Serving God Quotes - Page 6

• God is present in every Jiva; there is no other God besides that. Who serves Jiva serves God indeed.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.279, Advaita Ashrama

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• The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world. We marry to assist each other in this task. The most selfish and hateful life of all is that of two beings who unite in order to enjoy life. The highest calling is that of the man who has dedicated his life to serving God and doing good, and who unites with a woman in order to further that purpose.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Marriage, Selfish, Men

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• Zounds! sir, you are one of those that will not serve God if the devil bid you.

  William Shakespeare

  Evil, Devil, Ifs

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 1, l. 108

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• Since God is the one who calls people to their work, the worker becomes a steward who serves God.

  Leland Ryken

  People, Stewards, Workers

  Leland Ryken (1995). “Redeeming the Time: A Christian Approach to Work and Leisure”, p.105, Baker Academic

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• We need to remember the purpose of our service to one another. If it were only to accomplish some part of His work, God could dispatch 'legions of angels.' . . . But that would not achieve the purpose of the service He has prescribed. We serve God and our fellowmen in order to become the kind of children who can return to live with our heavenly parents.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Children, Angel, Order

  "I’ll Go Where You Want Me to Go" by Dallin H. Oaks, www.lds.org. October 2002.

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• The secret of a happy marriage is to serve God and each other.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Marriage, Secret, Happy Marriage

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• So you can't lose serving God, and that all things work together for good.

  Jim Bakker

  Working Together, All Things, Loses

  "Larry King Weekend", www.cnn.com. June 24, 2001.

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• We shall never want to serve God in our real and secret hearts if He looms in our subconscious mind as an arbitrary Dictator or a Spoil-sport, or as one who takes advantage of His position to make us poor mortals feel guilty and afraid. We have not only to be impressed by the "size" and unlimited power of God, we have to be moved to genuine admiration, respect, and affection, if we are ever to worship Him.

  John Bertram Phillips

  Sports, Real, Heart

  John Bertram Phillips (1964). “Your God is too small”, Scribner Paper Fiction

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• Miracles, or those extraordinary manifestations of the power of god, are not for the unbeliever; they are to console the Saints, and to strengthen and confirm the faith of those who love, fear, and serve God.

  Brigham Young

  Miracle, Saint, Fear Of Love

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”

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• We serve God by serving our fellow man; kids are suffering from malnutrition. People are going to the fields hungry. If you are a Christian, we are tired of being mistreated.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Christian, Tired, Kids

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• Those who serve God in vocational ministry must learn to trust Him for their daily needs before they can encourage others to do so.

  Max Anders

  Needs, Ministry

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• If we continue to seek learning to serve God and His children better, it is a blessing of great worth. If we begin to seek learning to exalt ourselves alone, it leads to selfishness and pride, which will take us away from eternal life.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Children, Pride, Blessing

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• You don't serve God by saying: the Church is ineffective, I'll have none of it. Your pain at its lack of effectiveness is a sign of your nearness to God. We help overcome this lack of effectiveness simply by suffering on account of it.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Pain, Effectiveness, Suffering

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• William Perkins said, “The end of a man’s calling is not to gather riches for himself…but to serve God in the serving of man, and in the seeking the good of all men.

  Leland Ryken

  Men, Calling, Riches

  Leland Ryken (2010). “Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were”, p.115, Harper Collins

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• Glory belongs to God, of course; that's what the word really means. And you can't serve God with a gun.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Mean, Gun, Glory

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.695, Macmillan

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• If you have to do with one who is unquestionably a slanderer, do not excuse him by calling him frank and free-spoken; do not call one who is notoriously vain, liberal and elegant; do not call dangerous levities mere simplicity; do not screen disobedience under the name of zeal; or arrogance, of frankness; or evil intimacy, of friendship. No, my friends, we must never, in our wish to shun slander, foster or flatter vice in others: but we must call evil evil, and sin sin, and so doing we shall serve God's glory.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Names, Evil, Simplicity

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.279, Catholic Way Publishing

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• A man cannot serve God and Mammon, nor be "temperate and furious" at the same time.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Men, Furious

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.31, New Directions Publishing

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• I can neither serve God nor humanity if as an Indian I do not serve India, and as a Hindu I do not serve Indian Mussalmans.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Humanity, India

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• He who spins before the poor, inviting them to do likewise, serves God as no one else does.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Doe, Poor, Inviting

  Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “Hindu Dharma”

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• Rama Nama should come from the heart. In that event, Rama Nama could become an effective remedy against all ailments. A man who believes in Rama Nama would not make a fetish of the body but would regard it as a means of serving God. And for making it into a fit instrument for that purpose, Rama Nama is the sovereign means. To install Rama Nama in the heart requires infinite patience. It might even take ages. But the effort is worthwhile. Rama Nama cannot come from the heart unless one has cultivated the virtues of truth, honesty and purity within and without.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Honesty, Believe, Heart

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• There must be a way for man to attain all possible pleasures, all the powers and knowledge that nature can grant him, and still serve God--a God who speaks in deeds, not in words, and whose vocabulary is the Cosmos.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Men, Vocabulary, Cosmos

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph C. Landis (1986). “Aspects of I.B. Singer”

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• If God is to create or to preserve a creature, God must be present and must make and preserve God's creation both in its innermost and outermost aspects.

  Martin Luther

  God's Creation, Evolution, Aspect

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• Whoever would entitle himself after death through the merits of his Redeemer, to the noblest of rewards, let him serve God throughout life in this most excellent of all duties, doing good to our brethren. Whoever is sensible of his offences, let him take this way especially of evidencing his repentance.

  Thomas Secker

  Charity, Rewards, Way

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• You can serve God and man in no more effective way than by getting rich; that is, if you get rich by the creative method and not by the competitive one.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Men, Creative, Way

  Wallace D. Wattles (2002). “The Science of Getting Rich, Or, Financial Success Through Creative Thought”, p.58, Wheatmark, Inc.

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• I am convinced that the majority of the religious hierarchy today deplores the hardship inflicted on our people. I am referring not only to the martyrs but of the families who have been dispersed and terrified, who have no resources, and to the four million unemployed who are suffering from the economic chaos of a country which only a year earlier was giving employment to a million foreigners. Those who have chosen to serve God must feel profoundly sad at seeing ridicule poured on the most sacred principles of our religion.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Country, Religious, Years

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi (Shah of Iran) (1980). “The Shah's story”, Michael Joseph

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