Quotes about Servanthood
There are no servants in God's family, only sons and daughters, fully adopted through God's gift of grace. Redemption is through faith alone, never by works.
— Darlene Zschech
No man is safe above but he that will gladly be beneath.
— Thomas a Kempis
God does not call men to make Jesus Lord (as though they had such power), but to live in absolute submission to the Lord He has made.
— Paul Washer
We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work and accordingly labour faithfully for him not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can.
— David Brainerd
It is sweet to be nothing and less than nothing that Christ may be all in all.
— David Brainerd
What man, if he were God, would humble himself to lie in the feedbox of a donkey or to hang upon a cross?
— Martin Luther
Humility is the ultimate standard of greatness in the Kingdom of God.
— Mike Bickle
Greatness in the kingdom of God is measured in terms of obedience.
— John Stott
God told me once, 'I want you to come up to the lowest place.'
— Heidi Baker
Lord God...use me as Your instrument -- but do not forsake me, for if ever I should be on my own, I would easily wreck it all.
— Martin Luther
God does everything through people who understand they're nothing. And God does nothing through those who think they're everything.
— Tullian Tchividjian
You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!
— Catherine of Siena