Top 1200 Servant Of God Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Well, what is God, then? God is that which watches. God is neither masculine nor feminine, although God can assume any form. God is that eternal reality that is in everything.

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.

I have been a civil servant and a politician for over 30 years.

Power is God's hand or arm, omniscience is God's eye, mercy is God's delight, eternity is God's duration, but holiness is God's beauty!

The atheist does not say 'there is no God,' but he says 'I know not what you mean by God; I am without idea of God'; the word 'God' is to me a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation. ... The Bible God I deny; the Christian God I disbelieve in; but I am not rash enough to say there is no God as long as you tell me you are unprepared to define God to me.

I had always been told cooking was a servant's job.

Ancient art was the tyrant of Egypt, the mistress of Greece and the servant of Rome.

A good servant is a real godsend, but truly this is a rare bird in the land.

God hath given to mankind a common library, His creatures; to every man a proper book, himself being an abridgment of all others. If thou read with understanding, it will make thee a great master of philosophy, and a true servant of the divine Author: if thou but barely read, it will make thee thine own wise man and the Author's fool.

He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master

Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.

Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.

The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass.

No one will ever be the servant of the Son without serving the Mother.

Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective.

Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them.

To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God.

It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.

Self-confidence means thinking all the time, "God is in me... God is doing every­thing . . . without God I cannot be . . . all this is God . . . I only want to think of God."

The Lord gave the wonderful promise of the free use of His name with the Father in conjunction with doing His works. The disciple who lives only for Jesus' work and kingdom, for His will and honor, will be given the power to appropriate the promise. Anyone grasping the promise only when he wants something very special for himself will be disappointed, because he is making Jesus the servant of his own comfort. But whoever wants to pray the effective prayer of faith because he needs it for the work of the Master will learn it, because he has made himself the servant of his Lord's interests.

I promise not to let you down. I will be your servant with all humility and gratitude.

I devoted myself to the task of welfare of my countrymen - not as a ruler but as a servant.

Public Servant: Persons chosen by the people to distribute the graft.

I expect, if I am faithful with yourselves, that I shall see the time with yourselves that we shall know how to prepare to organize an earth like this - know how to people that earth, how to redeem it, how to sanctify it, and how to glorify it, with those who live upon it who will hearken to our counsels. The Father and the Son have attained to this point already; I am on the way and so are you, and every faithful servant of God.

The world is God's workshop; the raw materials are His; the ideals and patterns are His; our hands are "the members of Christ," our reward His recognition. Blacksmith or banker, draughtsman or doctor, painter or preacher, servant or statesman, must work as unto the Lord, not merely making a living, but devoting a life. This makes life sacramental, turning its water into wine. This is twice blessed, blessing both the worker and the work.

You know that he who would be the greatest among you must become the servant of all.

Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.

All who have lived according to God still live unto God, though they have departed this life. For this reason, God is called the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, since He is the God, not of the dead, but of the living

The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution.

A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

We are creating a culture where content creators are a new servant class, and paid as such.

God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.

I will treat everyone equally and be a servant of the Egyptian people.

The good gardener knows with absolute certainty that if he does his part, if he gives the labour, the love, and every aid that his knowledge of his craft, experience of the conditions of his place, and exercise of his personal wit can work together to suggest, that so surely will God give the increase. Then with the honestly-earned success comes the consciousness of encouragement to renewed effort, and, as it were, an echo of the gracious words, 'Well done my good and faithful servant'.

I'll pit my God against your god any day, I say to the Calvinists. It's not their god I'm praying to.... The God I'm praying to is neither male nor female. My God is the one who exists apart from all of men's agendas, the God who takes you away when there is no possible place you can go.

A Christian should know that God is a Creator, that God is an entity that is all-powerful and all knowledgeable, God is everywhere and God is an entity filled with grace, love, compassion and forgiveness, that Jesus is the son of God and Jesus came on earth to explain to people in a very revolutionary way the nature of God, that God was not a stern judge who was keeping track of 600 or so rules and regulations that you had to keep in order to be acceptable to God.

The intellect is good but until it has become the servant of the heart, it is of little avail.

Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy.

The leader is the servant who removes the obstacles that prevent people from doing their jobs.

You must go on to remind yourself of God - who God is, and what God is, and what God has done, and what God has pledged Himself to do.

Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant.

A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master.

Government is at best a petulant servant and at worst a tyrannical master.

Marty Russo was too good a golfer to be a servant of the people.

But the God I don't believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He's not the mean and stupid God you make him out to be.

In all my life and in the future, I will always be a faithful and loyal servant to all of my compatriots.

I stay in France. Better to be the queen of a village than a servant in a kingdom.

It's not just in politics that you can be a servant of the people, you can do it in so many other ways.

A woman fit to be a man's wife is too good to be his servant.

In order to become the master, a ruler must profess to be a servant of the people.

Intellectually I touched God many times as truth and emotionally I touched God as love. I touched God as goodness. I touched God as kindness. It came to me that God is a creative force, a motivating power, an over-all intelligence, an ever-present, all pervading spirit - which binds everything in the universe together and gives life to everything. That brought God close. I could not be where God is not. You are within God. God is within you.

In mathematics our role is more that of servant than master.

A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon - it won't work and you can't fire it.

Nevertheless if any skillful Servant of Nature shall bring force to bear on matter, and shall vex it and drive it to extremities as if with the purpose of reducing it to nothing, then will matter (since annihilation or true destruction is not possible except by the omnipotence of God) finding itself in these straits, turn and transform itself into strange shapes, passing from one change to another till it has gone through the whole circle and finished the period.

The individual who is the servant of technique must be completely unconscious of himself.

The markets make a good servant but a bad master, and a worse religion.

It is a very difficult job, being the servant of two masters.

The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.