Choose you this day whom ye will serve† but as for me and my house, we will serve the L.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDJoshua 24:15.

   Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.

-Hume, David
  A  Treatise of Human Nature, bk.2, pt.3, section 3.

All people that on earth do dwell, Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice; Him serve with fear, His praise forth tell, Come ye before Him, and rejoice.

-Kethe,William   d. c.1608
  Daye's Psalter,'All People That on Earth Do Dwell'.

In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. Praise belongs to God, the Lord of all Being, the All-merciful, the All-compassionate the Master of the Day of Doom. Thee only we serve; toThee alone we pray for succour. Guide us in the straight path, the path of those whomThou hast blessed, not of those against whomThou art wrathful, nor of those who are astray.

-The Koran
Sura1, l.1^7.