Quotes About Service

I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected.

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.

true Christians consider themselves not as satisfying some rigorous creditor, but as discharging a debt of gratitude

Nor is it only in prophane history that instances like these are to be found, of persons committing the greatest crimes with a sincere conviction of the rectitude of their conduct. Scripture will afford us parallels; and it was surely to guard us against the very error which we have been now exposing, that our blessed Saviour forewarned his disciples: "The time cometh, that whosoever [Pg 13] killeth you will think that he doeth God service.

Small service is true service while it lasts:Of humblest friends, bright creature! scorn not one:The daisy, by the shadow that it casts,Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun.

Stern daughter of the voice of God!O Duty!

Enough, if something from our hands have powerTo live, and act, and serve the future hour.

Duty were our games.

God gives me the children's ministry heart and patience. This is what He wants. It's awesome. I don't know where He's gonna take it - but God is building this thing.

Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton.

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

He [President Franklin D. Roosevelt] died in harness, and we may well say in battle harness, like his soldiers, sailors, and airmen, who side by side with ours are carrying on their task to the end all over the world. What an enviable death was his.

Dios creó al hombre con la intención de que el hombre fuese un sacerdote, es decir, una persona que se acerca a Dios, le permite a Dios fluir por medio de él, es saturado con Dios y expresa la gloria de Dios. Dios también tuvo la intención de que el hombre ejerciera Su autoridad.

In every local church there is a star;

Instead of being great, the Lord wanted to be small in order to be food for us.

One who is learning to serve should not do the same thing today as he did yesterday. If he is the same today as yesterday, he has squandered his opportunities. If we do not know what the Lord is doing today or what is going to happen today, we are missing the opportunity.

We believe that Christ is going to come again. But do not think that the Lord Jesus will automatically come if we sit and passively wait. No, there is a work which the church must do. As the Body of Christ, we must learn to work together with God. We should never think that it is enough just to be saved. It is not. We must be concerned with God's need. (CWWN, vol. 34, "The Glorious Church," pp. 61, 63-64)

...if anything matters then everything matters. Because you are important, everything you do is important. Every time you forgive, the universe changes; every time you reach out and touch a heart or a life, the world changes; with every kindness and service, seen or unseen, my purposes are accomplished and nothing will be the same again.

A lot of restaurants serve good food, but they don't have very good service.

Worship is not so much what we do but how we do it; not so much what we say or sing but how we are a living sacrifice.

church is not a meeting; it is a way of life.

Christianity has never been cheap; it was always meant to cost us our very lives.

If we do not disciple and empower others as Jesus did, we end up exploiting them and using them for our own ends, even if we clothe our actions in very spiritual terms.