“I am in charity, my children, with all the servants of God.”
Cædmon (657–680) Ancient English poet
Last words (c.680), reported by Bede.
Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 867
Context: There is not a fellow under the sun who is my disciple. On the contrary, I am everybody's disciple. All are the children of God. All are His servants. I too am a child of God. I too am His servant.
“I am in charity, my children, with all the servants of God.”
Cædmon (657–680) Ancient English poet
Last words (c.680), reported by Bede.
“I have no disciple. I am the servant of the servant of Rama.”
Ramakrishna (1836–1886) Indian mystic and religious preacher
Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 742
“It is God that forgives you; I am but your fellow-servant.”
Ann Lee (1736–1784) English Shaker leader
The Communistic Societies of the United States (1875)
Context: I can freely forgive you, and I pray God to forgive you. It is God that forgives you; I am but your fellow-servant.
John Flavel (1627–1691) English Presbyterian clergyman
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 560.
“Am a servant of Rama,
Accredited to His Court,
What for should I
Be a Courier of man?”
Tulsidas (1532–1623) Hindu poet-saint
A couplet he composed when he refused to accept the honour as one of the Ratna’s (Jewel) as a poet in the Imperial court of Akbar by his friend Abdurrahim Khan-i-Khana. Quoted in "A Garden of Deeds: Ramacharitmanas, a Message of Human Ethics", p. 54
“I am a servant to the farmers.”
Verghese Kurien (1921–2012) Indian founder of dairy-cooperative Amul
In How a farmers’ servant painted the nation white, 9 September 2012, 31 Deccember 2013, The Hindu http://www.hindustantimes.com/comment/columnsothers/how-a-farmers-servant-painted-the-nation-white/article1-927184.aspx, <br class="br">Quote
Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher
Section 54
The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)