Best 132 quotes in «servant quotes» category

My maid never sweeps under the bed so I asked her to do so today. Found a pen, three pairs of shoes and the man I had lost two years ago.

Miss Fields," said a servant, stepping into the room and closing the door, "There is a visitor for you. Are you in?" Clare blinked. "Yes, obviously." "Ah. Miss Fields, I should advise -- you may be in without being 'in', if you prefer," he said, offering her a tray. There was a calling card on it; Arthur Conan Doyle, Edinburgh.

Obedience is the virtue that determines whether a person is either a servant or a rebel. Life of integrity is built on obedience of God's statutes and nothing else.

No one comes to stone the servant when they could watch the execution of the king.

Power is meant to be shared with the goal of empowering others. Hoarded power weakens others and exalts oneself. Power, when grounded in biblical values, serves others by liberating them. It acknowledges that people bear the image of God and treats them in a way that will nurture the development of that image. In so doing, we honor their Creator.

Power is to be used in the service of others and only secondarily, if at all, for the benefit of oneself.

Perhaps it also demonstrates that any young girl can live quite healthily on coarse bread and clear water – so long as she has fine clothes.

Serve in the grace of strength within thy soul.

Professor [John] Tyndall once said the finest inspiration he ever received was from an old man who could scarcely read. This man acted as his servant. Each morning the old man would knock on the door of the scientist and call, 'Arise, Sir: it is near seven o'clock and you have great work to do today.

The 10 ever greatest misplacements in life: 1. Leadership without character. 2. Followership without servant-being. 3. Brotherhood without integrity. 4. Affluence without wisdom. 5. Authority without conscience. 6. Relationship without faithfullness. 7. Festivals without peace. 8. Repeated failure without change. 9. Good wealth without good health. 10. Love without a lover.

She was simply a young woman who believed that the man called Jesus Christ is a real person, such as those represent him who profess to have known him; and she therefore believed the man himself—believed that, when he said a thing, he entirely meant it, knowing it to be true; believed, therefore, that she had no choice but do as he told her. That man was the servant of all; therefore, to regard any honest service as degrading would be, she saw, to deny Christ, to call the life of creation's hero a disgrace. Nor was he the first servant; he did not of himself choose his life; the Father gave it him to live--sent him to be a servant, because he, the Father, is the first and greatest servant of all.

That's what you got for being a servant of no ambition: a shrunken life, hung up like a gibbet as a warning to others.

Speaking of Newton but also commenting more broadly on education and the Enlightenment: "I have seen a professor of mathematics only because he was great in his vocation, buried like a king who had done well by his subjects.

The enlightened are servants of the rich and poor, helpers of the weak and powerful, friends of the lowly and eminent. They are servants of mankind.

The better we serve, the greater the fulfilment.

The holy servants were separated, for the sake of Law of God.

The holy servant, the Saviour JESUS CHRIST.

The more you manifest a servant’s heart in all you do, the more of an impact you’ll have on people’s lives.

The Husband Manifesto: I will be a better father. I will be a better husband. I will be a better leader. I will be a better servant. I will be a better man. I will esteem my wife in front of my friends. I will praise my wife before my family. I will honor my wife as I honor my mother. I will put a smile on her every day. I will plant a kiss on her each day. I will listen to her even when I don't feel like it. I will love her even when I don't feel like it. I will treat her better than I treat myself. I will treat her as God would.

The more you offer yourself to make life better for someone, the more you empty yourself of the load of destiny you carry into the world. Serve till you empty all.

The mind is your servant or can make you a slave to its control.

‎The only way Jesus can be our King is if we allow Him to be our Servant

To be a servant of the Saviour is the sacred service.

To be a good ruler one must be the best of servants.

Therefore let every soul be in subjection to the higher powers' (Rom 13.1). The Christian must not be drawn to the bearers of high office; his calling is to stay below. The higher power are over him, and he must remain under them. The world exercises dominion, the Christian serves, and thus he shares the earthly lot of his Lord, who became a servant. 'For there is no power but of God.' (Mark 10.42-45) These words are addressed to the Christians, not to the powers.

The Savior ,the Lord Jesus Christ is holy servant.

To serve is to command; to command is to serve.

To Stanley Ager, the gift of human "service" was no one-way loyalty. He clearly gave his all to the families he served but, though he was almost too polite to state this, his expectation of loyalty in return was implicit.

You are the master and life is your servant.

We were all created to be servants, not slaves.

Without wisdom man’s position does not differ in any way from that of a servant.

Your subservience makes me uncomfortable.” That pissed me off. “Then you shouldn’t pay people to do things for you. End of story.

A guru trains his disciples to become Krishna dasa, a menial servant of Krishna.

A leader must have a servant's heart. And if he has a servant's heart, he will act like a servant and react like a servant when he is treated like a servant.

Being thy servant, O Mary, is a surety of salvation God grants solely to those He will save.

Civil servants take forever to do anything.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I am the servant of my score.

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

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

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

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.