Quotes about Status

Have I placed more value on my status or title than on my character? What perceptions do I have about myself, other people, and the world? Are they aligned with my purpose? Do they reflect the values I claim to have? What is my true nature, apart from my reputation? What values will I refuse to deny because, to do so, I would violate my ideals and ethics?

I have seen slaves on horseback, while princes go on foot like slaves.

to seat them with nobles, with the princes of His people.

When Pharaoh summons you and asks, ‘What is your occupation?’

Sin" is not just "doing things God has forbidden." It is, as we saw, the failure to be fully functioning, God-reflecting human beings. That is what Paul sums up in 3:23: all sinned and fell short of God's glory. He is referring to the glory that, as true humans, they should have possessed. This is the "glory" spoken of in Psalm 8: the status and responsibility of looking after God's world on his behalf.

Jesus measured greatness in terms of service not status. God determines your greatness by how many people you serve, not how many people serve you.

I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.

an unloved woman who marries, and a maidservant who supplants her mistress.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.

And consider this: the angel appeared to Mary first, not to her husband-to-be, Joseph. 'She had no status or honor apart from him,' yet Gabriel came to Mary—further proof of how much God values women.

To embrace the ascension is to heave a sigh of relief, to give up the struggle to be God (and with it the inevitable despair at our constant failure), and to enjoy our status as creatures: image-bearing creatures, but creatures nonetheless.

both low and high, rich and poor alike.