Serving Quotes - Page 5

• Journalism's ultimate purpose is to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the serving of special interests.

  Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

  Home, Special, Purpose

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• The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?

  Max De Pree

  Leadership, Learning, Grace

  Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

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• Those who believe in the importance of serving others should lead the way by fighting against the temptation we all have, and maybe especially as we age, to close in upon ourselves.

  Marvin Olasky

  Believe, Fighting, Temptation

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• The other day at a drive-through, I reminded the teenage girl serving me that she forgot my drinks. She looked at me, hissed, rolled her eyes, and then took her sweet time getting me the sodas.

  Neil Cavuto

  Girl, Sweet, Teenage

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• If you allow one little sin to creep into your life, and think it doesn't matter, it will grow and grow until it affects your whole spiritual life, deflecting you from your primary aim of serving God.

  Angus Buchan

  Spiritual, Thinking, Littles

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• Total openness to serving others is our hallmark, it alone is our title of honour!

  Pope Francis

  Honor, Titles, Serving Others

  Pope Francis' homily to the Holy Mass with the new Cardinals at Vatican Basilica, w2.vatican.va. February 15, 2015.

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• Terrorism has replaced Communism as the rationale for the militarization of the country [America], for military adventures abroad, and for the suppression of civil liberties at home. It serves the same purpose, serving to create hysteria.

  Howard Zinn

  Country, Military, Home

  Howard Zinn (2011). “Terrorism and War”, p.38, Seven Stories Press

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• "Stand still" - keep the posture of an upright man, ready for action, expecting further orders, cheerfully and patiently awaiting the directing voice; and it will not be long ere God shall say to you, as distinctly as Moses said it to the people of Israel, "Go forward."

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Voice, Israel

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1990). “Day by Day with C.H. Spurgeon”, p.20, Kregel Publications

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• The potential of any technology is always dissipated by its users involvement in its predecessors...Computer are still serving mainly to sustain precomputer effects.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Politics, Computer

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• For me right now I think being the world number one is a bigger deal than being the world champion because I think it shows better who plays the best chess. That sounds self-serving but I think it's also right.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Thinking, Self, Play

  "The Top Chess Player In The World Impressed The Heck Out Of Everyone At This NYC Exhibition". Interview with Gus Lubin, www.businessinsider.com. September 4, 2012.

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• I remember serving in Vietnam in that war, and many of us at the major Lieutenant Colonel, colonel level were frustrated that no one in the U.S. wanted to debate it that way.

  William Eldridge Odom

  War, Frustrated, Vietnam

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• Men may deprive me of property and honour; sickness may take away my strength and other means of serving You; I may even lose Your grace by sin; but never, never will I lose my hope in You. I will cherish it unto that dreadful moment when all hell will be unchained to snatch my soul away. "No one has hoped in the Lord and has been confounded"

  Claude de la Colombiere

  Mean, Men, Grace

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• It is certain that the love of God does not consist in this sweetness and tenderness which we for the most part desire; but rather in serving Him in justice, fortitude, and humility. His Majesty seeks and loves courageous souls.

  Teresa of Avila

  Humility, Justice, Soul

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• The issue is not going to church; rather, the issue is worshipping and renewing covenants as we attend church. The issue is not going to or through the temple; rather, the issue is having in our hearts the spirit, the covenants, and the ordinances of the Lord's house. The issue is not going on a mission; rather, the issue is becoming a missionary and serving throughout our entire life with all of our heart, might, mind, and strength.

  David A. Bednar

  Heart, Issues, House

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• Among many who sought to deter me, was one dear old Christian gentleman, whose crowning argument always was, "The cannibals! you will be eaten by cannibals!" At last I replied, "Mr. Dickson, you are advanced in years now, and your own prospect is soon to be laid in the grave, there to be eaten by worms; I confess to you, that if I can but live and die serving and honouring the Lord Jesus, it will make no difference to me whether I am eaten by cannibals or by worms."

  John Gibson Paton

  Christian, Jesus, Years

  John Gibson Paton (1907). “John G. Paton, missionary to the New Hebrides: An autobiography edited by his brother. New and complete illustrated edition: 1824-1907”

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• If we are devoted to the cause of humanity, we shall soon be crushed and broken-hearted, for we shall often meet with more ingratitude from men than we would from a dog; but if our motive is love to God, no ingratitude can hinder us from serving our fellow men.

  Oswald Chambers

  Dog, Men, Broken

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.118, Discovery House

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• Serving throughout the world is a great missionary force going about doing good. Missionaries teach truth. They dispel darkness. They spread joy. They bring precious souls to Christ.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Joy, Soul, Darkness

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• I am proud that the Republican Party stands for strong support for the military, and I am sure we will consistently support our men and women serving in dangerous places around the world and their families.

  John Shimkus

  Strong Women, Military, Party

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• News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself.

  Rose Macaulay

  Food, Cooking, Culture

  Rose Macaulay (1926). “A Casual Commentary”

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• The life of a plural wife, she'd found, was a life lived under constant comparison, a life spent wondering. Sitting across from her sister-wives at Sunday dinner, the platters and serving dishes floating past like hovercraft, the questions were almost inescapable; Who of us is the most happy? Which of us is his one true love? Who does he desire the most?

  Brady Udall

  Sunday, Past, Wife

  Brady Udall (2010). “The Lonely Polygamist: A Novel”, p.150, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it. Now 30 years on The Body Shop is a multi local business with over 2.045 stores serving over 77 million customers in 51 different markets in 25 different languages and across 12 time zones. And I haven't a clue how we got here!

  Anita Roddick

  Years, Time Zones, Creating

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• The tea ceremony requires years of training and practice ... yet the whole of this art, as to its detail, signifies no more than the making and serving of a cup of tea. The supremely important matter is that the act be performed in the most perfect, most polite, most graceful, most charming manner possible.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Art, Years, Practice

  Lafcadio Hearn (2005). “Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation”, p.390, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If you put your heart against the earth with me
  In serving every creature, our Beloved will enter you
  From our sacred realm, and we will be, we will be
  So happy.

  Rumi

  Heart, Earth, Sacred

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “That Lives In Us”

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• Self-justification and judging others go together, as justification by grace and serving others go together.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Self, Judging, Grace

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.70, SCM Press

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• Strive to see God in all things without exception. Do not smother yourself...If you start smothering yourself with a host of cares and longings and wishes ... you will be disabling yourself from serving God with all your heart.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Heart, Wish, Care

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