I would rather be a servant in the house of the Lord than set in the seat of the mighty.

I would rather have a back row seat in the house of the lord than a front row seat amoung the rich and powerful

I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.

The best audience is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.

And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the LORD said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever: / Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of the land which I gave their fathers; only if they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.

And he set the porters at the gates of the house of the LORD, that none which was unclean in any thing should enter in.