Servant Quotes - Page 31

• Self-justification is a treacherous servant.

  Wellington Mara

  Self, Justification, Treacherous

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• Sun of my soul, thou Savior dear, It is not night if thou be near. Oh, may no earthborn cloud arise To hide thee from thy servant's eyes.

  John Keble

  Eye, Night, Clouds

  John Keble, “Sun Of My Soul”

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• Man's knowledge of science has clearly outstripped his knowledge of man. Our only hope of making the atom servant rather than master lies in education, in a broad liberal education where each student within his capacity can free himself from trammels of dogmatic prejudice and apply his educational accoutrement to besetting social and human problems.

  Harry Woodburn Chase

  Education, Lying, Men

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• A servant church must have as its priority solidarity with the poor.

  Claudio Hummes

  Priorities, Church, Poor

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• Whenever Allah gives a blessing to a servant, and then takes it back from him, and the servant patiently endures his loss, then He rewards him with a blessing which is better than the one which He took back.

  Umar II

  Wisdom, Islamic, Loss

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  There are at the present moment many colored men in the Confederate army doing duty not only as cooks, servants and laborers , but as real soldiers, having muskets on their shoulders, and bullets in their pockets, ready to shoot down loyal troops, and do all that soldiers may to destroy the Federal Government and build up that of the traitors and rebels.

  Frederick Douglass

  Real, War, Army

  "The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass: The Civil War, 1861-1865".

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• Hold on to your own ideal. . . . Above all, never attempt to guide or rule others, or, as the Yankees say, "boss" others. Be the servant of all.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Yankees

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2034, Manonmani Publishers

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• Servants think of ministry as an opportunity, not an obligation. They enjoy helping people, meeting needs, and doing ministry.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Opportunity, Thinking

  "The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?". Book by Rick Warren, 2002.

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• Robinson had a servant even better than Friday: His name was Crusoe.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Friday, Self, Names

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master

  John Dryden

  Trust, Confidence, Keeping Secrets

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• In relations between the rich and the strong, between the rich and the poor, between the master and the servant, it's liberty that grinds down, and the law which liberates.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Strong, Law, Liberty

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• Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is our servant, not our master!

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, People, Southern

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• Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Experience has taught us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession, and when the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

  George Washington

  Freedom, Taken, Fire

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• Make thy recreation servant to thy business, lest thou become a slave to thy recreation.

  Francis Quarles

  Leisure, Slave, Recreation

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• Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

  Alan Clark

  Work, Apology, Giving

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• I look upon a good physician, not so properly as a servant to nature, as one, that is a counsellor and friendly assistant, who, in his patient's body, furthers those motions and other things, that he judges conducive to the welfare and recovery of it; but as to those, that he perceives likely to be hurtful, either by increasing the disease, or otherwise endangering the patient, he thinks it is his part to oppose or hinder, though nature do manifestly enough seem to endeavour the exercising or carrying on those hurtful motions.

  Robert Boyle

  Recovery, Exercise, Science

  Robert Boyle, Edward B. Davis, Michael Hunter (1996). “Robert Boyle: A Free Enquiry Into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature”, p.137, Cambridge University Press

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• To be free from all egoistic motive, careful of truth in speech and action, void of self-will and self-assertion, watchful in all things, is the condition for being a flawless servant.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Self, Speech, Flawless

  Sri Aurobindo, Aurobindo Ghose (1993). “The Integral Yoga: Sri Aurobindo's Teaching and Method of Practice”, p.143, Lotus Press

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• There'll be some savings from preventing double dipping by public servants which are currently able to access not one but two fully tax payer funded schemes and of course there will be out paid parental leave levy. So all up not only is this an important economic reform, an important reform to have to grow our economy more strongly, it also will leave the budget better off which will help us fix the mess that Labor has created with the budget.

  Tony Abbott

  Two, Important, Get Better

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• He who trusts a secret to his servant makes his own man his master.

  John Dryden

  Men, Secret, Secrecy

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• Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Heaven, Weakness

  Alexander Pope (1829). “An Essay on Man: And Other Poems”, p.21

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• The angels minister to God's servants in time of hardship and danger.

  Billy Graham

  Angel, Hardship, Danger

  Billy Graham (2009). “Graham 2in1 (Angels/Peace With God)”, p.52, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Technology and tools are useful and powerful when they are your servant and not your master.

  Stephen Covey

  Teamwork, Powerful, Technology

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• The man who has no inner life is a slave of his surroundings, as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air.

  Lisa Alther

  Men, Air, Life Is

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• They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world.

  Anthony Holden

  Real, Intelligent, Track

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• The mind must become the servant of the intellect, not the slave of the senses. It must discriminate and detach itself from the body. Like the ripe tamarind fruit, which, becomes loose inside the shell, it must be unattached to this shell, this casement called body.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Mind, Shells, Body

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