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

“Perhaps they thought the Urisk planned to beg for mercy. Perhaps the generals thought the Urisk were praying for some imaginary god to swoop in and save them.In either case, the generals would be wrong. The Urisk aren’t begging for mercy and they aren’t praying to an imaginary god.They’re praying to me.Now pardon me for a moment, I have some swooping and saving to do.”

“The purpose of man's creation is that he do good in the world, not substitutehimself for God and think that he can make and unmake the moral law at his ownconvenience and for his own selfish and narrow ends. This is the difference betweenphysical laws and the moral law—the one is to be used and put to service; the othermust be obeyed and served. For God says”

“The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.”

“God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.”

“Endeavour to serve with such good will and attention to the interest of your employers, that they know they are blessed in having gotten such a good servant, one who serves, not with eye-service as a man-pleaser, but in simplicity of heart as a Christian. - Samuel and Sarah Adams, The Complete Servant”