Quotes About Washing Feet

#1. Does God ask us to do what is beneath us? This question will never trouble us again if we consider the Lord of heaven taking a towel and washing feet.

Elisabeth Elliot

#2. Christian patriots spend more time washing feet than waving flags.

Charles W. Colson

#3. I'm ready to stop waging war and start washing feet.

Rachel Held Evans

#4. The real test of a saint is not one's willingness to preach the gospel, but one's willingness to do something like washing the disciples' feet--that is, being willing to do those things that seem unimportant in human estimation but count as everything to God.

Oswald Chambers

#5. When being is divorced from doing, pious thoughts become an adequate substitute for washing dirty feet.

Brennan Manning

#6. People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying His prayer, and so on; but if anyone attempts the real imitation of Him, there are no bounds to the outcry with which the presumption of that person is condemned.

Florence Nightingale

#7. I think I have a pattern of nice and lovely and then dark and twisted.

Ryan Murphy

#8. When "doing" becomes divorced from "being", pious thoughts become a poor substitute for washing dirty feet.

Brennan Manning

#9. If your posture is that of one washing dirty feet, you are prevented from looking down on others and, instead, look up to them.

Jonah Books

#10. I take his talent and his passion with me - to the stage of the Opry, to the podium at the CMA Awards, to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, into my own living room. I am the realization of my grandfather's dream. I am a player.

Brad Paisley

#11. I'd sell my soul to the devil if he'd buy such a weakly, puny, piffling little soul, just really to live and be something besides a "thoroughly nice girl" for one short year.

Samuel Hopkins Adams

#12. Jesus washing the disciples feet is the most supreme act of humility in all of God's word.

James MacDonald

#13. Eucharisteo is giving thanks for grace. But in the breaking and giving of bread, in the washing of feet, Jesus makes it clear that eucharisteo is, yes, more: it is giving grace away.

Ann Voskamp

#14. To attract people, to win over people to that which I have realized as being true, that is called propaganda.

Joseph Goebbels

#15. The real test of the saint is not preaching the gospel, but washing disciples' feet, that is, doing the things that do not count in the actual estimate of men, but count everything in the estimate of God. Paul

Oswald Chambers

#16. Popped a handful of pills, washing them down with a bottle of water. It was Yolanda. The officers and BH team were standing not twenty feet away from her and didn't recognize her. They were laughing and joking. I need to get there, now. This isn't a joke.

Victor Methos

#17. She was always on her feet. Cooking. Washing. Ironing.

Niccolo Ammaniti

#18. Most Ohioans would be surprised to know that the same Wall Street megabanks which received bailouts from taxpayers in 2009 also receive taxpayer-funded advantages today simply because of their 'too big to fail' status.

Sherrod Brown

#19. We made love, and then she threw up.

Sarah Kane

#20. When I was at college, I worked in a department store called Brit Home Stores, which is a pretty lackluster department store, selling clothes for middle-aged women. My job was to walk the floor and find anything that was damaged, take it to the store room and log it.

Dominic Monaghan

#21. All that matters is that the wound fit the arrow

Franz Kafka

#22. There is no safe place. There is no haven. Not for us.

Leigh Bardugo

#23. My heart's so light it floats and carries me so my feet don't walk. I sing all day and I don't mind the washing, and that's how I know I'm in love. Completely smitten with My Lord the cat.

Shannon Hale

#24. We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.

Samantha Harvey

#25. Jesus was always on the front-lines washing dirty feet. Humility soon is shelved in ministry and we start thinking to much of ourselves. It is hard to effectively minister in Christ name when we look down on someone, but if we are washing their feet we look up to them giving them value and worth.

Jonah Books

#26. All of us have schnozzles ... if not in our faces, then in our character, minds or habits. When we admit our schnozzles, instead of defending them, we begin to laugh, and the world laughs with us.

Jimmy Durante