#servant

I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will become a sovereign. ↗

— James K. Polk

#become #cease #close #heartily #i

Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us. ↗

— Jef Raskin

#now #oppressing #our #right #servant

I'll see a photograph of a character and try to copy them on to my face. I think I'm really observant, and thinking how a person is put together, seeing them on the street and noticing subtle things about them that make them who they are. ↗

— Cindy Sherman

#character #copy #face #how #i

Being others-focused instead of self-focused changes your worldview. Living in a selfless manner and seeking to help others enriches our very existence on a daily basis. Get your hands dirty once in a while by serving in a capacity that is lower than your position or station in life. This keeps you tethered to the real world and grounded to reality, which should make it harder to be prideful and forget where you came from. ↗

— Miles Anthony Smith

#leadership #quotes-to-live-by #sacrifice #servant-leader #change

Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#faith #heart #poverty #servanthood #faith

In Love's service, only wounded soldiers can serve. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#love #servanthood #spiritual-life #wounds #faith

Being efficient is the easy part. Suppressing one's ego completely for hours at a time is really hard. ↗

— Colin Clark

#faithfulness #servanthood #faith

Now you tell me, when a father goes ahead and washes diapers or performs some other mean task for his child, and someone ridicules him as an effeminate fool, though that father is acting in the spirit just described and in Christian faith, my dear fellow you tell me, which of the two is most keenly ridiculing the other? God, with all his angels and creatures, is smiling, not because that father is washing diapers, but because he is doing so in Christian faith. Those who sneer at him and see only the task but not the faith are ridiculing God with all his creatures, as the biggest fool on earth. Indeed, they are only ridiculing themselves; with all their cleverness they are nothing but devil’s fools. ↗

— Martin Luther

#servant-leader #faith

No truth is more pervasive in Scripture and Christian tradition than this one—that real freedom is found in obedience and servanthood. And yet no truth is more incongruent with modern culture. Here we stand before a stark either-or: the gospel message of true freedom versus the culture's ideal of self-creation, autonomy, and living "my way. ↗

— Roger Olson

#servanthood #freedom

I am a slave to your love. Well, more like indentured servant. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#indentured-servant #love #slave #funny