Quotes About Service

Worship is an act, and this takes discipline.

I reminded Jim of what we both knew it might mean if he went. "Well, if that's the way God wants it to be," was his calm reply. "I'm ready to die for the salvation of the Aucas." While still a student in college Jim had written: "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

O que constitui uma "grande obra para Deus"? Por onde ela começa? Sempre com humildade. Não em ser servido, mas em servir. Não na autoatualização, mas na autoentrega.

One morning I was reading the story of Jesus' feeding of the five thousand. The disciples could find only five loaves of bread and two fishes. "Let me have them," said Jesus. He asked for all. He took them, said the blessing, and broke them before He gave them out. I remembered what a chapel speaker, Ruth Stull of Peru, had said: "If my life is broken when given to Jesus, it is because pieces will feed a multitude, while a loaf will satisfy only a little lad.

para llevar una buena vida y así tener una buena muerte, hemos de tomar nuestras decisiones teniendo por objetivo el amor incondicional y preguntándonos: «¿ Qué servicio voy a prestar con esto?»

La medicina tiene sus límites, realidad qe no se enseña en la facultad. Otra realidad que no se enseña es qe un corazón compaisvo puede sanar casi todo. Unos cuantos meses en el campo me convencieron de que ser buen médico no tiene nada que ver con anatomía, cirugía ni con recetar los medicamentos correctos. El mejor servicio que un médico puede prestar a un enfermo es ser una persona amable, atenta, cariñosa y sensible.

Martha Raye slipped up to the colonel and she said, 'Sir, where do we eat?' He said, 'You mess with the men.' 'I know that,' she said, 'but where do we eat?

Japanese tea ceremony; a way of honoring oneself by putting another's needs first, the joy that could be found in intimate service...A conversation we'd had one night on the way home from a movie. I remember that night he'd put toothpaste on my brush before his own, then bowed, I smiled, but I'd understood too that such small gifts were one seed that blossomed in two hearts.

For ten years before I began writing for a living, I worked as a registered nurse. Never mind that the work was hard—more than once, I literally had not time for even a bathroom break. (My husband never believed me about this, but it was true.) Never mind that I had to work on holidays and every other weekend and on people's birthdays, my own included; I loved the job.

There should be a phone service, I thought, something like 1-800-MEDIUM-1.Where an automated voice would direct you. Press one if an object in your home is levitating. Press two if there is ectoplasm oozing out of your walls. Press three if spirits are disrupting your cable service. Press four if you've inherited your mother's psychic abilities.

If God answers my requests my heaven will be spent on earth up until the end of the world. Yes, I want to spend my heaven in doing good on earth. . . . After my death, I will let fall a shower of roses.

Only one life, it will soon be past, only what's done for Christ will last.

One of the greatest advantages of singleness is the potential for greater focus on Christ and accomplishing work for Him.

Each day is precious when we consider what we can do to serve God and His Kingdom.

Leave your mark on the world by leaving behind a child who grows up to love and serve the Lord.

Raising your children to love and serve Jesus is fulfilling one of God's highest callings upon your life.

Harmony is produced in ministry when everyone seeks to be a servant.

A teacher is like the candle, which lights others in consuming itself.

Jesus teaches us to give richly, serve sacrificially, and love unconditionally.

Every day ask your husband two questions: "What can I do for you today?" and "What can I do to help you make better use of your time today?

Your attitude of serving the Lord can transform even the most menial of tasks into a magnificent sacrifice of love.

When we promote the well-being of others God has placed in our lives our service glorifies God.

The effectiveness of your ministry to people will be in direct proportion to the time you spend away from people and with God in a quiet time of preparation.

It's not what you get, but what you give that is God's true measure of a life.