan which is free from the yoke of military dictatorship and that will cease to be a haven, the very petri dish of international terrorism. Benazir Bhutto pakistan yoke military One cannot free oneself by bowing to the yoke, but by breaking it. Carl Jung oneself yoke It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed nor calls out his powers if pastured out with the common herd, that are destined for the collar and the yoke. Charles Caleb Colton foals yoke mind Losses and crosses are heavy to bear; but when our hearts are right with God, it is wonderful how easy the yoke becomes. Charles Spurgeon yoke loss heart Be sincere and true to your word, serious and careful in your actions; and you will get along even among barbarians, But if you are not sincere and untrustworthy in your speech, frivolous and careless in your actions, how will you get along even among your own neighbors? When stand, see these principles in front of you; in your carriage see them on the yoke. Then you may be sure to get along. Confucius yoke honesty principles Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke. Dallas Willard yoke way christ Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke. Edmund Waller yoke language art The yoke you wear determines the burden you bear. Edwin Louis Cole yoke literature bears We must quit bending the Word to suit our situation. It is we who must be bent to that Word, our necks that must bow under the yoke. Elisabeth Elliot bending bows yoke Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a material environment brutally imposed on him, but by a conscience superior to his own, the superiority of which he feels. Because the greater, better part of his existence transcends the body, he escapes the body's yoke, but is subject to that of society. Emile Durkheim yoke society men You call yourself free? I want to hear your ruling thought and not that you have escaped a yoke. Are you such a one as was permitted to escape a yoke? There are some who threw away their ultimate worth when they threw away their servitude. Free from what? What is that to Zarathustra! But your eyes should announce to me brightly: free for what? Friedrich Nietzsche yoke freedom eye Not he who scorns the Saviour's yoke Should wear his cross upon the heart. Friedrich Schiller yoke hypocrisy heart The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims of others. George Jean Nathan yoke often-is men That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing. George Eliot punishment yoke 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 unrest yoke father The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature. George Eliot yoke hate men Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke. Friedrich Nietzsche ruling yoke independent 123»