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• I know I have the mental capacity of a thousand bloggers, but because of that, my obligation to serve God is also that of a thousand bloggers

  Mickey Kaus

  Capacity, Obligation, Thousand

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• Men will not understand ... that when they fulfil their duties to men, they fulfil thereby God's commandments; that they are consequently always in the service of God, as long as their actions are moral, and that it is absolutely impossible to serve God otherwise.

  Immanuel Kant

  Men, Long, Action

  "German Thought, From The Seven Years' War To Goethe's Death : Six Lectures" by Karl Hillebrand, (p. 207), 1880.

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• We are here to become great men and women, and with that purpose in view, we must eliminate everything in our religion and philosophy that tends to make the human mind a dependent weakling. If you would serve God and be truly religious, do not kneel before God, but learn to walk with God, and do something tangible every day to increase the happiness of mankind. This is religion that is worth while, and it is such religion alone that can please the Infinite.

  Christian D. Larson

  Religious, Philosophy, Men

  Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.339, Penguin

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• Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy. All preaching that has not this for its object is nonsense and hypocrisy.

  Thomas Paine

  God, Peace, Truth

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.196, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Exhort all your household often that all those who serve you shall know to serve God and you, faithfully and painstakingly, and for the will of God to prefer in all things to do your will and pleasure in all things that are not against God.

  Robert Grosseteste

  Pleasure, Gods Will, Things To Do

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• Catholics are necessarily at war with this age. That we are not more conscious of the fact, that we so often endeavor to make an impossible peace with it -- that is the tragedy. You cannot serve God and Mammon.

  Eric Gill

  War, Catholic, Religion

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• You cannot serve god and mammon. You have to make a choice.

  Billy Graham

  Choices

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• Can one serve God and one's nation in parliament?

  William Wilberforce

  Parliament, Nations

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• To think well is to serve God in the interior court.

  Thomas Traherne

  Thinking, Court, Wells

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Men and women in all parts of the world have a desperate need to take time from their demanding routines of everyday life and to quietly observe God's miracles taking place all around them. Think of what would happen if all of us took time to look carefully at the wonders of nature that surround us and devoted ourselves to learning more about this world that God created for us!

  M. Russell Ballard

  Nature, Men, Thinking

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• In the name of Our Lord, Monsieur, do all you can to regain your health and take good care of it so that you can serve God and the poor for a longer time. This moderate care does not preclude the obligation we have of generously risking our lives when the salvation of our neighbor is concerned.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Names, Doe

  Saint Vincent de Paul (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: I. Correspondence. v. 1. 1607-1639”, BNA Books (Bureau of National Affairs)

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• We went there to serve God, and also to get rich.

  Bernal Diaz del Castillo

  War, Rich, Get Rich

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• I gave up my music because I had received from it all I had to receive. To serve God one must sacrifice the dearest thing, and I sacrificed my music, the dearest thing to me.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Music, Sacrifice, Gave Up

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1996). “The Mysticism of Sound and Music”, p.15, Shambhala Publications

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• I too have sworn heedlessly and all the time, I have had this most repulsive and death-dealing habit. I'm telling your graces; from the moment I began to serve God , and saw what evil there is in forswearing oneself, I grew very afraid indeed, and out of fear I applied the brakes to this old, old, habit.

  Saint Augustine

  Old Habits, Evil, Grace

  Sermons 180:10:1,

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• Look after everybody So that they are happy to see you. It is better to serve the devotee of god than to serve god himself.

  H. W. L. Poonja

  Love, Truth, Looks

  H. W. L. Poonja, Prashanti De Jager (2000). “The Truth Is”, p.63, Weiser Books

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• He who serves our Führer, Adolf Hitler, serves Germany, and he who serves Germany, serves God.

  Baldur von Schirach

  Germany

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• Religion and practical life are not different. To take sanyas (renunciation) is not to abandon life. The real spirit is to make the country, your family, work together instead of working only for your own. The step beyond is to serve humanity and the next step is to serve God.

  Bal Gangadhar Tilak

  Country, Real, Humanity

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• Be an observer of providence; for God is showing you ever, by the way in which He leads you, whither He means to lead. Study your trials, your talents, the world's wants, and stand ready to serve God now, in whatever He brings to your hand.

  Horace Bushnell

  God, Mean, Hands

  Horace Bushnell (1858). “Sermons for the new life”, p.22

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• Of all trees, I observe God hath chosen the vine, a low plant that creeps upon the helpful wall; of all beasts, the soft and patient lamb; of all fowls, the mild and guileless dove. Christ is the rose of the field, and the lily of the valley. When God appeared to Moses, it was not in the lofty cedar nor the sturdy oak nor the spreading palm; but in a bush, a humble, slender, abject shrub; as if He would, by these elections, check the conceited arrogance of man.

  Owen Feltham

  Wall, Humble, Humility

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• The object of life is not happiness, but to serve God or the Grail. All of the Grail quests are to serve God. If one understands this and drops his idiotic notion that the meaning of life is personal happiness, then one will find that elusive quality immediately at hand.

  Robert A. Johnson

  Hands, Quality, Meaning Of Life

  Robert A. Johnson (1989). “He: Understanding Masculine Psychology”, Harpercollins

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• Catholic schools carry out a great mission, to serve God by building knowledge and character... By teaching the word of God, you prepare your students to follow a path of virtue.

  George W. Bush

  Teaching, School, Humor

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• The curse should no longer rest upon the world itself, but upon that which is sinful in it, and instead of monastic flight from the world the duty is now emphasized of serving God in the world, in every position in life.

  Abraham Kuyper

  World, Flight, Monastic Life

  Abraham Kuyper (2007). “Lectures on Calvinism”, p.30, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When a man grows aware of a new way in which to serve God, he should carry it around with him secretly, and without uttering it, for nine months, as though he were pregnant with it, and let others know of it only at the end of that time, as though it were a birth.

  Martin Buber

  Men, Nine, Way

  Martin Buber (2002). “Ten Rungs: Collected Hasidic Sayings”, p.59, Psychology Press

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• I can hardly thinke there was any scared into Heaven; they go the surest way to Heaven who would serve God without a Hell; other Mercenaries, that crouch unto Him in feare of Hell, though they terme themselves servants, are indeed but the slaves of the Almighty.

  Thomas Browne

  Heaven, Way, Scared

  Sir Thomas Browne (2012). “Religio Medici and Urne-Buriall”, p.58, New York Review of Books

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• Those who are faithful to God are protected and prospered. That comes as the result of serving God and keeping His commandments. But with those blessings comes the temptation to forget their source. It is easy to begin to feel the blessings were granted not by a loving God on whom we depend but by our own powers.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Blessing, Temptation, Faithful

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