Serviam
Serviam is Latin for "I will serve." This was the cry of St. Michael the Archangel as a response to Lucifer's "I will not serve" (''Non serviam'') when God put the angels to the test. In Catholicism Bishop Gerard L. Frey, who once headed the dioceses of Savannah, Ga., and Lafayette used it as his motto. It is also recommended as a morning prayer or morning offering. References

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Non Serviam
''Non serviam'' is Latin for "I will not serve". The phrase is traditionally attributed to Satan, who is thought to have spoken these words as a refusal to serve God in heaven. Today "non serviam" is also used or referred to as motto by a number of political, cultural, and religious groups to express their wish to rebel; it may be used to express a radical view against established common beliefs and organisational structures accepted as the status quo. Use In the Latin Vulgate, Jeremiah laments that the people of Israel speak "''non serviam''" to express their rejection of God (). This is the only appearance of the phrase in the Vulgate. In James Joyce's ''A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'', Stephen Dedalus says "I will not serve that in which I no longer believe whether it call itself my home, my fatherland or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow ...
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