Serving Quotes - Page 23

• Serving the Truth becomes our life instead of just an isolated event. It takes the abstractness out of spirituality. That's the opportunity of real spirituality: to be in service to the silence of the heart.

  Adyashanti

  Real, Heart, Opportunity

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• All fundamentalist theologians make the ordinances of creation an essential part of creation and absolutize them. Women belong at home, fulfil their life through motherhood, by caring for their husbands and serving them. The fixed role pattern of one particular economic and family order is transformed into an order willed by God and given by creation. With a methodologically similar logic, slaves were understood as those elected by God to serve the whites.

  Dorothee Solle

  Husband, Home, Caring

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• The world badly needs more peaceful and loving men like Sri Chinmoy. I am a Muslim and he is serving all people of peace. Sri Chinmoy is doing so much for the world, for people of all faiths, because of his own peace and faith.

  Muhammad Ali

  Men, People, Peaceful

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• Challenging schools to treat their students as customers with a choice, instead of inmates serving time.

  David Warlick

  School, Choices, Challenges

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• What we get in punk these days is the "anti-anti": Someone comes up with something, then the next generation is against that, and then the next generation is against that, and then that thing becomes a problem. There's these layers of anti-, and so many of them are just so self-serving. It's not about larger freedom.

  Geoff Rickly

  Self, Next, Generations

  "United Nations". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2014.

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• The territorial aristocracy of former ages was either bound by law, or thought itself bound by usage, to come to the relief of its serving-men and to relieve their distresses. But the manufacturing aristocracy of our age first impoverishes and debases the men who serve it and then abandons them to be supported by the charity of the public.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Law, Age

  "Democracy in America" by Alexis de Tocqueville, Volume II, Book Two, Chapter XX, 1840.

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• Audiences, as they get smaller, can intensify their relationship with the product, and so can the creative relationship with the people that you are serving. The good news is that, the more shows there are, the less the conglomerates have to gain by breaking the will of each individual creative.

  Dan Harmon

  People, Creative, News

  "EMMYS: 'Community's Dan Harmon". Interview with Diane Haithman, deadline.com. June 18, 2011.

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• Actors can be many things - vain, venal, self-serving, obnoxious, bullies - but all of the good ones are great storytellers. I wanted to watch what my actors were doing and how they were telling the story.

  Paul Bettany

  Self, Bully, Stories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Advocating democracy has, by other people, often been taken as a form of imperialism, and not without some justification. So the important thing in a democracy is that it doesn't necessarily have to agree with what America's interests are, and it doesn't necessarily have to be serving American interests.

  George Soros

  Taken, Democracies Have, America

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I came back from university thinking I knew all about politics and racism, not knowing my dad had been one of the youngest-serving Labour councillors in the town and had refused to work in South Africa years ago because of the situation there. And he's never mentioned it - you just find out. That's a real man to me. A sleeping lion.

  Johnny Vegas

  Dad, Real, Sleep

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• So what really gets me is these chickenhawks, who sent our kids to die, without ever serving in a war themselves. They don't know what it's all about

  Cindy Sheehan

  War, Kids, Knows

  Cindy Sheehan (2005). “Not One More Mother's Child”, Koa Books Incorporated

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• The completeness of this transformation appalled me. It was unlike anything I had imagined. I became two men, the serving one, and the one who panicked, who felt Negroid even to the depths of my entrails. I felt the beginings of great loneliness, not because I was a Negro, but because the man I had been, the self I knew, was hidden in the flesh of another.

  John Howard Griffin

  Loneliness, Men, Two

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• The great thing about serving the poor is that there is no competition.

  Eugene Rivers

  Competition, Black History, Poor

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• Everybody felt his superiority, but nobody felt oppressed by it. Though he had no illusions about people and human affairs, he was full of kindness toward everybody and everything. Never did he give the impression of domineering, always of serving and helping. He was extremely conscientious, without allowing anything to assume undue importance; a subtle humor guarded him, which was reflected in his eyes and in his smile.

  Albert Einstein

  Kindness, Eye, People

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.76, Broadway Books

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• Christianity sees plants and flowers as created by God to show forth and share with humans the divine goodness, beauty and truth - the purpose of all Creation. In this flowers may be enjoyed simply and directly in themselves as showing forth God's goodness and beauty, or, more fully, as archetypes, signatures, symbols, and bearers of legends, mirroring the revealed articles of Christian faith - thereby serving as means for their teaching, recollection, contemplation and celebration.

  John Stokes

  Beauty, Christian, Truth

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• Pope Gelasius in his ninth letter (chap. 26) to the bishops of Lucania condemned the evil practice which had been introduced of women serving the priest at the celebration of Mass. Since this abuse had spread to the Greeks, Innocent IV strictly forbade it in his letter to the bishop of Tusculum: 'Women should not dare to serve at the altar; they should be altogether refused this ministry.' We too have forbidden this practice in the same words.

  Pope Benedict XIV

  Powerful, Practice, Evil

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• I can only become perfectly free by serving the will of God.

  Thomas Merton

  Catholic, Gods Will, I Can

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.26, Shambhala Publications

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• Be kindly and just in your dealings with your men. Never play favorites. Make them feel that justice tempered with mercy may always be counted on. This does not mean a slackening of discipline. Obedience to orders and regulations must always be insisted upon, and good conduct on the part of the men exacted. Especially should this be done with reference to civilian inhabitants of foreign countries in which Marines are serving.

  John A. Lejeune

  Country, Mean, Marine

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• The self-commissioned architect is the obviously exclusive potential - for as at present used, or designed, the world's resources are serving only forty-four per cent of humanity.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Self, Humanity, World

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2009). “Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure”, p.53, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• When mind and heart come together, mind serves consciousness instead of serving itself.

  David Icke

  Spiritual, Heart, Mind

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• You can only govern men by serving them.

  Victor Cousin

  Leadership, Men, Exception

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• The secret to greatness is in serving everyone else.

  Myles Munroe

  Leadership, Greatness, Secret

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• We will never find joy in church membership when we are constantly seeking things our way. But paradoxically, we will find the greatest joy when we choose to be last. That's what Jesus meant when He said the last will be first. True joy means giving up our rights and preferences and serving everyone else.

  Thom S. Rainer

  Jesus, Giving Up, Mean

  Thom S. Rainer (2013). “I Am a Church Member: Discovering the Attitude that Makes the Difference”, p.36, B&H Publishing Group

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• As a Christian, there is no other part of the New Right ideology that concerns me more than its self-serving misuse of religious faith.

  Mark Hatfield

  Christian, Religious, Self

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• If he really wanted to make it a prayer for peace he should have listened to both sides of the story and reflected reality, rather than serving the Zionist side alone.

  Mohammed Daoud Khan

  Prayer, Reality, Should Have

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