Serving Quotes - Page 27

• I believe in prayer. I believe in gratitude and serving people.

  Kiran Bedi

  Gratitude, Prayer, Believe

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• So make it your aim and lifelong habit, when you see someone who's serving, to be reminded of the sacrifice of the Savior, for apart from His sacrifice there is no serving.

  C. J. Mahaney

  Sacrifice, Habit, Lifelong

  C.J. Mahaney (2008). “Humility: True Greatness”, p.33, Multnomah

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• I think poetry can be a kind of secular way in which people can be led to approach the difficult parts of their life, where there's been loss, where there's sadness of a deep kind. If poetry can help people to be more at ease in expressing even to themselves a lot of the darkness and pain of ordinary human existence, then it's serving some kind of cultural role, perhaps more than a cultural role, perhaps it is serving something of a spiritual role.

  Kevin Hart

  Spiritual, Pain, Sadness

  "The Poetry and Prayers of Kevin Hart". "Encounter" with Carmel Howard, www.abc.net.au. June 5, 2011.

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• Pretty is a self-serving situation in which it's all about you. People who are pretty are superficial, but they are not beautiful. Beauty requires more depth.

  Diane Keaton

  Beautiful, Self, People

  "Diane Keaton on Woody Allen's feet, Al Pacino's nose" by Bob Minzesheimer, www.usatoday.com. April 28, 2014.

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• By going into third world countries and serving, by actually feeding and helping people, I've been led to focus a little more on how people here try to be happy by ignoring other people who are unhappy.

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  Ram Dass

  Country, People, Focus

  "An Interview with Ram Dass" by Eliot Jay Rosen, www.vegetarianusa.com.

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• The most available example of how poetry works for a poet is yourself, and yet you'll probably be the last one to know exactly how you're serving the art and how the art is serving you.

  Wendell Berry

  Art, Example, Lasts

  "Singing to Keep the Mind Awake: Interview with Wendell Berry". Interview with Birkin Gilmore, poems.com. 2007.

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• I couldn't give you a count of the number of single women I have in our congregation that are serving in very significant ways in the community. Our desire is for them to live all of life to the glory of God whether God calls them to be a wife or a mother or not.

  Ligon Duncan

  Mother, Numbers, Giving

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• I am not a speaker nor a preacher. I have no mission to change the world. I have no original words or teaching to give anyone. I reflect only what I've seen and heard - most ordinary, very common. I have no fascination for fresh ideas and activity. All enthusiasm for worldly endeavours and strivings have all but gone. For me, thoughts, words and deeds- the activities of life, are merely the utensils for serving out the 'prasad' of the Being-ness.

  Mooji

  Teaching, Ideas, Giving

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• I'm just waiting for God to tell me what to do, but whatever it is, I want to be doing something like I am doing now-serving God and helping people.

  Bethany Hamilton

  People, Waiting, Want

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• This pre-eminence is something [men] have unjustly arrogated to themselves. And when it's said that women must be subject to men, the phrase should be understood in the same sense as when we say we are subject to natural disasters, diseases, and all the other accidents of this life: it's not a case of being subjected in the sense of obeying, but rather of suffering an imposition, not a case of serving them fearfully, but rather of tolerating them in a spirit of Christian charity, since they have been given to us by God as a spiritual trial.

  Moderata Fonte

  Christian, Spiritual, Men

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• War, and more wars, are helping Government to siphon the earnings of its people into its treasury for its own selfish purpose, which is to rule the people for the Government instead of for the purpose of serving the people. When will the people see that the very taxes they pay are building a power to be used against them?

  Walter Russell

  Peace, Selfish, War

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• I have learned that it is by serving that we learn how to serve. When we engaged in the service of our fellowmen, not only do our deeds assist them but we put our own problems in fresher perspective. When we concern ourselves more with others, there is less time to be concerned with ourselves

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Perspective, Deeds, Problem

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• It is hard to feel bad about yourself when you are doing something good for someone else. There are a lot of ways to lift your self-esteem, but making a positive difference in another's life has got to be my best leadership guidance. Serving others and working to add value to them will lift your spirits in a way that nothing else will. Trust me on this one.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Self Esteem, Differences

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• William Perkins said, “The end of a man’s calling is not to gather riches for himself…but to serve God in the serving of man, and in the seeking the good of all men.

  Leland Ryken

  Men, Calling, Riches

  Leland Ryken (2010). “Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were”, p.115, Harper Collins

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• For most young Americans I know, 'serving' in the broadest sense now seems like the only thing to do.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Young, Things To Do, Knows

  "Chelsea in 2016? Just a Minute! What About Hillary?" By Carol Felsenthal, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 30, 2008.

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• The real story of our times is seldom told in the horse-puckey-filled memoirs of dopey, self-serving presidents or generals, but in the outrageous, demented lives of guys like Lenny Bruce, Giordano Bruno, Scott Fitzgerald - and Paul Krassner. The burrs under society's saddle. The pains in the ass.

  Harlan Ellison

  Horse, Pain, Real

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• If there is anything worth serving, it's this love. If there is anything worth being, it's this love. If there is anything worth talking about it's this love. If there is anything of real value it's this love.

  Kenny Johnson

  Real, Talking, Ifs

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• We cannot ignore the disparity in resources that continue to plague many of our school systems, especially those serving predominantly inner-city minority and impoverished children.

  Diane Watson

  Children, School, Cities

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• Being 'poor in spirit' (a Christian virtue) means being detached from things - being able to possess goods without being possessed by them. It meansputting people ahead of possessions - and seeing material things only as instruments for serving God and the needs of others.

  James Stenson

  Christian, Mean, People

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• We often say 'love' when we really mean, and are acting out, an addiction-a sterile, ingrown dependency relationship, with another person serving as the object of our need for security.

  Stanton Peele

  Mean, Addiction, Acting

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• The member of a contractual society is free because he serves others only in serving himself. What restrains him is only the inevitable natural phenomenon of scarcity.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Society, Scarcity, Natural

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays”

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• We live in a selectively infantilized culture where twentysomethings are children if they're serving in the Third Infantry Division in Ramadi but grown-ups making rational choices if they drop to the broadloom in President Clinton's Oval Office.

  Mark Steyn

  Children, Infantry Division, Office

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• Rather than waste precious time arguing, I went up and started serving my "sentence" without delay. It was usually about an hour for epigrams; somewhat longer for a paradox.

  Peter De Vries

  Punishment, Delay, Waste

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• Serving the reader by working cooperatively with the writer? Sometimes throwing 'the rules' out the window? Clearing the decks of pet peeves, mythical prohibitions and intractability? That is subversive. And welcome.

  Craig Lancaster

  Pet, Welcome, Sometimes

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• If you don't know how to serve men, why worry about serving the gods?

  Confucius

  Men, Worry, Confucianism

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