Servant Quotes - Page 32

• Sun of my soul, thou Savior dear, It is not night if thou be near. Oh, may no earthborn cloud arise To hide thee from thy servant's eyes.

  John Keble

  Eye, Night, Clouds

  John Keble, “Sun Of My Soul”

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• Man's knowledge of science has clearly outstripped his knowledge of man. Our only hope of making the atom servant rather than master lies in education, in a broad liberal education where each student within his capacity can free himself from trammels of dogmatic prejudice and apply his educational accoutrement to besetting social and human problems.

  Harry Woodburn Chase

  Education, Lying, Men

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• A servant church must have as its priority solidarity with the poor.

  Claudio Hummes

  Priorities, Church, Poor

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• Whenever Allah gives a blessing to a servant, and then takes it back from him, and the servant patiently endures his loss, then He rewards him with a blessing which is better than the one which He took back.

  Umar II

  Wisdom, Islamic, Loss

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  There are at the present moment many colored men in the Confederate army doing duty not only as cooks, servants and laborers , but as real soldiers, having muskets on their shoulders, and bullets in their pockets, ready to shoot down loyal troops, and do all that soldiers may to destroy the Federal Government and build up that of the traitors and rebels.

  Frederick Douglass

  Real, War, Army

  "The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass: The Civil War, 1861-1865".

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• Hold on to your own ideal. . . . Above all, never attempt to guide or rule others, or, as the Yankees say, "boss" others. Be the servant of all.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Yankees

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2034, Manonmani Publishers

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• Servants think of ministry as an opportunity, not an obligation. They enjoy helping people, meeting needs, and doing ministry.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Opportunity, Thinking

  "The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?". Book by Rick Warren, 2002.

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• Robinson had a servant even better than Friday: His name was Crusoe.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Friday, Self, Names

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master

  John Dryden

  Trust, Confidence, Keeping Secrets

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• In relations between the rich and the strong, between the rich and the poor, between the master and the servant, it's liberty that grinds down, and the law which liberates.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Strong, Law, Liberty

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• Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is our servant, not our master!

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, People, Southern

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• Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Experience has taught us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession, and when the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

  George Washington

  Freedom, Taken, Fire

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

  Francis Quarles

  Leisure, Slave, Recreation

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• We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door.

  Djuna Barnes

  Girl, Doors, Salad

  "The Home Club: For Servants Only". Brooklyn Daily Eagle, October 12, 1913.

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• In Christ we become God's sons, man's servants and the devil's masters.

  John G. Lake

  Son, Men, Devil

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• I was under the librarians' protection. Civil servants and servants of civility, they had my back. The would be whatever they needed to be that day: information professionals, teachers, police, community organizers, computer technicians, historians, confidantes, clerks, social workers, storytellers, or, in this case, guardians of my peace.

  Marilyn Johnson

  Teacher, Community, Police

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• And a true God is not One with the most servants, but One who serves the most, thereby making Gods of all others. For this is both the goal and the glory of God: that His subjects shall be no more, and that all shall know God not as the unattainable, but as the unavoidable.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Goal, Unattainable, Glory

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.93, Penguin

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• Blessed is the servant who esteems himself no more highly when he is praised and exalted by people than when he is considered worthless, foolish, and to be despised; since what a man is before God, that he is and nothing more.

  Francis of Assisi

  Blessed, Men, People

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• After all we are merely the servants of the public, in spite of our M.D.'s and our hospital appointments.

  Henry Howarth Bashford

  Physicians, Spite, Appointments

  The Corner of Harley Street Ch. 8

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• It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Stones, Sake, Journalism

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.1056, Wordsworth Editions

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• Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne.

  Oscar Wilde

  Champagne Drinking, Drinking Champagne, Bachelors

  Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.2

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• There is no one so radical as a man-servant whose freedom of the champagne bin has been interfered with.

  Tom Stoppard

  Men, Champagne, Radical

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Travesties”, p.74, Faber & Faber

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• According to [the Bible], a leader is first and foremost a servant. His concern is not for himself; his concern is not to give orders, to boss other people around, to have his own way. His concern is to meet the needs of others.

  Wayne Mack

  Order, People, Giving

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• As a child I drew objects that caught my eye outside the window of my room - the dry twigs, leaves and lizard-like creatures crawling about, the servant chopping firewood and, of course, and number of crows in various postures on the rooftops of the buildings opposite.

  R. K. Laxman

  Children, Eye, Opposites

  R. K. Laxman (1998). “The tunnel of time: an autobiography”, Viking Pr

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• Satan wants anxiety to hinder us from becoming effective servants of Christ.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Anxiety, Want, Becoming

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