Quotes About Servants

#1. This free use of the line for flirtation purposes has grown to an alarming extent," he wrote, "and if it is to go on somebody must pay for it." The Bell companies tried to discourage frivolous telephony, particularly by women and servants.

James Gleick

#2. Ah! Paul, you could not go when you wished. Caesar must convoy you. Your Master would have you go to Rome under the protection of the eagles of your empire. God has servants everywhere: he can make Satan himself provide the body-guard for his faithful apostle's journey.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#3. Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.

Roger L'Estrange

#4. Men are in the habit, when the truth is exhibited by the servants of God, of saying, All is mystery; they have spoken in parables, and, therefore, are not to be understood. It is true they have eyes to see, and see not, but none are so blind as those who will not see.

Sam Smith

#5. When posh boys get into trouble they sack the servants.

Dennis Skinner

#6. Poisoning us," Bren said, faced with what was a truly attractive service, and with the servants still in the room, "is a process of inconveniently many steps, though conservative of the furniture. One believes we may just have breakfast this morning, nadiin-ji.

C.J. Cherryh

#7. There are many who are lip servants but not life servants.

William Jenkyn

#8. And a true God is not One with the most servants, but One who serves the most, thereby making Gods of all others. For this is both the goal and the glory of God: that His subjects shall be no more, and that all shall know God not as the unattainable, but as the unavoidable.

Neale Donald Walsch

#9. More than half the colonists who came to the North American shores in the colonial period came as servants.

Howard Zinn

#10. It is only in the morning that one should marry, read unfavourable reviews, make one's will, beat one's servants, and so forth.

E.T.A. Hoffmann

#11. There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne.

Jeffrey Bernard

#12. Demons," drawled the blond boy, tracing the word on the air with his finger. "Religiously defined as hell's denizens, the servants of Satan, but understood here, for the purposes of the Clave, to be any malevolent spirit whose origin is outside our own home dimension -

Cassandra Clare

#13. Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of dominion not only gladdens the eye of the master who rears and protects it, but even its servants are uplifted by the thought that they are members of a whole, which rises high above the life and strength of single generations.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt

#14. The Lord looks on his servants with pity and not with blame. In God's sight we do not fall; in our sight, we do not stand. Both of these are true, but the deeper insight belongs to God.

Julian Of Norwich

#15. After all we are merely the servants of the public, in spite of our M.D.'s and our hospital appointments.

Henry Howarth Bashford

#16. We know the Lord makes His servants bold. The young boy Joseph who saw God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, in a grove of trees was transformed into a spiritual giant.

Henry B. Eyring

#17. Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.

Henry David Thoreau

#18. He wouldn't let his servants change the sheets on his bed because they still smelled like her, because he went to sleep dreaming that she was still lying beside him.

Sarah J. Maas

#19. Most of all, be honest with yourself and make sure those in political office, our so called public servants, are being honest, holding them accountable for their actions!

David Pratt

#20. The servants of Jesus Christ are His representatives on this earth.

Sunday Adelaja

#21. We are in a movement that must not fade away. The bosses are you. The people in Washington are public servants, and they serve you.

Jeff Sessions

#22. I'd not sign away my liberty to any man,' Alice answered with spirit.'Wives have no more rights than servants.But once we women have the vote,we'll change all that.

Janet MacLeod Trotter

#23. Writers cannot let themselves be servants of the official mythology. They have to, whatever the cost, say what truth they have to say.

Tobias Wolff

#24. I can hardly thinke there was any scared into Heaven; they go the surest way to Heaven who would serve God without a Hell; other Mercenaries, that crouch unto Him in feare of Hell, though they terme themselves servants, are indeed but the slaves of the Almighty.

Thomas Browne

#25. Those who choose to be servants know the most about being free.

Janette Oke

#26. The closest she had been to them was certain summer evenings when they had gone for picnics in the magravine's ice-barge -- simple family affairs, just Freya and Mama and Papa and about seventy servants and courtiers

Philip Reeve

#27. Some men seem remarkable to the world in whom neither their wives nor their valets saw anything extraordinary. Few men have been admired by their servants.

Michel De Montaigne

#28. All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim.

Bryan Procter

#29. My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.

George Santayana

#30. Memory relates to ethics as well as to spirituality (the distinction between ethics and spirituality is a Western one and does more harm than good). Memory places obligations upon you. The Israelites were to remember their experience of servitude in Egypt, and treat their servants accordingly.

John E. Goldingay

#31. In the 18th century, if women wanted to travel and they dressed as a man, people would not look twice. Your clothes said everything. Also there were masters and servants swapping clothes. You could be anything, your clothes told everything!

Vivienne Westwood

#32. Servitude, in many cases, is not forced upon by the masters, but a temptation of the servants.

Indro Montanelli

#33. It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.

Aesop

#34. The servants of Mary are as sure of getting to Paradise as though they were already there. Who are they who are saved and who reign in Heaven? Surely those for whom the Queen of Mercy intercedes ... The clients of Mary will necessarily be saved.

Alphonsus Liguori

#35. Our Heavenly Father continues to communicate with us through revelation. These revelations are communications of divine directions. They may come to us personally or through the voice of the Lord's chosen servants, the prophets, seers, and revelators.

L. Lionel Kendrick

#36. There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharoah - get first all the people's money, then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants forever.

Benjamin Franklin

#37. I put away my brushes; resolutely crucified my divine gift, and while it hung writhing on the cross, spent my best years and powers cooking cabbage. "A servant of servants shall she be," must have been spoken of women, not Negroes.

Jane Swisshelm

#38. The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#39. As a consequence of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the officer corps of the old army became part of this class, as did that part of the younger generation who, in the old Germany, would have become officers or civil servants.

Gustav Stresemann

#40. We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.

Maria Montessori

#41. Free white workers were better off than slaves or servants, but they still resented unfair treatment by the wealthier classes.

Howard Zinn

#42. Ladies and Gentlemen, we have no servants; We must see to things ourselves. We can't all perch like eagles, therefore, I beg you to be more careful.

Boris Pilnyak

#43. It is common for those that have called themselves His servants, after awhile to give Him the slip, and return again to me.

John Bunyan

#44. I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.

James Cameron

#45. The distant women bowed themselves; Nordic women who lived with their eyes looking at servants, as they were waiting; glaring in an intense white aspect, because they were athletic; because they had haircuts.

Jarrett McCall

#46. There is needed, no doubt, a body of servants (ministerium) of the invisible church, but not officials (officiales), in other words, teachers but not dignitaries, because in the rational religion of every individual there does not yet exist a church as a universal union (omnitudo collectiva).

Immanuel Kant

#47. [It] is impossible for us to establish a living vital connection with the masses unless we will work for them, through them and in their midst, not as their patrons but as their servants.

Mahatma Gandhi

#48. His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.

James M. Barrie

#49. The Bible teaches us that God does not cause pain, but that He uses pain and evil to advance His cause and shape His servants.

Max Lucado

#50. When you knock, ask to see God - none of the servants.

Henry David Thoreau

#51. This is the world of pretend. We are artists and we are servants of the stage, and I take both jobs very seriously. As artists, we work as a collective - all for one and one for all. As servants, we work for thos who venture out alone, otherwise known as performers.

Rebecca Stead

#52. We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to every human being for God's sake.

Francis Of Assisi

#53. I come from a family of servants. My father's father was a servant, and my father's father's father was a slave.

Lee Daniels

#54. Every citizen owes to the country a vigilant watch and close scrutiny of its public servants and a fair and reasonable estimate of their fidelity.

Grover Cleveland

#55. The Lord will give His righteous servants opportunities to be bold as lions when they speak in His name and as witnesses in His priesthood.

Henry B. Eyring

#56. Every great house is full of haughty servants.

Juvenal

#57. Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

Hunter S. Thompson

#58. The only people I really hate are servants. They're not really human beings at all.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#59. 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

#60. Americans have learned to trust free markets. Republican or Democrat, we believe the unimpeded exchange of goods and services will yield better solutions than five-year plans set by even the most well-meaning public servants.

John Katzman

#61. He's t-terrifying," she heard Evie breathe, and Lillian glanced at her with sudden amusement.
"He's just a man, dear. I'm sure he orders his servants to help him put his trousers on one leg at a time, like everyone else."

-Evie & Lillian

Lisa Kleypas

#62. But any religion would be found lacking if judged solely by its human servants.

Joan Wolf

#63. God requires his servants to walk in the light, and not cover their eyes that they may not discern the working of Satan.

Ellen G. White

#64. Truth is no man's slave - but lies - what magnificent servants they make ...

Phyllis Bottome

#65. We are all servants of some sort, and if the fact that we are faithful can be truthfully inscribed on our tombstones, nothing more need be added.

L.M. Montgomery

#66. An assortment of soldiers and servants hurried about, finishing their duties for the day, or beginning their duties for the night, or possibly just looking busy to avoid being given additional duties.

Jonathan Renshaw

#67. I don't have maids or servants, and my husband and I love waking up early and going to the 24-hour supermarket when there is nobody else there.

Dolly Parton

#68. Let us become servants in order to be leaders.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#69. The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.

Roger L'Estrange

#70. It was in the defects that they [servants] invariably acquired that I learned of my own natural, invariable defects, and their character presented me with a sort of negative proof of my own.

Marcel Proust

#71. Today's media zoom their cameras in on and dedicate endless column inches to wars, disasters, famines, scandals, tragedies, and every form of evil. Things beautiful, wholesome and good, however, are less photogenic, so the works of God and His servants are rarely noticed.

Jason Mandryk

#72. The spirit of rebellion must live in Serbia. Only then will we know we are alive and not servants of a dictator.

Zoran Djindjic

#73. People are quite clear in viewing nuns as the servants and the teachers and the supporters of the poor. You contrast that with the fact that the Vatican did virtually nothing about long-known pedophiles, and it's just too much.

Gloria Steinem

#74. If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.

Adam Clarke

#75. Servants, serve well your masters. For this is right. And in so doing, you do it as to the Lord.

Janette Oke

#76. As servants of God, we must learn to make room for Him - to give God "elbow room." We plan and figure and predict that this or that will happen, but we forget to make room for God to come in as He chooses.

Oswald Chambers

#77. Ridiculous to think what indignities I would suffer in silence, if I knew that I was to be rewarded with an oversize bucket of hot water, the magus said as he settled into the bath the servants had filled for him.

Megan Whalen Turner

#78. Do not suffer any man to baptize or minister unto you, unless God has spoken unto him by the voice of his servants, and authorized him to minister in his name.

Orson Pratt

#79. Tell me, before you call us servants, who served whom? And who, I wonder, in your generations, will immortalize you?

Peter Shaffer

#80. It is a novel kind of supremacy, the best that life can offer, to have as servants by skill those who by nature are our masters.

Baltasar Gracian

#81. The angels minister to God's servants in time of hardship and danger.

Billy Graham

#82. Servants were the main topic of conversation in St. Mary Mead, so it was not difficult to lead the conversation in that direction.

Agatha Christie

#83. Even if Chinese own the entire world; still they will be servants.

M.F. Moonzajer

#84. The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand ... We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.

Jean Cocteau

#85. William pouts irritably. Socialism is not the same thing as letting one's servants muddle towards anarchy. But never mind, never mind: on a day like today, it's not worth worrying over. Soon the servant question, at least in William Rackham's household, will be resolved beyond any ambiguity.

Michel Faber

#86. It was ever and always the plain offer of God to all the peoples of the earth through his elected servants of the promise-plan.

Walter C. Kaiser Jr.

#87. To become God's mighty servants, we must decide whether we will base our life on His priorities or the world's. The two are incompatible.

Charles Stanley

#88. The Rooster Coop was doing its work. Servants have to keep other servants from becoming innovators, experimenters or entrepreneurs. The coop is guarded from the inside.

Aravind Adiga

#89. every one" was out of town perhaps the servants, in the extravagance of their leisure, were profaning the tables. The heat was insufferable

Henry James

#90. Laws decide wich forms of oppression are allowed, Lord. And because of that, those laws are servants to those in power, for whom oppression is given as a right over those who have little or no power.

Steven Erikson

#91. The poor yield to the rich, the common people to the upper ten, the servants to their masters, the ignorant to the scholars; but there is nobody who does not imagine that he is really better than others.

John Calvin

#92. The Bolsheviks killed their own most loyal supporters at Kronstadt in 1921, because they failed to understand that the revolution no longer required revolutionaries, but obedient servants.

Peter Hitchens

#93. Like traditional upper class families, there are nannies and servants, and the children, you know, come in to say good-night before they go to bed. There's very little private time with the children in the early years. Actually, there's much more private time with the children in the 20s.

Blanche Wiesen Cook

#94. And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto

Anonymous

#95. Yama servants known as Shravan and Shravani.

Jaipal Singh Datta

#96. What is the reason that women servants ... have much lower wages than men servants ... when in fact our female house servants work much harder than the male?

Samuel Johnson

#97. Sing the songs of joy to the Lord, serve the Name of the Lord, and become the servant of His servants.

Guru Nanak

#98. Observe the great Advantage and Benefit, the Privilege and Prerogative that Christ's Servants have beyond all others; Christ writes his Letters to them; there is not a word written to Kings and great Men; but it is to shew his Servants things to come to pass

James Durham

#99. If you are to stay in the good graces of the powerful, you had best, however unobtrusively, please the servants of the powerful.

Samuel R. Delany

#100. Few men are admired by their servants.

Michel De Montaigne