Servant Quotes - Page 40

• If you start out to solely make money, you will attract the wrong kind of employees.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Servant Leadership, Kind, Making Money

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• I have rightfully no other business each day but to do God's work as a servant, constantly regarding His pleasure. May I have grace to live above every human motive, simply with God and to God.

  Henry Martyn

  Christian, Inspiration, Grace

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• People kill what they fear. They burned, and drowned, and hanged those they saw as witches, the devil's servants: the wise women and the cunning men, the unfortunate, the lost and the strange

  Neil Gaiman

  Wise, Fear, Men

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• He who plants a tree is a servant of God.

  Louis L'Amour

  Nature, Servant Of God, Tree

  Louis L'Amour (2007). “The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 5: Frontier Stories”, p.115, Bantam

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• God may allow His servant to succeed when He has disciplined him to a point where he does not need to succeed to be happy. The man who is elated by success and is cast down by failure is still a carnal man. At best his fruit will have a worm in it.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Doe, Needs

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• Trouble is one of God's great servants because it reminds us how much we continually need the Lord.

  Jim Cymbala

  Christian, Needs, Trouble

  Jim Cymbala (2010). “Fresh Wind Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People”, p.60, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There are many who are lip servants but not life servants.

  William Jenkyn

  Hypocrite, Lips

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• But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.

  Thomas Morell

  Heart, Law, Soul

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• He who loses his money is forsaken by his friends, his wife, his servants and his relations; yet when he regains his riches those who have forsaken him come back to him. Hence wealth is certainly the best of relations.

  Chanakya

  Best Friend, Wife, Riches

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• And with the money from your corn, from your rents, and from the issues of pleas in your courts, and from your stock, arrange the expenses of your kitchen and your wines and your wardrobe and the wages of servants, and subtract your stock.

  Robert Grosseteste

  Wine, Issues, Kitchen

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• The act of contributing to the lives of others is its own reward. A servant's heart is a greater motivator than financial gain.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Motivation, Heart, Rewards

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• Up until I became a father, it was all about self-obsession. But then I learned exactly what it's all about: the delight of being a servant.

  Eric Clapton

  Father, Self, Parent

  "What I've Learned: Eric Clapton" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 6, 2014.

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• Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Fate, Providence, Rulers

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• Reason is intuition's servant.

  Albert Einstein

  Intuition, Reason

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• Preachers are stewards whom the Lord has ‘set over his household servants to provide them with food at the proper time.’ After all the years the church has suffered under forceful preachers and winning orators, under compelling pulpiteers and clerical bigmouths with egos to match, how nice to hear that Jesus expects preachers in their congregations to be nothing more than faithful household cooks.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Jesus, Nice, Winning

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• Every one wants to command, and no one wants to obey; and this is owing to the absence of that wonderful brahmacharya system of yore. First, learn to obey. The command will come by itself. Always first learn to be a servant, and then you will be fit to be a master.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Owing, Want, Firsts

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1063, Manonmani Publishers

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• The intellect is a beautiful servant but a terrible master. Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart is the doorway to our unity.

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  Ram Dass

  Beautiful, Heart, Unity

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• IF YOU APPROACH THE WORLD WITH THE APRON OF A SERVANT,THEN YOU ARE ALLOWED TO GO PLACES THAT YOU CAN'T GO IF YOU APPROACH IT WITH THE CROWN OF A KING

  Jon Foreman

  Kings, Crowns, World

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• Your mind is like a servant to you. Whatever you are being in the midst of your mind, your mind is going to be the same to you.

  John de Ruiter

  Mind, Midst

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• He who is greatest among you shall be a servant. That's the new definition of greatness. ... By giving that definition of greatness, it means that everybody can be great, because everybody can serve.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Mean, Greatness, Giving

  "Day of service honors Martin Luther King Jr". www.cnn.com. January 18, 2011.

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• God is not looking for more stars; He's looking for more servants.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Stars

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

  Swami Vivekananda

  Internals, Whole, Universe

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.112, Advaita Ashrama

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• Our Lord humbled without humiliation His lofty station which yet could not be humbled, and condescends to His servants, with a condescension ineffable and incomprehensible. God being perfect becomes perfect man, and brings to perfection the newest of all new things (cf. Eccles 1:10), the only new thing under the sun, through which the boundless might of God is manifested. For what greater thing is there than that God should become man?

  John of Damascus

  Christian, Men, Cfs

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• Let everybody know this. He shall be assigned to the place and to the service to which he gave and devoted himself in this life and he can be sure that in eternity he will have as his lot the service and the companionship which he preferred in this life. This is what the Lord means when He says, 'If anyone is my servant let him follow Me and where I am he will be there as my servant' (Jn. 12:26).

  John Cassian

  Christian, Mean, Companionship

  John Cassian, Colm Luibhéid (1985). “Conferences”, p.48, Paulist Press

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• The slave of the belly ponders the menu with which to celebrate the feast. The servant of God, however, thinks of the graces that may enrich him.

  John Climacus

  Christian, Thinking, Servant Of God

  Saint John (Climacus) (1982). “John Climacus (CWS)”, p.165, Paulist Press

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