Great Throughts Treasury

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George Washington Goethals

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

Ability | Faith | Justice | Service | Wisdom | Leader |

Benjamin Franklin

Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought as easier service and therefore more generally chosen.

God | Good | Man | Service | Thought | Wisdom | God | Thought |

Samson Raphael Hirsch

Our children should be fitted for bread-winning, but they should be taught that bread-winning is only a means, not the purpose in life, and that the value of life is to be judged... by the good and the service to God with which it is filled.

Children | God | Good | Life | Life | Means | Purpose | Purpose | Service | Wisdom | God | Value |

Firuz Kazemzadeh

The problem of our purpose is a religious problem... Our purpose is derived from faith and is imposed onto reality by our own souls. But faith and religious truth themselves are not absolute. They are relative. Thus the answers one gives to questions about the purpose of life must necessarily be relative to a time, a place, a tradition... To know and worship God means, in Baha’ullah’s words, to promote the unity of the human race and to foster the spirit of love and fellowship amongst men”... Someday there will be a global society in which humanity will realize its spiritual and moral potential... The destiny of mankind, actually, is the ultimate creation of the world civilization. It is only in the service of such a cause that I find the meaning and purpose of life.

Absolute | Cause | Civilization | Destiny | Faith | Global | God | Human race | Humanity | Life | Life | Love | Mankind | Meaning | Means | Men | Purpose | Purpose | Race | Reality | Service | Society | Spirit | Time | Tradition | Truth | Unity | Will | Wisdom | Words | World | Worship | Society | God |

Thomas Paine

These are the times that try men's souls. The Summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country, but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheaply we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its things; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial article as freedom should not be highly rated.

Consolation | Esteem | Freedom | Heaven | Hell | Love | Man | Men | Price | Service | Tyranny | Will | Wisdom | Woman |

Friedrich Schiller, fully Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

Age | Service | Wisdom |

Arthur Frederick Sheldon

The science of business is the science of service and he profits most who serves best.

Business | Science | Service | Wisdom | Business |

Lillian Smith, fully Lillian Eugenia Smith

Like sex, knowledge is good if used in the service of life and love.

Good | Knowledge | Life | Life | Love | Service | Wisdom |

Yehiel Mikhal of Zlotchov, also Yechiel Michel M'Drohobitch Maggid of Zlotchov

Pray for your enemies that everything may be well with them. More than all others prayers, this is truly the service of God.

God | Service | Wisdom |

César Chávez, fully César Estrada Chávez

The end of all education should surely be service to others. We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about the progress and prosperity of our community. Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others for their sake and for our own.

Achievement | Education | Enough | Progress | Prosperity | Service |

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Truth needs not the service of passion; yea, nothing so dis-serves it, as passion when set to serve it. The Spirit of Truth is the Spirit of Meekness.

Meekness | Nothing | Passion | Service | Spirit | Truth |