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My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.

Fight World Place Now

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

God Never Human Being Desire

I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen, the civil servants, the theatres, Moore Street and also, what occupies so large a place in Dublin's life, the literary and artistic.

Patrick Kavanagh

Life Simple City Way

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

Abraham Lincoln

People Own Decisions Reverse

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

Love Knowledge Great Way

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Theodore Roosevelt

Dreams Time You Live

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.

Love Husband Nobody Going

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men Purpose Person Things

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

Law Rest Free Judges

'God' is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and 'Deity' is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.

God Respect Soul World

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God's angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.

God Enemies Angels Potential

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

Maria Montessori

Work Wait Teachers Help

The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine per cent were field hands and servants of the lowest class.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Hands Naked Class Ignorant

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

Good Water Fire Bad

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

Hunter S. Thompson

Morning Help Pants He

I believe that those of us who are the producers and purveyors of television, I believe that we are the servants of this nation.

Believe Nation Television I Believe

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

Men Universe True Own

My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much so, that he never could be persuaded to keep slaves, for he pitied them so much: and a slave belonging to one of his brothers being once in his house, was treated by him with as much tenderness as his own children.

Saint Teresa of Avila

Man Father Children Great

Our problem in the 2015 general election was that for all the good stuff that was in the Labour manifesto, we were still going to be freezing public sector wages, cutting council expenditure, laying off civil servants. We were offering 'austerity light' instead of a real alternative.

Good Light Election Problem

It is important that politicians defend their ability to act without fear or favour, and it is in the public interest that they hold ministers and public servants to account.

Fear Important Politicians Ability

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

Miguel de Cervantes

Good Great Over Most

The Almighty, if necessary, may have to shake the nations to humble them and cause them to listen to the servants of the living God. Whatever is needed will come to pass.

Gordon B. Hinckley

God Humble Will Living

The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.

Men World Looking Consequences

Ministers should not pray so loud, and long, as to exhaust the strength. It is not necessary to weary the throat and lungs in prayer. God's ear is ever open to hear the heart-felt petitions of his humble servants, and he does not require them to wear out the organs of speech in addressing him.

Strength God Prayer Humble

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

Eyes Light God Walk

The gift of the Holy Ghost, which is the right to receive the Holy Ghost as a constant companion, is obtained only upon condition of faith in Christ, repentance, baptism by immersion, and the laying on of hands by authorized servants endowed with the Melchizedek Priesthood.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Faith Gift Hands Right

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