Quotes About Servanthood

#1. Older forms of indentured servanthood and the bond-service of biblical times had often been harsh, but Christian abolitionists concluded that race-based, life-long chattel slavery, established through kidnapping, could not be squared with biblical teaching either in the Old Testament or the New.

Timothy Keller

#2. Servanthood does not nullify leadership; it defines it. Jesus does not cease to be the Lion of Judah when He becomes the lamblike servant of the church.

John Piper

#3. only secure leaders exhibit servanthood.

John C. Maxwell

#4. Christmas was about understanding that servanthood would win the hearts of men for eternity, where raw power might win them only for a moment, if at all.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#5. The church must not teach the submission of wives apart from the sacrificial love and servanthood required of husbands.

Gary L. Thomas

#6. Royalty is my identity. Servanthood is my assignment. Intimacy with God is my life source.

Bill Johnson

#7. Radical servanthood challenges us, while attempting persistently to overcome poverty, hunger, illness, and any other form of human misery, to reveal the gentle presence of our compassionate God in the midst of our broken world.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#8. The price of greatness is servanthood, sacrifice and humility

Linda Davis

#9. God Most High has said, "Is the reward of virtue aught save virtue?" ... Know, O man, that the covenant of servanthood is incumbent upon you, and that the covenant of Lordship is incumbent upon His magnanimity, as He Most High has said, " ... and fulfill your covenant, I shall fulfill My covenant."

Ibn Ata Allah

#10. Leadership without servanthood is like an ocean without water.

Farshad Asl

#11. Faith isn't a position of favor
It is a posture of servanthood

Suzanne Eller

#12. Above all, leadership is a position of servanthood.

Max De Pree

#13. True leadership is servanthood. Put the interests of others at the center of your decisions.

Dave Ramsey

#14. Tied to the value of the person is the principle of servanthood. We value what we freely serve.

Douglas Groothuis

#15. The disciples of Jesus were not to practice politics through the use of coercive power, but through servanthood.

Tim Otto

#16. Servant Leadership is an oxymoron. All true Leadership is servanthood.

Todd Stocker

#17. The covenant of your servanthood is that you be a servant to God, not to someone else, and that you know that everything except God is a servant to God, as He Most High has said, "There is none in the heaven and the earth but cometh unto the Compassionate as a servant."

Ibn Ata Allah

#18. The first step to leadership is servanthood.

John C. Maxwell

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

Brennan Manning

#20. There is but one just use of power, and it is to serve people.

George H. W. Bush

#21. A leader takes people where they would never go on their own.

Hans Finzel

#22. We have all been called to be foot-washers".

~R. Alan Woods [2006]

R. Alan Woods

#23. The author sees Luke's loyalty to the apostle Paul "depicted architecturally in the great church at Rome known as St. Paul Outside the Walls. There, a statue of Luke holding a writing stylus commemorates not only his work as a Gospel author but his faithfulness to Paul.

Bryan Litfin

#24. Tasks don't have to be high-impact to be worthy of high effort. Most things we do in any given day are relatively low impact. The cumulative impact of thousands of low-impact test is huge. These tasks can be transposed into worship.

John Piper

#25. The best and only way to minister supernaturally is by being yoked to Jesus, just making yourself into His servant, walking in His ways and imitating Him. Allow Him to change you!

Sunday Adelaja

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

Brennan Manning

#27. Like a lot of other bashful introverts, I discovered that I like teaching a lot because it's like acting. When I stepped into the classroom, I stepped into a role, one that allowed me to forget myself.

Maureen Corrigan

#28. Alex had cooked, and coaxed, and helped Mark form borders around the shapeless days. Alex had given meaning to the word "servant".

Davis Bunn

#29. The most formidable way to lead is to serve. And while the perplexing oxymoron of such a grinding statement absolutely cripples us, it birthed a Savior.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

Colin Clark

#31. Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.

Augustine Of Hippo

#32. 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

#33. Power is to be used in the service of others and only secondarily, if at all, for the benefit of oneself.

Duane Elmer

#34. A faithful servant may be wiser than the master, and yet retain the true spirit and posture of the servant. The humble man looks upon every, the feeblest and unworthiest, child of God, and honors him and prefers him in honor as the son of a King.

Andrew Murray

#35. Serving your enemies is the fastest way to learn to love them.

Will Davis Jr.