Best 132 quotes in «servant quotes» category

Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless.

Audrey Hepburn, as famous as she was, packed her own suitcases... I don’t know why that struck me, but it did. 'She has a servant’s heart,' I thought.

A sleepy master makes his servant a Lowt.

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

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

Billy Graham is the chief servant of Satan in America.

Death has no terrors for a sincere servant of Christ who is laboring to bring souls to a knowledge of the truth.

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

Civil servants take forever to do anything.

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

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

I am the servant of my score.

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Servant Leadership is the only #leadership that ultimately works.

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

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

Reason is the servant of instinct.

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

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

The best servant does his work unseen.

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

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

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

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

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 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 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.

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

We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.

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