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Quotes About Service

If you recall the happiest moments in your life, they are all from when you were doing something for somebody else.
~ Desmond Tutu
The Christian life is not about finding safety and comfort; it's about finding yourself in a dangerous place of vulnerable compassion.
~ Ed Stetzer
Safety is knowing that when this particular life form is finished, what it has served remains.
~ Gangaji
You can only do two things with your life: give it away or throw it away.
~ Ron White
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
~ Tertullian
When I consider my ministry, I think of the world. Anything less than that would not be worthy of Christ, nor of his will for my life.
~ Henrietta Mears
God has plans, not problems for our lives. The life of a Christian is an education for a higher service. God is training you for something.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
The purpose of our life is to help others through it.
~ Peter Matthiessen
True Christianity is a life of sacrifice. It requires that in everything we live for the Lord and others, not ourselves.
~ Rick Joyner
Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for someone else that improved their life, even for a few minutes.
~ Dave Eggers
Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Cry the Gospel with your whole life.
~ Charles de Foucauld
Regardless of our age, experience, or station in life, we are all missionaries.
~ David A. Bednar
If the life we live in this world is wholly for Christ, it is a life of daily surrender.
~ Ellen G. White
One of the deepest principles of life and leadership: it's not about you.
~ Ken Blanchard
A generous heart, kind speech, & a life of service & compassion are the things which renew humanity.
~ Gautama Buddha
What is the ultimate purpose of life? It's to give.
~ Narayanan Krishnan
When you create a business, you create something that improves the life of your customer, of another person, maybe of ten people, of a thousand people, of a million people. There's no higher calling.
~ Paul Zane Pilzer
We must have a strong inner life of fellowship and intimacy with Jesus if we are going to have a strong outer life of ministry
~ Timothy Keller
You're serving. You're not a servant. Serving is a supreme art. God is the first servant. God serves men but he's not a servant to men. - Eliseo Orefice
~ Roberto Benigni
However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind.
~ Douglas MacArthur
One cannot lead a life that is truly excellent without feeling that one belongs to something greater and more permanent than oneself.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Every man is indeed bound to do what he can to promote the good of others, and a man who is of no use to anyone is strictly worthless.
~ Rene Descartes
There are two components that are fundamental to enjoy life and feel good about yourself: continual learning and service.
~ Tim Ferriss