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Actually, [Wax] said, we came here because we needed someplace safe to think for a few hours." Ranette: "Your mansion isn't safe?" Wax: "My butler failed to poison me, then tried to shoot me, then set off an explosive in my study" Ranette: "Huh.... You need to screen these people better, Wax. ↗


— Brandon Sanderson


#humor #safety #screening #servants #humor

He wanted most of all the people of his own mind, people with whom he could really talk, people he could harangue and scold by the hour, servants, you see, to his fancy. Among these people he was always self-confident and bold. They might talk, to be sure, and even have opinions of their own, but always he talked last and best. He was like a writer busy among the figures of his brain, a kind of tiny blue-eyed king he was, in a six-dollar room facing Washington Square in the city of New York. ↗


— Sherwood Anderson


#kingdom #servants #business

The chief means of resisting manipulation is humility – knowing who we really are and facing it. You can only serve by love. You can only love by choice. True love cannot be the result of decree, force or manipulation. Jesus always kept his strength to make loving choices. He calls us to make loving choices necessary to be the servant of all." "Humility permits me to own my feelings – and to admit them. Now I'm free to say, ‘I'm angry’. I'm free to admit what I am reacting to. I am free to ask if anger is what the person wanted to produce in me, and to ask for help in changing if my reaction is inappropriate. ↗


— Gayle D. Erwin


#manipulation #servanthood #anger

Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music. ↗


— Mary Elizabeth Braddon


#observant #inspirational

I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty. ↗


— Alben W. Barkley


#i #lord #mighty #rather #seats

I have rightfully no other business each day but to do God's work as a servant, constantly regarding His pleasure. May I have grace to live above every human motive, simply with God and to God. ↗


— Henry Martyn


#servant-of-god #business

So with that will prompt and prepared to serve all those whom I perceive to be servants of my Lord, I will speak of three things with simplicity and love as if I were speaking to my own soul. ↗


— Ignatius Loyola


#lord #love #my own #own #perceive

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


— Jef Raskin


#now #oppressing #our #right #servant

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






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