#servant

Reason is the servant of instinct. ↗

— Clarence Day

#reason #servant

Some people have a warped idea of living the Christian life. Seeing talented, successful Christians, they attempt to imitate them. For them, the grass on the other side of the fence is always greener. But when they discover that their own gifts are different or their contributions are more modest (or even invisible), they collapse in discouragement and overlook genuine opportunities that are open to them. They have forgotten that they are here to serve Christ, not themselves. ↗

— Billy Graham

#servant-heart #service #spiritual-gifts #faith

No, we are not the master of the state, said King. We are not the servant of the state. We are the conscience of the state. The churches or the religious community should be, I think, the conscience of the state. We're not just service providers. ↗

— Jim Wallis

#community #conscience #i #i think #just

Civil servants take forever to do anything. ↗

— Joseph Wambaugh

#civil #civil servants #forever #servants #take

I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master. ↗

— Brigham Young

#i #instead #law #live #make

Your hands, your eyes, your voice, your thoughts are your servants. ↗

— Loretta Young

#hands #servants #thoughts #voice #your

Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear. ↗

— Peter Stuyvesant

#been #continue #disrespectful #fail #i

Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God. ↗

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

#earth #failure #forgets #god #his

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

#civil servants #diplomats #drawn #foreign #get

My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almost entirely in what was then called Administrative Labour, dealing with employment and unemployment issues. ↗

— John Hume

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