Top 169 Yoke Quotes & Sayings

Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke.

Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.

You must not allow yourselves to become discouraged. Missionary work brings joy, optimism, and happiness. Don't give Satan an opportunity to discourage you. Here again, work is the answer. The Lord has given us a key by which we can overcome discouragement: "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light."

Take Christ in with you under your yoke, and let patience have her perfect work.

We do not want to live under the yoke of the threat of Islamic fundamentalism.

The word yoga is the same as the English word "yoke". So in the New Testament when Jesus Christ says, "My yoke is easy and my burden is light," my interpretation is that he's referring to yoga. It means "union" - Union of the body, mind and the spirit as one continuum of consciousness.

Not he who scorns the Saviour's yoke Should wear his cross upon the heart.

While love takes on itself impossible tasks, yet it finds that love lightens all loads. It is the same burden that wings are to a bird, that sails are to a ship. Nothing is hard if done for love's sweet sake. The yoke of love is easy; the yoke of duty is hard. There is all the difference in the world between being drawn by love and being driven by duty. The task may be the same, but love makes everything light, and duty makes everything drudgery.

To all the revolutionaries fighting to throw off the yoke of tyranny around the world: look at British democracy. Is that what you want?

Virtue cannot dwell with slaves, nor reign O'er those who cower to take a tyrant's yoke.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

When Jesus invites sinners, 'Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest,' he immediately adds,'take my yoke upon you, and learn from me' (Matt. 11:28-29). To come to him includes taking his yoke upon us, being subject to his direction and guidance, learning from him and being obedient to him. If we are unwilling to make such a commitment, then we have not truly placed our trust in him.

In dreams and visions lie the greatest creations of man, for on them rests no yoke of line or hue.

Action must be taken at once; there is no time to be lost; we shall yet see the oppressors' yoke broken and the fragments scattered on the ground.

Losses and crosses are heavy to bear; but when our hearts are right with God, it is wonderful how easy the yoke becomes.

The Cadiz tribe, not used to bearing our yoke.

The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature.

O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From the world-wearied flesh

Insurrection by means of guerrilla bands is the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke. It is invincible, indestructible.

My yoke is easy, and my burden light.

Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up.

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.

It is vain to think that any weariness, however caused, any burden, however slight, may be got rid of otherwise than by bowing the neck to the yoke of the Father's will. There can be no other rest for heart and soul than He has created. From every burden, from every anxiety, from all dread of shame or loss, even loss of love itself, that yoke will set us free.

My poor soul! Sigh, pray and strive to take upon you the blessed yoke of Christ, and you will live on earth in a heavenly manner. Lord, grant that I may carry the light and goodly yoke, and I shall be always at rest, peaceful, glad and joyous; and I shall taste on earth of crumbs which fall from the celestial feast, like a dog that feeds upon the crumbs which fall from the master's table.

For loving, working, and creative people to throw off the yoke of power it is necessary to abolish power itself, not merely to make the yoke comfortable. Where some have power, others do not, and the two classes persist. A free society is where all have power-power over and responsibility for their own lives, power and reason to respect the lives of others. This is also a society without classes, a society of human beings, not rulers and the ruled.

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.

Personally I crave not for 'independence', which I do not understand, but I long for freedom from the English yoke.

The yoke you wear determines the burden you bear.

Provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke.

The restoration of spinning to its central place in India's peaceful campaign for deliverance from the imperial yoke gives her women a special status.

One cannot free oneself by bowing to the yoke, but by breaking it.

In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.

Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy; it is more than that, it is a discipline, a law, a yoke, an indissoluble engagement.

[Exchange] the galling burden of bachelorship for the easy yoke of matrimony.

That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.

You can live in the world and have all the myriad experiences that life has to offer and yoke your awareness field to the planes of light, and eventually to nirvana itself.

All mental discipline and symmetrical growth are from activity of the mind under the yoke of the will or personal power.

The softminded person always wants to freeze the moment and hold life in the gripping yoke of sameness.

The phenomenon of creativity, we know, is closely related to the ability to yoke together separate, and even seemingly incompatible, matrices.

How true it is that, sooner or later, the' most rebellious must bow beneath the yoke of misfortune!

A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.

If I had my life to live over I would die fighting rather than be a slave again. I want no man's yoke on my shoulders no more.

He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.

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?

People’s State, is a yoke, on the one hand giving rise to despotism and on the other to slavery. They say that such a yoke – dictatorship is a transitional step towards achieving full freedom for the people: anarchism or freedom is the aim, while state and dictatorship is the means, and so, in order to free the masses of people, they have first to be enslaved!

Only the man who follows the command of Jesus single-mindedly, and unresistingly lets his yoke rest upon him, finds his burden easy, and under its gentle pressure receives the power to persevere in the right way. The command of Jesus is hard, unutterably hard, for those who try to resist it. But for those who willingly submit, the yoke is easy, and the burden is light.

I believe that no people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery but when they deserved it.

In time the bull is brought to wear the yoke. [Lat., Tempore ruricolae patiens fit taurus aratri.]

Easier were it To hurl the rooted mountain from its base, Than force the yoke of slavery upon men Determin'd to be free.

Delivered from the galling yoke of time.

Who enslaves another's manhood with weak human power alone, Lays a heavier yoke of bondage thoughtlessly upon his own.

To bear lightly the neck's yoke brings strength; but kicking against the goads is the way of failure.

The ox feels the yoke, but does the bird feel the weight of its wings?

Madness is a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention.

Europe really needs to wake up, cast aside the lies and get rid of the Jewish yoke we live under - once and for all.

I'm rather bored by the subject - meaning me. It's a sort of a yoke, but at times you know, a yoke is a kind of comfort. And it's always there.

Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery.

Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought.

We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones.

The doubts of an honest man contain more moral truth than the profession of faith of people under a worldly yoke.