Best 132 quotes in «servant quotes» category

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Reason is the servant of instinct.

Servant Leadership is the only #leadership that ultimately works.

The best servant does his work unseen.

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

...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.

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 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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

When we vest our personal opinions with the trappings of religion, we make religion the servant of our politics.

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

We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.

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

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

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

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

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

When domestic servants are treated as human beings it is not worth while to keep them.

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

Who then is the greatest leader? The one who has served the most.

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.

Words are good servants but bad masters.

Your hands, your eyes, your voice, your thoughts are your servants.

You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.

8 April 1891 The obscenity of nostrils and mouths; the ignominious cupidity of smiles and women encountered in the street; the shifty baseness on every side, as of hyenas and wild beasts ready to bite: tradesmen in their shops and strollers on their pavements. How long must I suffer this? I have suffered it before, as a child, when, descending by chance to the servant's quarters, I overheard in astonishment their vile gossip, tearing up my own kind with their lovely teeth. This hostility to the entire race, this muted detestation of lynxes in human form, I must have rediscovered it later while at school. I had a repugnance and horror for all base instincts, but am I not myself instinctively violent and lewd, murderous and sensual? Am I any different, in essence, from the members of the riotous and murderous mob of a hundred years ago, who hurled the town sergeants into the Seine and cried, 'String up the aristos!' just as they shout 'Down with the army!' or 'Death to the Jews!

A true Christian and true servant of God serves God and not man

All are bound to serve and obey, but few are aware, it all depends on how high in the hierarchy you are determined to aim.

And after that until the end, there was no relief from being a girl with chores that she wasn’t being paid for, a girl with no new sandals and a friend who wasn’t a friend but a mistress, and a family that wasn’t but people who owned her and ordered her about, and nothing at all but her pretty breasts and her round bottom and her misbehaving hair to help her feel any different.

Anger should be your servant, not your master

A person who is another man's slave is better than one who is a slave to lust.