Quotes About Service

work, whatever it must be, is the service of God and of the community and therefore the expression of man's dignity. - Emil Brunner, Gifford Lectures, 1948

Offer up your modesty as a sacrifice to service and revel.

Señor, no es por vicio ni por fornicio sino por dar un hijo a tu servicio.

Thou art a fool," she murmured instead, "to think a man can serve two masters." She lifted a varvel and let it fall against his armor, smiling. "A splendid fool. Come into my service to stay, be it thy desire.

A victim soul is a pious individual chosen to absorb the pain and suffering of others.

Isn't everyone's true purpose to love and be loved? To be in service to and to take care of those who need us most?

Instruments of God. We are the hammer, but our Father is the carpenter. Do not thank the hammer for a carpentry job well done. Snelling, Lauraine. An Untamed Heart (Red River of the North)

They would be happy to bring some up. No one bitched about the time. No one questioned. You can always tell how much you're paying for a room by how little they complain.

He'd let his anger take him to a place that his ass might have trouble getting out of, or maybe I just didn't understand the normal branch of the service whose badge I carried. She put her elbows on the arms of her chair, her hands like a double fist in front of her lips. "Second, get the fuck off my desk." Oh, I did understand the normal branch of the service. It worked just like all the others.

I called room service wearing nothing but a towel. I'd almost forgotten. I ordered a pot of coffee, sugar, and cream. They asked if I wanted decaf. I said no thank you. Pushy. Like waiters asking if I wanted a diet Coke when I didn't ask for it. They never ask men, even portly men, if they want diet Cokes. I

One's true work is never merely 'my work,' but humanity's work. It's not really self-expression, unless by 'self' we mean it with a capital S, and that Self is the Self within all mankind.

Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation.

A hero is, in the words of Joseph Campbell, "someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself."2

Mandatory community service" seemed like hypocrisy

Faith and fear, they tell me, can't coexist. I try to practice by doing what I'm afraid to do, and I manage (now and then, anyway) by means of faith. Faith that I will do myself more good than harm by the risks I am willing to take as a writer. And faith, finally, that the best service I can do myself is to do the best and most honest work of which I am capable.

the switchboard operator answered every call, "Hotel Dixie, so what?

In her there was a pliancy, a resilience which was Oriental — a passion to serve.

All the science of the Saints is included in these two things: To do, and to suffer. And whoever had done these two things best, has made himself most saintly.

The most humble research scientist in the Department of Agriculture is at this time contributing more to this country than the most useful member of Congress.

It is a real service to humanity and the world to be a good programmer, particularly if you design great products. You make is easier for everybody, everybody has less headaches.

If we would serve science, we must extend her limits, not only as far as our own knowledge is concerned, but in the estimation of others.

Business is not financial science, it's about trading.. buying and selling. It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it.

We men who serve science serve only a reflection in a mirror.

I always had a respect and an admiration for people who got into politics. I certainly have always been interested in law and political science.