Servant Quotes - Page 38

• Is not the history of real civilization the slow and gradual emancipation of the intellect, of the judgment, from the mastery of passion? Is not that man civilized whose reason sits the crowned monarch of his brain - whose passions are his servants?

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Real, Passion, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1778, Library of Alexandria

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• Children truly are the family's greatest treasure and most precious good. Consequently, everyone must be helped to become aware of the intrinsic evil of the crime of abortion. In attacking human life in its very first stages, it is also an aggression against society itself. Politicians and legislators, therefore, as servants of the common good, are duty bound to defend the fundamental right to life, the fruit of God's love.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Children, Greatest Treasure, Evil

  Pope Benedict XVI's address at a Meeting on Family and Life Issues In Latin America, w2.vatican.va. December 3, 2005.

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• But, in conformity to His wisdom it was right that afterwards the Prophet should be sent back from the vision of pure Unity and that he should return . . . toward the separative vision. For, He created man and jinn only that they should worship Him and know Him - and, if they remained at the degree of pure Unity, there would be none to worship Him. In this separative vision, the Worshipped and the worshipper, the Lord and the servant, the Creator and the creature are again perceived.

  Abdelkader El Djezairi

  Wisdom, Men, Unity

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• I write poetry because I can’t disobey the impulse; it would be like blocking a spring that surges up in my throat. For a long time I’ve been the servant of the song that comes, that appears and can’t be buried away. How to seal myself up now?…It no longer matters to me who receives what I submit. What I carry out is, in that respect, greater and deeper than I, I am merely the channel.

  Gabriela Mistral

  Song, Block, Spring

  Gabriela Mistral (2009). “Madwomen: The "Locas mujeres" Poems of Gabriela Mistral, a Bilingual Edition”, p.17, University of Chicago Press

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• The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.

  Jean Cocteau

  People, Use, Language

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• You can see the rider serving the elephant when people are morally dumbfounded. They have strong gut feelings about what is right and wrong, and they struggle to construct post hoc justifications for those feelings. Even when the servant (reasoning) comes back empty-handed, the master (intuition) doesn't change his judgment.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Strong, Struggle, Elephants

  Jonathan Haidt (2012). “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion”, p.50, Vintage

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• I was very privileged and really blessed with so many material and spiritual gifts that I should give back, ... I should do something for my people, but ... it's not just in politics that you can be a servant of the people, you can do it in so many other ways.

  Corazon Aquino

  Spiritual, Blessed, People

  "Then & Now: Corazon Aquino", www.cnn.com. September 19, 2005.

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• It's not just in politics that you can be a servant of the people, you can do it in so many other ways.

  Corazon Aquino

  People, Way, Spiritual Gifts

  "Then & Now: Corazon Aquino", www.cnn.com. September 19, 2005.

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• If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants

  Tony Judt

  Citizens, Forfeit, Mediocre

  Tony Judt (2010). “Ill Fares the Land”, p.84, Penguin

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• The way things are supposed to work is that we're supposed to know virtually everything about what they [the government] do: that's why they're called public servants. They're supposed to know virtually nothing about what we do: that's why we're called private individuals.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Government, Way, Individual

  “On whistleblowers and government threats of investigation” by Glenn Greenwald, www.theguardian.com. June 7, 2013.

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• So with that will prompt and prepared to serve all those whom I perceive to be servants of my Lord, I will speak of three things with simplicity and love as if I were speaking to my own soul.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Simplicity, Soul, And Love

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• The Lord looks on his servants with pity and not with blame. In God's sight we do not fall; in our sight, we do not stand. Both of these are true, but the deeper insight belongs to God.

  Julian of Norwich

  Fall, Sight, Looks

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• Jesus is humble, and His servants must not be proud; but Jesus was never mean or cowardly, nor must His servants be. There was no braver man than Christ. He could stoop to save a soul, but He would stoop to nothing by which His character might be compromised or truth and righteousness insulted. To preach the Gospel boldly is to deliver it as such a message ought to be delivered. Blush to preach of a dying Saviour? Apologize for talking about the Son of God condescending to be made man that He might redeem us from all iniquity? Never!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Humble, Character

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1990). “The Quotable Spurgeon”, Shaw

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• The magistrate is the servant not of his own desires, not even of the people, but of his God

  John Quincy Adams

  People, Desire, Magistrates

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• The person with big talk and big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. I believe that the law was made for man and not man for the law; that government is the servant of the people and not their master.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Dream, Powerful, Believe

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• It is not I that smite, stab, and slay, but God and my prince, for my hand and my body are now their servants.

  Martin Luther

  Hands, Body

  Martin Luther (1967). “The Christian in society”

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• Who is the enemy? Who is holding back more rapid movement to the better society that is reasonable and possible with available resources?...Evil, stupidity, apathy, the 'system' are not the enemy...The real enemy is fuzzy thinking on the part of good, intelligent, vital people...In short, the enemy is strong natural servants who have the potential to lead but do not lead, or who choose to follow a non-servant.

  Robert K. Greenleaf

  Strong, Real, Intelligent

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• The cause of the South was the cause of constitutional government, the cause of government regulated by law, and the cause of honesty and fidelity in public servants. No nobler cause did man ever fight for!

  Benjamin F. Grady

  Honesty, Fighting, Men

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• Think of the old cliché about ‘the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.’ This, like many clichés, so lame and unexciting on the surface, actually expresses a great and terrible truth. It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms almost always shoot themselves in: the head.

  David Foster Wallace

  Suicide, Thinking, Mind

  "This Is Water: David Foster Wallace on Life" by Maria Popova, www.brainpickings.org. September 12, 2012.

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• We are not servants of some God; we are 'our own gods?'

  Oprah Winfrey

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• Do you know what the title was of the Pope, which ought to be used? Servant of the servants of God. It's a little different from the stars. Stars are beautiful to look at. I like to look at them in the summer when the sky is clear. But the Pope must be, must be the servant of the servants of God.

  Pope Francis

  Beautiful, Summer, Stars

  In-flight interview from Philadelphia to Rome, www.catholicnewsagency.com. September 27, 2015.

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• We enjoy telling ourselves that we will soon be gods, masters of the planet, manipulating the genes of living creatures and rebuilding the world at a nano-level as we lie back in our hammocks, attended by our robot servants. I don't believe a word of it, and I'm not sure many of us do.

  Paul Kingsnorth

  Lying, Believe, Hammocks

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You should be able to criticize civil servants for what you think is wrongdoing without being painted as a cop-hater. I don't feel the police are all corrupt, however I do feel they are suffering from institutional racism and there needs to be a top-to-bottom examination of the way they practice and the way they criminalize young black and brown males. The fact that they seem to have backed off from it seems to suggest they realize they overreacted on me and it looks bad.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Thinking, Practice, Racism

  "Q&A: Tarantino on the battles behind 'The Hateful Eight'". Associated Press Interview, www.dailymail.co.uk. December 22, 2015.

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• And in some ways, to me, that's one of the inspiring and powerful things about the Great Migration itself. There was no leader, there was no one person who set the date who said, 'On this date, people will leave the South.' They left on their own accord for as many reasons as there are people who left. They made a choice that they were not going to live under the system into which they were born anymore and in some ways, it was the first step that the nation's servant class ever took without asking.

  Isabel Wilkerson

  Powerful, Class, People

  "Great Migration: The African-American Exodus North". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 13, 2010.

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• Not even in this world does sin pay its servants good wages.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Doe, Wages, World

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