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How to use the word Servant in a Sentence? Page #3

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I'm confident that I know who you are, you chose to be a Foreign Service officer, or a civil servant, or to come work here in many other capacities, and to do so because you're patriots and great Americans and because you want to be an important part of America's face to the world.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN
6 years ago

I'm trained for emergency situations and that's just exactly what it was, and I felt moved to act as well as other people on that plane, god created a servant heart in me, and I felt a calling to get up and do something.

– Andrew Needum

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Billy Graham's ministry for the gospel of Jesus Christ and Billy Graham matchless voice changed the lives of millions, Vice President Pence said. We mourn Billy Graham passing but I know with absolute certainty that today Billy Graham heard those words,' well done good and faithful servant.' Thank you Billy Graham.

– Jimmy Carter

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The most popular Greek word for 'minister' is diakonos, which means, 'a servant,' or 'one who executes the command of another.' The other Greek word used is hyperetes, which literally means, 'the under-rower,' or the subordinate who is doing the rowing of a boat. Thus, a minister works for both God and man in service. Just as Jesus was a servant to both God and man, so should all believers be.

– Henry Hon

added by Steve Simms
6 years ago

She’s been a great lieutenant governor. I would argue probably the best lieutenant governor our state has ever seen, she’s a true public servant who’s served this state in many roles.

– Mark Dayton

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Money is a great servant but a bad master

– Francis Bacon

added by dylan_m
6 years ago

I pledge to each of you and to the American people that, if confirmed, I will do all my powers permit to be a faithful servant of the Constitution and laws of our great nation.

– Neil Gorsuch

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I'm a civil servant and my wife doesn't work either!...

– Fabrice

added by anonymous
7 years ago

I am angry this morning - angry at the senseless loss of a dedicated public servant, and angry at the absolutely unacceptable level of violence in our city, we must not accept this as our norm.

– Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

It must be utterly condemned, not only was it targeted on an individual public servant, it represented a futile attack on the entire community which is determined to achieve a peaceful and reconciled society in Northern Ireland.

– Irish Foreign Minister Charlie Flanagan

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It bothers me that someone comes to hijack that cause, donald Trump's not a conservative, and he's not a steady hand for sure, and he's not a servant. It's all about him and I'm the only guy going after him. I don't feel like, that he's intimidating. He's a bully. Punch him back in the nose.

– Jeb Bush

Found on CNN
8 years ago

When you have gone through a lot like many of black folks and minorities and women have struggled with all of their lives and then along comes a public servant like Hillary Clinton, you know the real deal when you see it.

– Gerald Matthews

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We don't need the big dog on the stage, barking out stuff, insulting people, we need someone that has a proven record. That has a servant's heart.

– Jeb Bush

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I never believed Edward Snowden was a good public servant the way that Ted Cruz once said, that he had done a public service for America. Edward Snowden is a traitor.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN
8 years ago

While tonight is the end of my journey for the White House as I suspend my campaign for president, I am confident we can elect the right person, someone who will bring us together and who understands that politicians, including the president, must be the people's servant and not their master. I know the best of America is still ahead of us.

– George Pataki

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Growing into a leader who is a servant of the people is what he must do, i hope he will learn the lesson of Mayor Daley before him and use his second term to bring some of his critics into his administration.

– Sylvia Ewing

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The public does not view this as business as usual, this jury is saying that self-dealing and back-scratching is not an acceptable way for a public servant to behave.

– Susan Lerner

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

After 31 years as civil servant, 18 of which as Gaming Inspection Bureau director, I believe it's time to take a break and spend more time with my family.

– Manuel Neves

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

My energy comes from helping people have a chance to live the lives that the want. ... The kind of leadership we need is servant leadership.

– Jeb Bush

Found on CNN
8 years ago

They considered me a prostitute so I was kept in servant quarters away from the main house.

– Swaumu Ali

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Huma Abedin is widely known as one of the hardest working and most dedicated public servants over the nearly two decades she served. The IG's report is fundamentally flawed, including contradicting its own conclusion by proving that Huma worked hard even while on maternity leave, no hardworking, dedicated public servant should be subjected to irresponsible allegations based on a fundamentally flawed report and the State Department has undertaken a review of the report. Huma has been nothing but cooperative in helping the Department work through its record keeping issues, and she will continue to do so in the hope the right thing is done.

– Karen Dunn

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Charleston County Mayor Joseph Riley said. What motivated the gunman is not yet clear, but his monstrous act took the lives of nine people who prayed, worked and struggled on behalf of their community and their church. Related ImageExpand / ContractSharonda Coleman-Singleton, was a speech therapist and girls ’ track and field team at Goose Creek High School. ( Courtesy : Charleston Post and Courier) Cynthia Hurd, 54, was a branch manger in the Charleston County Public Library -RRB- system, where Cynthia Hurd was so revered from a career spanning 31 years that all city branches were closed in Cynthia Hurd honor Thursday. Cynthia Hurd was a tireless servant of the community who spent Cynthia Hurd life helping residents, making sure they had every opportunity for an education and personal growth, the library system said in a statement. Cynthia Hurd loss is incomprehensible, and we ask for prayers for Cynthia Hurd family, her co-workers, her church and this entire community as we come together to face this tragic loss. Related ImageExpand / ContractCynthia Hurd was a librarian who worshiped at the venerable church. ( Charleston County Public Library) Quil Lance had retired from Gaillard Center, a performance hall in Charleston County, and been serving as a custodian at the church where Quil Lance worshiped. As big a void as Quil Lance death leaves there, it left an even deeper one in the family Quil Lance held together with love and strength, Quil Lance grandson, Quil Lance, told the Charleston Post and Courier I ’m lost, I ’m lost, granny was the heart of the family. Related ImageExpand / ContractClementa Pinckney was a beloved pastor and respected lawmaker before he was gunned down in his own church Wednesday night. ( Grace Beahm/The Charleston Post and Courier via AP).

– Quil Lance

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Isn’t it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow. Chirology may be one of the vital sciences of the future. ~ Albert Einstein (“Seeing into the Future” ~ Harvey Day) I hate crowds and making speeches. I hate facing cameras and having to answer to a crossfire of questions. Why popular fancy should seize upon me, a scientist, dealing in abstract things and happy if left alone, is a manifestation of mass psychology that is beyond me. I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious. The ideals that have lighted my way and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty and Truth. The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. When his wife asked him to change clothes to meet the German Ambassador: “they want to see me, here I am. If they want to see my clothes, open my closet and show them my suits.

– Albert Einstein

added by anonymous
8 years ago

With Hillary her image of course was known, but she was going to get a fresh start, she paid her dues, she had been a public servant as secretary of state, she was going to start with a fresh slate.

– Charles Krauthammer

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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