Being a leader is not about finding ways to get others to serve you, but knowing how to serve your followers.

What is a spouse for? Not to be your personal servant, certainly!

Professor [John] Tyndall once said the finest inspiration he ever received was from an old man who could scarcely read. This man acted as his servant. Each morning the old man would knock on the...

Then you shouldn’t pay people to do things for you. End of story.

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

God is a strange and mysterious master, and I no doubt am a strange and mysterious servant, but from this day forward I am His. I am forever changed, by my own choice, and I...

The more you offer yourself to make life better for someone, the more you empty yourself of the load of destiny you carry into the world. Serve till you empty all.

Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to seek them out for the sake of money, company, love, glory or curiosity, none of which can...

[…] dropped his master’s head upon the floor with a pretty loud crash, and then, without an effort to lift it up, gazed upon the bystanders, as if he had done something rather clever than...

‎The only way Jesus can be our King is if we allow Him to be our Servant

The question is not “can you wear your father’s shoes?”. The question is “can you walk in your father’s shoes?”. It is one thing having a mentor and it is another thing to become like...

Whenever you get opportunity to serve, serve with all your heart.

Different languages, the same thoughts; servant to thoughts and their masters.

‎If we do not know the King that comes to your bedroom for the sole purpose of taking out your trash, then you have yet to know Jesus as the Servant of All.

Words are like flames of fire that can devour when its your master and give life when its your servant

Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us.

Therefore let every soul be in subjection to the higher powers’ (Rom 13.1). The Christian must not be drawn to the bearers of high office; his calling is to stay below. The higher power are...

We have all been called to be foot-washers”. ~R. Alan Woods [2006]

Power is meant to be shared with the goal of empowering others. Hoarded power weakens others and exalts oneself. Power, when grounded in biblical values, serves others by liberating them. It acknowledges that people bear...

Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you’re entertaining people.

But as I say, if you look to the state of their souls you’ll find the situation nowhere near as grave as polls suggest. There’s more to being a servant of The Adversary than signing...

I am doing the servant job in order for you to become the owners of Heaven

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

I’m an economist. I’m not a political servant.

It often seems as though the silent, humble servant is secretly wiser and more discerning than the haughty master; yet through dutiful (and sometimes insecure) surrender he continues to serve and carry out petty orders...

Without wisdom man’s position does not differ in any way from that of a servant.

That’s what you got for being a servant of no ambition: a shrunken life, hung up like a gibbet as a warning to others.

The more you manifest a servant’s heart in all you do, the more of an impact you’ll have on people’s lives.

Ronald Reagan, whatever his pros and cons were, was a public servant in the end.

The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.

Harmony is produced in ministry when everyone seeks to be a servant.

Bettering the lives of others is the role of a person with a servant’s heart.

Obedience is the virtue that determines whether a person is either a servant or a rebel. Life of integrity is built on obedience of God’s statutes and nothing else.

To Stanley Ager, the gift of human “service” was no one-way loyalty. He clearly gave his all to the families he served but, though he was almost too polite to state this, his expectation of...

Seek to be served, and you become a servant. Seek to serve others, and you become a master.

If you are truly a servant of God, then you are to serve him as a master.

He who cannot serve cannot lead. It is by being a servant that you recognize that followers also have needs. True leaders are service oriented!

Speaking of Newton but also commenting more broadly on education and the Enlightenment: “I have seen a professor of mathematics only because he was great in his vocation, buried like a king who had done...

What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?

Heal the past and you’ll heal the present.” Kharis Macey

A bold slave is more powerful than a timid king

And after that until the end, there was no relief from being a girl with chores that she wasn’t being paid for, a girl with no new sandals and a friend who wasn’t a friend...

8 April 1891The obscenity of nostrils and mouths; the ignominious cupidity of smiles and women encountered in the street; the shifty baseness on every side, as of hyenas and wild beasts ready to bite: tradesmen...