Best 132 quotes in «servant quotes» category

Firefighters are some of the most selfless public servants you will ever encounter.

Faith is to rest, not in the best of God's servants, but in His unchanging Word.

He can give little to his servant, that lickes his knife. [He can give little to his servant that licks his knife.]

He who has conquered the internal nature controls the whole universe; it becomes his servant.

He [Jesus Christ] is the Master of all as the Servant of all.

[History is] the very servant of the servants of God, the drudge of all the drudges.

How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead of a servant

How do you know if you are a servant? By how you react when someone treats you as one.

If Christ came back he would drive his treacherous servants out of the temple with a whip.

I am a servant, taking orders and receiving orders. What God tells me, I say, and what He shows me, I see. His will must always supersede.

I am the servant of my score.

I fell far short of living up to the kind of public servant I wanted to be.

It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.

if the will is their servant then it is not sovereign, and if the will is not sovereign, we certainly cannot predicate 'freedom' of it.

In mathematics our role is more that of servant than master.

In free governments the rulers are the servants, and the people their superiors and sovereigns.

Jesus spoke to those who had turned their backs on history. He spoke to those who had blatantly ignored sign after sign, servant after servant.

It's not just in politics that you can be a servant of the people, you can do it in so many other ways.

Life is special when you reach out beyond yourself to be a true servant leader for others.

Let us measure ourselves by our Master, and not by our fellow-servants : then pride will be impossible.

Servant Leadership is the only #leadership that ultimately works.

Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well.

Reason is the servant of instinct.

Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us.

Servitude, in many cases, is not forced upon by the masters, but a temptation of the servants.

Life was intended to be so adjusted that the body should be the servant of the soul, and always subordinate to the soul.

Make thy recreation servant to thy business, lest thou become a slave to thy recreation.

The best servant does his work unseen.

...the best leaders are servant leaders - they serve those they lead.

The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution.

The Bible says that the servant of the Lord must be patient. Not everyone believes immediately.

Those who choose to be servants know the most about being free.

The sweetest things in life were not necessarily what one strove for and grabbed. Instead, many many times the All-Merciful, the All-Generous would give His servants without being petitioned, without waiting to be asked.

The trustworthiness of servants is the basis of the entire Indian economy.

The individual who is the servant of technique must be completely unconscious of himself.

The magistrate is the servant not of his own desires, not even of the people, but of his God

The myth that holds that the great corporation is the puppet of the market, the powerless servant of the consumer, is, in fact one of the devices by which its power is perpetuated.

The nonviolent man automatically becomes a servant of God.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person.

The stairway to the ministry is not a grand staircase but a back stairwell that leads down to the servants’ quarters.

The strength of that heretic [Calvin] consisted in this, that money never had the slightest charm for him. If I had such servants my dominion would extend from sea to sea.

We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action of the machine we have created to serve us.

To become God's mighty servants, we must decide whether we will base our life on His priorities or the world's. The two are incompatible.

To serve the public interest is not the same as being a servant of public opinion.

We are never more like Jesus than when we are serving Him or others. There is no higher calling than to be a servant.

Water is a very good servant, but it is a cruel master.

Whether to the nation or to the state, no service can be or ever will be rendered by a more able or a more faithful public servant.

We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us.

When you knock, ask to see God — none of the servants.