Serving Quotes - Page 22

• We see that God has implanted in all things a natural desire to exist with the fullest measure of existence that is compatible with their particular nature. To this end they are endowed with suitable faculties and activities; and by means of these there is in them a discernment that is natural and in keeping with the purpose of their knowledge, which ensures their natural inclination serving its purpose and being able to reach its fulfilment in that object towards which it is attracted by the weight of its own nature.

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Mean, Desire, Purpose

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• In Benedictine spirituality, work is what we do to continue what God wanted done....God goes on creating through us. Consequently a life spent serving God must be a life spent giving to others what we have been given.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Creating, Giving, Done

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• What we get in punk these days are layers of 'anti-', and so many of them are so self-serving. It's not about larger freedom.

  Geoff Rickly

  Self, Layers, Punk

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Leaders strengthen credibility by demonstrating that they are not in it for themselves, instead they have the interests of the institution, department, or team and its constituents at heart. Being a servant may not be what many leaders had in mind when they chose to take responsibility for the vision and direction of their organization or team - but serving others is the most glorious and rewarding of all leadership tasks.

  James M. Kouzes

  Team, Responsibility, Heart

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• We need to elect leaders who understand that leadership is about loving and serving people, not about self-advancement.

  Tavis Smiley

  Self, People, Leader

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Needs, Serving Others, Capitalism

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• As coercive monopolies that spend other people's money taken by force, governments are uniquely unqualified to solve problems. They are riddled by ignorance, perverse incentives, incompetence and are self-serving.

  John Stossel

  Taken, Ignorance, Government

  "Don't Look to Government to Cool Down the Planet". abcnews.go.com. November 14, 2007.

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• We are serving no one man, we are serving our country.

  Winfield Scott Hancock

  Country, Men, One Man

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• You are called not to be successful or to meet any of the other counterfeit standards of this world, but to be faithful and to be expended in the cause of serving the risen and returning Christ.

  Charles Colson

  Successful, Faithful, World

  Charles Colson (1994). “Faith on the Line”, Chariot Victor Publishing

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• I ask you to consider that our Lord Jesus Christ is your true head and that you are a member of his body. He belongs to you as the head belongs to the body. All that is his is yours: breath, heart, body, soul and all his faculties. All of these you must use as if they belonged to you, so that in serving him you may give him praise, love and glory.

  John Eudes

  Jesus, Heart, Giving

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• We know that service is indispensable for bringing us close to the Savior and letting us feel his Spirit. In nothing do we resemble the Savior more than in serving others. So in nothing should we feel greater love and joy than in service.

  Chieko N. Okazaki

  Joy, Spirit, Serving Others

  Chieko N. Okazaki (1995). “Aloha!”, Shadow Mountain

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• Frequently, we busily search for group service projects, which are surely needed and commendable, when quiet, personal service is also urgently needed. Sometimes the completing of an occasional group service project ironically salves our consciences when, in fact, we are constantly surrounded by a multitude of opportunities for individual service. In serving, as in true worship, we need to do some things together and some things personally. Our spiritual symmetry is our own responsibility, and balance is so important.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Spiritual, Responsibility, Opportunity

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• Separation of the Church and State is like a railroad track. It cannot be close to one another, neither can it be distant, because there will be derailment. We (Church) should cooperate with the government and the government should cooperate with us because we're serving the same people.

  Jaime Sin

  Government, People, Track

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• Serving the emerging whole means paying attention to what's right here within my awareness, what's completely local, and surrendering to what's being asked of me now.

  Betty Sue Flowers

  Mean, Attention, Awareness

  Peter M. Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, Betty Sue Flowers (2005). “Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society”, p.228, Crown Business

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• Yes and no. Because America has only about 1 percent of the population serving in the military, it is hard for many civilians to understand the sacrifices military families make. However, my experience is that after the Vietnam War, the public learned that they should support the military whether or not they support the war. You've seen that outpouring of support for the veterans of both Iraq and Afghanistan.

  Steve Stivers

  War, Military, Sacrifice

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• [E]mpathy - not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance - is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Self, Hands, Intellectual

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• The late Rev. Peter Gomes at The Memorial Church at Harvard was a true mentor to me when I was in college. He instilled in me a commitment to service, saying that it's not enough to believe in service, or support those who serve - you ought to find a way yourself to serve. When I looked at different options after college, nobody inspired me more than the 18- and 19-year-olds who serve on the front lines of our nation's military. Serving with them in the Marines as we together served our country was the greatest honor of my life to date.

  Seth Moulton

  Country, Military, Believe

  "Congress at War". www.politico.com. July, 2015.

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• Increasingly, people perceive no difference between the narcissistic self-serving reporters asking questions, and the narcissistic self-serving politicians who evade them.

  Michael Crichton

  Asking Questions, Self, Differences

  "Mediasaurus" by Michael Crichton, www.wired.com. April 1, 1993.

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• Men are especially intolerant of serving and being ruled by, their equals.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Men

  Baruch Spinoza (2017). “A Theologico-Political Treatise”, p.49, Jovian Press

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• Comedy is a noble art. And every comedian who does anything is serving a noble purpose.

  Margaret Cho

  Art, Comedian, Doe

  "Margaret Cho: Laugh Lines". Interview with Katie Halper, www.guernicamag.com. June 15, 2015.

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• When you are serving volunteer professional military, you take an oath to the Constitution, not to a policy or a president and you swear to obey the lawful orders of the democratically elected government. And so at the end of the day you could table your personal political views and do your job.

  Nathaniel Fick

  Jobs, Military, Government

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• For me, the only ego that needs serving in putting together a film is the story's, the ego of the story and it's the piece itself that you want to bring out the voice of the piece. You're really serving that and that's the thing that you have a basic understanding of.

  Julia Ormond

  Voice, Ego, Understanding

  Source: collider.com

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• O God, I confess I am not worthy to rock that little babe or wash its diapers, or to be entrusted with the care of a child and its mother. How is it that I without any merit have come to this distinction of being certain that I am serving thy creature and thy most precious will? Oh, how gladly will I do so. Though the duty should be even more insignificant and despised, neither frost nor heat, neither drudgery nor labor will distress me for I am certain that it is thus pleasing in thy sight.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Mother, Children, Rocks

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• I think Bush is amateurish and self-serving, and frankly, it's disgusting.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Thinking, Self, Disgusting

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• I came from advertising. For me it's about protecting the director's vision. That's always the goal. There's keeping things on budget and on time and dealing with selling the movie so that to me is a focus. But also it's about serving the script. We are genre filmmakers, those are the films we love to make, so my perspective is a little different.

  Charles Roven

  Goal, Perspective, Focus

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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