Service

“We are his,True to the death, but not to be his slaves.”

“A master is embarrassed before his servant; a servant before his master. Only in the presence of his equals is a man entirely at his ease.”

“The rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones are tyrants over them. It will not be so among you; but whoever wishes to be great among you must be your servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you must be your slave; just as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve.”

“Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”

“A servant is the true reflection of his master.”

“Servant of God, well done.”

“Master, go on, and I will follow thee,To the last gasp, with truth and loyalty.”

“I am an ass, indeed, you may prove it by my long ears. I have served him from the hour of my nativity to this instant, and have nothing at his hands for my service but blows. When I am cold, he heats me with beating.”

“Had I but serv'd my God with half the zealHave left me naked to mine enemies.”

“We cannot all be masters, nor all masters cannot be truly followed.”

“My heart is ever at your service.”

“The swallow follows not summer more willing than we your lordship.”

“You know that loveWill creep in service where it cannot go.”

“Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.”

“Understanding who you serve is always a very important problem, and it only gets harder the more people that you serve. We try to pay a lot of attention to this by a combination of very rigorous quantitative and qualitative feedback. But if you’re serving 1.2 billion people, it’s very hard.”

“If I had always served God as I have served you, Madam, I should not have a great account to render at my death.”

“And Master Kingston, this I will say—had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs.”

“When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,—no more. They eat your service like apples, and leave you out. But love them, and they feel you, and delight in you all the time.”

“Had I but written as many odes in praise of Muhammad and Ali as I have composed for King Mahmud, they would have showered a hundred blessings on me.”

“Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing?”

“Sidney Godolphin," said Charles (II), "is never in the way and never out of the way.”

“Who seeks for aidMust show how service sought can be repaid.”

“They also serve who only stand and wait.”

“They serve God well,Who serve his creatures.”

“God curse Moawiyah. If I had served God so well as I have served him, he would never have damned me to all eternity.”

“Small service is true service while it lasts: Protects the lingering dew drop from the Sun.”