Quotes About Service

I didn't run for Governor for me; I ran to help the people of West Virginia.

I pastor a very large church in western Australia. We have about - over 2,000 people, which we have a Bible school, community services, a lot of things linked with it. So my life's very full today. Not enough days in the week.

What he has done for women is final: he gave to their service the best powers of his mind and the best years of his life. His death consecrates the gift: it can never lessen its value.

We can actually do some very practical things that can help people's lives and make life better for Kentuckians and that's what I'm all about.

Faith is about offering emotional and practical help to your neighbours while expecting nothing in return: you do so simply because you think it's needed.

I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.

I am a career physician. I practiced for 32 years before I began my career as a public servant.

There were a number of reasons I decided to join the New York City Police Department back in 1984. I felt a calling to protect and serve my neighbors, and I wanted to reform negative departmental practices from within. On top of those factors, becoming a police officer gave me a pathway to the middle class.

Too many of us are lonely ministers practicing a lonely ministry.

I like practicing law.

For 25 years practicing medicine, I never asked anybody if they were a Republican or a Democratic or an independent and asked if they had insurance or not. I took care of everybody.

It would not be possible to praise nurses too highly.

Me, the bard out of work, the Lord has applied to His service. In the very beginning, He gave me the order to sing His praises night and day. The Master summoned the minstrel to His True Court. He clothed me with the robe of His true honour and eulogy. Since then, the True Name had become my ambrosial food.

We should love the body insofar as it is obedient and helpful to the soul, since the soul, with the body's help and service, is better disposed for the service and praise of our Creator and Lord.

I'd say most definitely with my faith, there's no room for me with it. It's always about other people. It's always about loving on other people and giving praise where praise is due.

Dogs notice, they share, they draw conclusions, they like it when they're able to be of service and are touchingly grateful when they're praised.

A short, glorious life in service of a greater good - say, the life of the Spartans at Thermopylae, or the pilots in the Battle of Britain, of whom Winston Churchill said 'Never have so many owed so much to so few,' - that is worth praising. But for glory alone? I think not.

Americans knock themselves out, especially since 9/11, praising the military.

I pray to be of service to the playwright, the audience, the other actors and my character.

We pray that the Lord may help us to produce His light in ourselves, even in dark days, so that we might be light for others, illuminating the world and life in this world.

I love to drown myself in work. I pray to God to keep me busy and let me do good work.

'Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country.

The Holy Ghost is a comforter and a guide. But it is also a cleansing agent. That is why service in the kingdom is so crucial to enduring. When we are called to serve, we can pray for the Holy Ghost to be our companion with assurance it will come.

Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.