#servant

The Viennese wash everything. Where else in the world does the government hire public servants to wash public telephone booths and the glass over traffic lights? Every time I see someone doing these things, I smile like a child. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#child #does #doing #else #every

I probably felt more resentment for what I personally was to suffer than for the wrong they were doing to anyone and everyone. But at that time I was determined not to put up with badly behaved people more out of my own interest than because I wanted them to become good people. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#education #leadership #servanthood #teaching #education

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

The true character of ministry is a servants heart. ↗

— Harold Warner

#heart #ministry #servants #true #true character

Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God. ↗

— Rick Warren

#faithful #god #never #retire #servants

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#every #fellow #observant #outskirts #points

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#men #person #purpose #servants #things

When actors are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor. ↗

— Cedric Hardwicke

#audience #dramatist #fine #not talking #reveals