Quotes About Servants

God has found out the guilt of your servants;

How much more properly did the apostles call themselves servants of the present Christ and not vicars of an absent Christ.

God's servants must think nothing below them but sin.

From this point onward, all that mattered was the faithful completion of his task... the words might not even be heard. Yet he also knew that the mission was not so much about success but about whether he stood firm in obedience. It was the cross, rooted in the dust of the earth, watered by the blood of God's servants, the sign pointing to heaven, soaring upward into pure light.

It is a reflection of a well-known social problem during the Victorian age, when female servants were often made pregnant by the master of the house or one of his sons.

Lo, all maidservants are rude in their speech, When the mistress speaks it irks the servants.

I stand so much in need, is neglected. My servants aspire to science in order to please you, and all neglect nothing so much as what they have to do. To argue is the occupation of the whole of my household, and argument banishes reason from it The one burns my roast, while reading some history; the other dreams of verses, while I am asking for something to drink.

In short, I see your example followed by them, and though I have servants, I am not served.

Come forward as servants of Islam, organise the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.

The gifts of God often come to you from the hands of other human beings, through God's servants. And so, Divine love also expresses itself between human beings. The sheikhs are the pourers of the wine and the dervish is the glass. Love is the wine. By the hand of the wine pourer, the glass—the dervish— is filled.

think about the way God rules. He doesn't do it by sending in the tanks. He does it by calling servants.

Edith's father had always told her that if you wanted to measure the character of a man, then watch how he dealt with his servants.

Waste men and waste women (and especially waste children, the adolescent boys who comprised a majority of the indentured servants) were an expendable class of laborers who made colonization possible.

Society tends to be unjust, but not in the way the conceited imagine. There are always more masters who do not deserve their position than servants who do not deserve theirs.

Quand je pense qu'il est des domestiques qui passent leur vie à débiner leurs maîtres, à les embêter, à les menacer… Quelles brutes !… Quand je pense qu'il en est qui voudraient les tuer… Les tuer !… Et puis après ?… Est-ce qu'on tue la vache qui nous donne du lait, et le mouton de la laine… On trait la vache… on tond le mouton… adroitement… en douceur…

For the kingdom of Heaven is as a man traveling into a far country who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.

For the kingdom of Heaven is as a man traveling into a far country who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods. And unto One he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey

These people make one feel as if a stronger memory of our former innocence remains in them, as if they were a freak of nature, not entirely battered by the Fall. Perhaps they are messengers, like the servants who find a lost prince who's unaware of his origins, show him the robe that he

Even the servants, when asked by my mother about the meeting, answered as if it were their spontaneous thought, that it had been really interesting. These were the self-same servants who had been bitterly complaining on the way home that political meetings are the most boring thing in the world

He demands absolute righteousness from His servants, because He has put into them the very nature of God.

If it were profitable to have indentured servants in the modern world, I'm sure that Richard Scaife's think tanks would have no trouble finding justifications, and assorted Christian groups would explain why it's God's will.

Rumours began with the whispered gossip of native servants and spread quickly to the rest of the population.

Whilst in the process of losing all his money, Cardano noticed that his opponent had marked the cards. Whereupon he leapt up, slashed his opponent across the face with his dagger and grabbed the money. Outwitting his host's spear-wielding servants, he fled into the night-shrouded maze of the streets, eventually falling into a canal. [Footnote: It is interesting to note that Cardano may well have been rector of the University of Padua at the time.]

When I pulled up in D's wagon, I nearly always got a chaste kiss on the cheek. We'd have a drink on the veranda and discuss what had happened on the farm while I was away, the servants milling around us, always happy to see me home. But as soon as night fell and we were alone, the mood turned chilly fast. Jock never tried to touch me sexually—that