Two Masters Quotes

Verily a man cannot serve two masters. And I consider the foundation or destruction of a religion far greater than the foundation or destruction of a state, let alone a party.

One heart cannot serve two masters.

The Lord put it clearly: you cannot serve two masters. You have to choose between God and money.

You not only choose between two ways of life but you choose between two masters.

If a man cannot serve two masters, neither can Christianity, or several thousand of them as the case may be.

There's no question almost press secretaries talk about the sense of serving two masters. On the one hand you want to protect the president's interests, and you represent his interests to the press. And the press is a proxy for the American people.

The New Testament states that man cannot serve two masters. He must choose one -God, and not the other - money. For what man chooses will reveal his heart.

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

To withdraw ourselves from the law of the strong, we have found ourselves obliged to submit to justice. Justice or might, we must choose between these two masters.

It is a very difficult job, being the servant of two masters.

[T]he historian must serve two masters, the past and the present.

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.

Let it be fact, one feels, or let it be fiction; the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously.

The man that is popular with the world is not a friend of Jesus. You cannot serve two masters. The world hates Christ, and if you are a friend of the world you cannot be a friend of His. You may be sure that something is wrong with you when everybody is your friend.

The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.

In translation you have to get it right, you have to be precise in what you're doing. You have to attempt what they did in that language - say, in Arabic - and try to accomplish a version of that in English, and you're constantly serving two masters.

You are made in the image of what you desire.

A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

In order to protect himself from force, man was obliged to submit to justice. Justice or force: he was compelled to choose between the two masters, so little are we made to be independent.

I do not know but it is too much to read one newspaper a week. I have tried it recently, and for so long it seems to me that I have not dwelt in my native region. The sun, the clouds, the snow, the trees say not so much to me. You cannot serve two masters.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

Biblical backing for Mormon behavior is easy to find, although Mark Twain is reported to have denied its legitimacy to a Mormon. The Mormon claimed polygamy was perfectly moral and he defied Twain to cite any passage of Scripture which forbade it. 'Well,' said Twain, 'how about that passage that tells us no man can serve two masters at the same time?'

Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

The best marriage in the world is two servants in love. The worst marriage in the world is two masters in love.

No Compromise is what the whole Gospel of Jesus is all about... 'For I tell you...no man can serve two masters...' (Matt. 6:24). In a day when believers seem to be trying to please both the world and the Lord (which is an impossible thing), when people are far more concerned about offending their friends than offending God, there is only one answer...Deny yourself, take up your cross and follow Him!

Women cannot serve two masters at once who are urgently beaming antithetical orders.... Either we believe in patriarchy the rule of men over women - or we believe in equality.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

... a bad attitude, that the love of money is the root of all evil and the rich are evil and greedy and all that stuff. It’s basically socialism and communism.

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.

No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

I find historical figures in general very tricky because you feel at times that you're serving two masters. Not only the arc and wonderful writing that comes with the show, but also the history of a person's life.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.