{"quotes":[{"text":"The chief means of resisting manipulation is humility – knowing who we really are and facing it. You can only serve by love. You can only love by choice. True love cannot be the result of decree, force or manipulation. Jesus always kept his strength to make loving choices. He calls us to make loving choices necessary to be the servant of all.' 'Humility permits me to own my feelings – and to admit them. Now I'm free to say, ‘I'm angry’. I'm free to admit what I am reacting to. I am free to ask if anger is what the person wanted to produce in me, and to ask for help in changing if my reaction is inappropriate.","author":"Gayle D. Erwin","tags":["humility","manipulation","servanthood"],"id":38061,"author_id":"Gayle+D.+Erwin"},{"text":"There is but one just use of power, and it is to serve people.","author":"George H.W. Bush","tags":["grace","humility","servant-leadership","servanthood"],"id":63595,"author_id":"George+H.W.+Bush"},{"text":"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 the image of God and treats them in a way that will nurture the development of that image. In so doing, we honor their Creator.","author":"Duane Elmer","tags":["imagery","power","servant","servanthood","service"],"id":71094,"author_id":"Duane+Elmer"},{"text":"Identify your divine gift and use it to serve humanity.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["advice-for-daily-living","capable","destiny","fate","gifts","humanity","inspiration","lailah-gifty-akita-affirmations","leaders","lessons-learnt","mission","motivation","passion","purpose","scientist","self-help","self-motivation","servant-leader","servanthood","servitude","talents","writer"],"id":84246,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"The best and only way to minister supernaturally is by being yoked to Jesus, just making yourself into His servant, walking in His ways and imitating Him. Allow Him to change you!","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["minister","servanthood","supernatural"],"id":102269,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Headship is the divine calling of a husband to take primary responsibility for Christ-like, servant leadership, protection, and provision in the home.","author":"John Piper","tags":["family","leadership","manhood","marriage","servanthood"],"id":115240,"author_id":"John+Piper"},{"text":"Serving your enemies is the fastest way to learn to love them.","author":"Will Davis Jr.","tags":["enemies","opposition","servanthood"],"id":124742,"author_id":"Will+Davis+Jr."},{"text":"Love may challenge and love may correct but love will never shame. Love may call us out to uncomfortable places but love will never cast us aside. Love may demand but will never demean. Love will never ask us to dim our light lest we shine too brightly. Love will never ask us to be less than we were created to be.By this we know God. By this we follow Jesus. By this we serve one another.Love. Not fear.","author":"Peggy Haymes","tags":["faithfulness","fear","god","jesus","love","servant-leader","servanthood"],"id":177817,"author_id":"Peggy+Haymes"},{"text":"I probably felt more resentment for what I personally was to suffer than for the wrong they were doing to anyone and everyone. But at that time I was determined not to put up with badly behaved people more out of my own interest than because I wanted them to become good people.","author":"Augustine of Hippo","tags":["compassion","education","leadership","servanthood","teaching"],"id":210374,"author_id":"Augustine+of+Hippo"},{"text":"Tasks don't have to be high-impact to be worthy of high effort. Most things we do in any given day are relatively low impact. The cumulative impact of thousands of low-impact test is huge. These tasks can be transposed into worship.","author":"John Piper","tags":["discipleship","servanthood","work"],"id":217451,"author_id":"John+Piper"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}