Servant Quotes - Page 36

• I look upon a good physician, not so properly as a servant to nature, as one, that is a counsellor and friendly assistant, who, in his patient's body, furthers those motions and other things, that he judges conducive to the welfare and recovery of it; but as to those, that he perceives likely to be hurtful, either by increasing the disease, or otherwise endangering the patient, he thinks it is his part to oppose or hinder, though nature do manifestly enough seem to endeavour the exercising or carrying on those hurtful motions.

  Robert Boyle

  Recovery, Exercise, Science

  Robert Boyle, Edward B. Davis, Michael Hunter (1996). “Robert Boyle: A Free Enquiry Into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature”, p.137, Cambridge University Press

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• To be free from all egoistic motive, careful of truth in speech and action, void of self-will and self-assertion, watchful in all things, is the condition for being a flawless servant.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Self, Speech, Flawless

  Sri Aurobindo, Aurobindo Ghose (1993). “The Integral Yoga: Sri Aurobindo's Teaching and Method of Practice”, p.143, Lotus Press

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• There'll be some savings from preventing double dipping by public servants which are currently able to access not one but two fully tax payer funded schemes and of course there will be out paid parental leave levy. So all up not only is this an important economic reform, an important reform to have to grow our economy more strongly, it also will leave the budget better off which will help us fix the mess that Labor has created with the budget.

  Tony Abbott

  Two, Important, Get Better

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• He who trusts a secret to his servant makes his own man his master.

  John Dryden

  Men, Secret, Secrecy

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• Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Heaven, Weakness

  Alexander Pope (1829). “An Essay on Man: And Other Poems”, p.21

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• The angels minister to God's servants in time of hardship and danger.

  Billy Graham

  Angel, Hardship, Danger

  Billy Graham (2009). “Graham 2in1 (Angels/Peace With God)”, p.52, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Technology and tools are useful and powerful when they are your servant and not your master.

  Stephen Covey

  Teamwork, Powerful, Technology

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• The man who has no inner life is a slave of his surroundings, as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air.

  Lisa Alther

  Men, Air, Life Is

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• They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world.

  Anthony Holden

  Real, Intelligent, Track

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• The mind must become the servant of the intellect, not the slave of the senses. It must discriminate and detach itself from the body. Like the ripe tamarind fruit, which, becomes loose inside the shell, it must be unattached to this shell, this casement called body.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Mind, Shells, Body

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• God requireth not a uniformity of religion to be enacted in any civil state; which enforced uniformity (sooner or later) is the greatest occasion of civil war, ravishing of conscience, persecution of Christ Jesus in his servants, and of the hypocrisy and destruction of millions of souls.

  Roger Williams

  Jesus, War, Civilization

  Roger Williams, John Cotton, John Murton (1848). “The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience Discussed: And Mr. Cotton's Letter Examined and Answered”, p.2

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• It was, of course, odd for a lady to be opening her own door, but from the look of the place, Magnus assumed the entire staff of servants had been given the decade off.

  Cassandra Clare

  Doors, Looks, Odd

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2014). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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• To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Anger, Hands, Long

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.540, Stanford University Press

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• Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.

  Nathanael Emmons

  Positive, Happiness, Success

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• A man pleaser cannot be true to God, because he is a servant to the enemies of his service; the wind of a man's mouth will drive him about as the chaff, from any duty, and to any sin.

  Richard Baxter

  Inspirational, Men, Wind

  Richard Baxter (1825). “A Christian Directory, Or, A Body of Practical Divinity and Cases of Conscience: Christian ethics, (or private duties)”, p.558

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• The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Issues, Government, Adoption

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• Abstract reason, formerly the servant of practical human reasons, has everywhere become its master, and denies poetry any excuse for existence.
  Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves. Of never acquiescing in a fraud; of never accepting the secondary-rate in poetry, painting, music, love, friends. Of safeguarding our poetic institutions against the encroachments of mechanized, insensate, inhumane, abstract rationality.

  Robert Graves

  Humorous, Poetry, Fancy

  "The Crane Bag". Book by Robert Graves. "The Case for Xanthippe", 1969.

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• The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Husband, Politics, Firsts

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• I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master.

  David Rockefeller

  Believe, Government, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The real searcher after truth will not receive the old because it is old, or reject the new because it is new. He will not believe men because they are dead, or contradict them because they are alive. With him an utterance is worth the truth, the reason it contains, without the slightest regard to the author. He may have been a king or serf - a philosopher or servant, - but the utterance neither gains nor loses in truth or reason. Its value is absolutely independent of the fame or station of the man who gave it to the world.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Wisdom, Kings, Truth

  Robert Green Ingersoll (2004). “Superstition and Other Essays”

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• Servant of God, well done! well hast thou fought
  The better fight, who single hast maintain'd
  Against revolted multitudes the cause of truth.

  John Milton

  Truth, Honesty, Fighting

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 6, l. 29

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• Not all civil servants admire strong political leadership. But if you want to change things for the better you need strong political leadership.

  Harriet Harman

  Change, Strong, Political

  "Brown Accused of 'Ruthlessness'". news.bbc.co.uk. March 20, 2007.

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• A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master.

  George Washington

  4th Of July, Fire, Government

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• Faithful servants have a way of knowing answered prayer when they see it, and a way of not giving up when they don't.

  Max Lucado

  Prayer, Giving Up, Knowing

  Max Lucado (2013). “God Came Near: God's Perfect Gift”, p.97, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The Church, rightly conceived, is the whole covenant people called to serve in the world. The clergy are also part of the laity, and their true function is to help equip the laity to be the Servant People. If they turn aside to rule and to secure their own status, they have betrayed the calling of the special ministry.

  Franklin Littell

  Betrayal, People, Special

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