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Quotes About Servants

Do not suffer any man to baptize or minister unto you, unless God has spoken unto him by the voice of his servants, and authorized him to minister in his name
~ Orson Pratt
Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
That man is the most immortal who has done the most and the best praying. They are God heroes, God's saints, God's servants, God's vicegerents.
~ Edward McKendree Bounds
Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Lord…grant to Your servants that with all boldness they may speak Your word, by stretching out Your hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus" (Acts 4:29-30).
~ Terry Law
Understanding Authority Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers;
~ Terry Nance
Is there any Remover of difficulties save God? Say: Praised be God! He is God! All are His servants and all abide by His bidding!
~ The Bab
And without doubt it is better for thee and for all My other servants, that ye should be proved by adversities, than that ye should have all things as ye would. I know thy hidden thoughts: and that it is very needful for thy soul's health that sometimes thou be left without relish, lest perchance thou be lifted up by prosperity, and desirous to please thyself in that which thou art not.
~ Thomas a Kempis
See, one of the serious illusions we live under in the United States, which is a major part of the whole system of indoctrination, is the idea that the government is the power?and the government's not the power, the government is one segment of power. Real power is in the hands of the people who own the society; the state-managers are usually just servants.
~ Noam Chomsky
There are instruments and human players but sometimes a fiddle or a drum make instruments of those who play them, and all are put in servitude to the song.
~ Colson Whitehead
There are instruments and human players but sometimes a fiddle or a drum makes instruments of those who play them, and all are put in servitude to the song.
~ Colson Whitehead
The girl's vulgarities reminded Cora of the plantation and the stream of oaths delivered by the hands when master's eye was not on them. The small rebellion of servants everywhere.
~ Colson Whitehead
The Archons are the servants of the Demiurge. The Archons are ruling spirits, but they are false rulers.
~ Laurence Galian
Because God's promises extended to Abraham's house, he was to devote all that he had to the Lord by use of the covenant sign. This meant that all who were part of Abraham's household in that ancient society were to be devoted to God by circumcision-sons, dependent relatives, and servants (Gen. 17:23; cf. Ex. 12:43-48).
~ Gregg Strawbridge
Fear has also been used to carry out a redistribution of wealth—which is to say back under the control of the state, where Putin is chief among a collection of officials whose roles more closely resemble those of Mafia dons than public servants.
~ Gregory Feifer
As we view the achievements of aggregated capital, we discover the existence of trusts, combinations, and monopolies, while the citizen is struggling far in the rear or is trampled to death beneath an iron heel. Corporations, which should be the carefully constrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the people's masters.
~ Grover Cleveland
Good priests never look for awards and, perversely enough in the clerical culture universe, do not receive many. Like the aged nuns who taught selflessly and nearly anonymously all their lives, these servants of the People of God only get into the papers when their obituaries are printed.
~ Eugene Kennedy
Build a house?" exclaimed John."For the Wendy, " said Curly."For Wendy?" John said, aghast. "Why, she is only a girl!""That, " explained Curly, "is why we are her servants.
~ J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler.
~ W. C. Fields
América Latina: ruínas, natureza e umas figuras imprecisas - os criados e o gerente do hotel.
~ Octavio Paz
The blowing winds are but our servants When we hoist a sail.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Evil isn't best served by equally evil servants.
~ Orson Scott Card
And the Nation echoed and enforced this self-criticism, saying: Be content to be servants, and nothing more; what need of higher culture for half-men? Away with the black man's ballot, by force or fraud,—and behold the suicide of a race!
~ W.E.B. Du Bois
Being a Jew was a disadvantage; being a nonbeliever who claimed no religion was a disqualifier. The empire required that all of its servants, including professors, be a member of some religion. On his official forms, Einstein had written that he had none. "Einstein is as unpractical as a child in cases like this," Friedrich Adler's wife noted.
~ Walter Isaacson