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"In serving the poor, one serves humanity. In serving mankind, one serves equity. In serving goodness, one serves God. In serving the Creator, one serves himself."
"Every place is now God's temple, and His people can as truly serve Him in their daily employments as in His house. They are to be always "ministering," offering the spiritual sacrifice of prayer and praise, and presenting themselves a "living sacrifice."
"Real accomplishments do virtually nothing to serve me and they do everything to serve others. Anything less is nothing more than a meaningless task dressed in the deceptive finery of accomplishments."
"God cares about those in need, and so should His people."
"To serve means to dedicate or devote yourself fully to a certain course and to please the person you are serving in everything."
"The highest happiness on earth exists in the donation of self for the betterment of others."
"You shouldn't live for yourself alone but you must also learn to live the Christian life."
Explore more quotes by Erica Jong
"Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends."
"Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly."
"Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have."
"Women in America read 'lifestyle' pages which are really glorifications of shopping. They teach us we must veil ourselves in make-up to be loved. And we willingly take the veil, thinking ourselves freed by it. Make-up is no more optional for us than the veil is for Arab women: it is our Western version of the chador."
"Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love."
"Maybe marriages are best in middle age. When all the nonsense falls away and you realize you have to love one another because you're going to die anyway."
"We came to realize how little married couples see of each other once they crawl in the bourgeois box."
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