Quotes About Servant

A Christian is free and independent in every respect, a bond servant to none. A Christian is a dutiful servant in every respect, owing a duty to everyone.

In a servant leadership culture we learn by choice or example that if we want to be great, we have to serve others respectfully.

No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is not a hero, but because the valet is a valet.

Voltaire said about God that 'there is no God, but don't tell that to my servant, lest he murder me at night'.

Different languages, the same thoughts; servant to thoughts and their masters.

Servant leadership always empathizes, always accepts the person, but sometimes refuses to accept some of the person's effort or performance as good enough.

Bosses push, Leaders pull. Real leadership is servant leadership.

In Cree, an oskâpêwis is a servant or a helper, someone who hauls in rocks for sweats, or pipes or medicines. I equate that to leadership. You're a servant or helper of people.

There came another explosion, and Jonathan flinched, but Mamoud moved not at all, and somehow his calm steadied Jonathan. He had the demeanor of a doctor or a civil servant, in a useful way.

Laws disarming honest citizens proclaim that the government is the master, not the servant, of the people.

Love God, love people. Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly. Treat people as you want to be treated. If you want to be great, be a servant.

In that manner Hareton, who should now be the first gentleman in the neighbourhood, was reduced to a state of complete dependence on his father's inveterate enemy; and lives in his own house as a servant, deprived of the advantage of wages: quite unable to right himself, because of his friendlessness, and his ignorance that he has been wronged.

That's what you got for being a servant of no ambition: a shrunken life, hung up like a gibbet as a warning to others.

So if you're not Artemis Fowl, then who are you? The boy extended a dripping hand straight up. My name is Orion. I am so pleased to meet you at last. I am, of course, your servant. Holly shook the proferred hand, thinking that manners were lovely, but she really needed someone cunning and ruthless right now, and this kid didn't appear to be very cunning.

I am Butler. Anything I say sounds scary.

Butler tilted the clone's head back, pinched its nose

The markets make a good servant but a bad master, and a worse religion.

The pinnacle of the fulfillment I can ever experience for my spirit and soul is to hear from the Lord, when I see Him face to face, 'Well done my good and faithful servant.'

My legacy doesn't matter. It isn't important that I be remembered. It's important that when I stand before the Lord, he says, 'Well done, good and faithful servant.' I want to finish strong.

For those of you who pray, I ask that you pray that I will always judge with wisdom and integrity as a faithful servant of the law.

I can't tell you how Aquinas has enriched and changed my life, my thought. He has helped me to be a better evangelical, a better servant of Christ, and to better defend the faith that was delivered, once for all, to the saints.

Yeah. Floyd is his batman." His what?" Batman, like in the British army, each officer had a batman, a personal servant." You spend too much time reading, Spenser. You know more stuff that don't make you money than anybody I know.

why do we personify time? Is it because we're afraid to admit that our lives are measured by an abstract force that neither knows nor cares about our entry into existence? Or our departure into death? Time is our mysterious master giving it a face and hands we attempt to transform it into our servant.

Albert Einstein called the intuitive or metaphoric mind a sacred gift. He added that the rational mind was a faithful servant. It is paradoxical that in the context of modern life we have begun to worship the servant and defile the divine. —Bob Samples, The Metaphoric Mind