Quotes About Servant

So quickly, without a moment's warning, does the miraculous swerve and point to us, demanding that we be its willing servant.

In "Working Ethics: William Beaumont, Alexis St. Martin, and Medical Research in Antebellum America," historian Alexa Green explains the men's relationship as clearly one of master and servant." If the man wants to push a piece of mutton through your side, you let him.

He waved irritably at a waiter. There was a small bar in a dark corner of the room, where an old, wizened bartender stood for long stretches of time without moving. When called upon, he moved with contemptuous slowness. His job was that of servant to men's relaxation and pleasure, but his manner was that of an embittered quack ministering to some guilty disease.

Today at the Melchor market, a fantastical sight. A servant girl with a birdcage on her back, full of birds. She wore her blue shawl wrapped around the cage and tied in front to hold it. The willow cage must have been very light because she was not bent over, yet it towered over her head, with turrets like a Japanese pagoda. And full of birds: green and yellow, flapping about like dreams trying to escape from a skull.

which is a common term for the Lord God but is also a term that could be used, for example, by a slave for his master.

Throughout this section of Acts, Luke repeatedly refers to Jesus as a "servant" (3: 13, 26; 4: 27, 30), the only New Testament writer to do so (cf. Luke 22: 26–27).

Your planning tool should be your servant, never your master.

Every year in late May, hundreds of pilgrims made the arduous journey across the salty marshland of the Camargue to celebrate the Festival of Saint Sarah, the servant girl who accompanied the Marys on their magical boat.

Rule with the heart of a servant. Serve with the heart of a king.

Every master has the servant he deserves.

The person of faith looks up to God, not at him or down on him. The servant assumes a certain posture, a stance. If he or she fails to take that posture, attentive responsiveness to the master's commands will be hard.

I remain your servant and I will do as you ask of me.

But I must think that an address to his majesty to remove one of his servants, without so much as alleging any particular crime against him, is one of the greatest encroachments that was ever made upon the prerogatives of the crown.

You don't put your head above the parapet and become a personality if you're an illustrator - it's not part of it; it's not possible. You are a servant to the story.

I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself.

steward, bailiff, falconer, houndmaster

A warrior-servant lives and does by the quest with which he fully aligns himself. This mission will always involve sacrificing for the benefit of others

I often pray, "Lord, I'm your servant. I'll follow you even if it's into apparent failure, because I have no rights to success as I define it, or as the church defines it, or as my culture defines it. I'm only interested in pleasing you and being successful as you define it.

We reign with the heart of a servant and serve with the heart of a king, all for the benefit of the people around us. Rulers in God's Kingdom never rule for their own sake. It is always for the sake of others.

Rule with the heart of a servant, and serve with the heart of a king. This is how Jesus used His authority.

Royalty is my identity. Servanthood is my assignment. Intimacy with God is my life source. So, before God, I'm an intimate. Before people, I'm a servant. Before the powers of hell, I'm a ruler, with no tolerance for their influence.

Rule with the heart of a servant, and serve with the heart of a king.

Rule with the heart of a servant. Serve with the heart of a king.

I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.