Serving Quotes - Page 25

• The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Church, Ordinary, Helping

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• John McEnroe looks as if he is serving round the edge of an imaginary building.

  Clive James

  Tennis, Looks, Building

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• The key to the match might have been his serving. Maybe I should have concentrated harder on watching them go by me, I don't know.

  Andy Roddick

  Should Have, Keys, Tennis

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• Serving democracy and nourishing the common good is, for the media, something that requires not only attacking corrupt secrecies in a society, but also defending non-corrupt communication.

  Rowan Williams

  Communication, Media, Democracy

  "This media tribe disfigures public life" by Rowan Williams, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2005.

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• We can find meaning and reward by serving some higher purpose than ourselves, a shining purpose, the illumination of a Thousand Points of Light...We all have something to give.

  George H. W. Bush

  Light, Illumination, Giving

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• It seems to me that we spend an inordinate amount of time and attention on fixing ourselves when we could really be directing that out to serving others.

  Eve Ensler

  Attention, Fixing, Serving Others

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• I do not know how to love God except by loving the poor. I do not know how to serve God except by serving the poor.... Here, within this great city of nine million people, we must, in this neighborhood, on this street, in this parish, regain a sense of community which is the basis for peace in the world.

  Dorothy Day

  Cities, People, Community

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• The universe will always remove what is no longer serving you.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Remove, Universe

  Twitter post from Feb 18, 2013

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• Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their thumbs at each other in the open square; but Hamlet came out of his soul, and Romeo out of his passion.

  Oscar Wilde

  Passion, Men, White

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1491, Delphi Classics

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• Let us pray that the Church be holier and more humble, loving God by serving the poor, the lonely and the sick.

  Pope Francis

  Lonely, Humble, Sick

  Pope Francis @Pontifex, twitter.com. August 16, 2014.

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• Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one's faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one's life

  St. Jerome

  Heart, Dying, Doe

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• If you are worshipping God without depending on the Spirit of God, you are serving a god you do not know.

  T. B. Joshua

  Spirit, Worship God, Knows

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• It is only serving God that is doing immortal work; it is only living for Christ that is living at all.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christ, Immortal, Working It

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• The Lord has a great work for each of us to do. You may wonder how this can be. You may feel that there is nothing special or superior about you or your ability. ... The Lord can do remarkable miracles with a person of ordinary ability who is humble, faithful, and diligent in serving the Lord and seeks to improve himself. This is because God is the ultimate source of power.

  James E. Faust

  Humble, Miracle, Faithful

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• Repentance is more than just sorrow for the past; repentance is a change of mind and heart, a new life of denying self and serving the Savior as king in self's place.

  J. I. Packer

  Kings, Heart, Past

  J. I. Packer, Mark Dever (2008). “Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God”, p.79, InterVarsity Press

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• One of the greatest rewards that we ever receive for serving God is the permission to do still more for Him.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Rewards, Permission, Serving God

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• But there's no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We're not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it's hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.

  Banksy

  Artist, Self, Views

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• Serving God doesn’t mean we’ll no longer have difficulties. We’re still on the battlefield, but we don’t have to fight alone.

  Joyce Meyer

  Mean, Fighting, Difficulty

  Twitter post from Jan 3, 2013

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• It is by serving God and others that we store up heavenly treasures. Everyone gains; no one loses.

  Randy Alcorn

  Treasure, Gains, Stores

  Randy Alcorn (2003). “The Law of Rewards”, p.67, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• If we can fall in love with serving people, creating value, solving problems, building valuable connections and doing work that matters, it makes it far more likely we're going to do important work

  Seth Godin

  Falling In Love, Creating Value, People

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• Most of us hide behind egocentric biases that generate the illusion that we are special. These self-serving protective shields allow us to believe that each of us is above average on any test of self-integrity. Too often we look to the stars through the thick lens of personal invulnerability when we should also look down to the slippery slope beneath our feet.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Stars, Integrity, Believe

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• A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless. I want to devote my limited life to serving the people limitlessly.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Want, Life Is

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• In fact, I think that Governor Clinton, when he was running, and President Clinton, when he was serving, actually governed with a wide range of advisors and a perspective that blended the best of ideas from the center and the left.

  John Podesta

  Running, Thinking, Ideas

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• I was chef to the French Presidents between '56 and '59, finished with de Gaulle, and during de Gaulle I remember serving Eisenhower, Nehru, Tito, Macmillan; those were the heads of state at the time. I never saw anyone. No one would ever, ever, ever come to the kitchen. You couldn't even see them.

  Jacques Pepin

  Kitchen, President, Nehru

  "Jacques Pã©pin Is Not A Mallow Man" by Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2012.

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• I find historical figures in general very tricky because you feel at times that you're serving two masters. Not only the arc and wonderful writing that comes with the show, but also the history of a person's life.

  Vincent Piazza

  Writing, Two, Historical

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