Quotes About Service

Love God, and within the limitations He has sovereignly placed in your life at this time, do what you can.

Find joy in God and you will find joy in doing the work of God.

It is your duty to advance the aims of the organization and also to help those who serve it. If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens you can never regain their respect and esteem

Nurses are the heart of healthcare.

Saint Teresa of Ávila's Meditation "Christ has no body now, but yours. No hands, no feet on earth, but yours. Yours are the eyes through which Christ looks compassion into the world. Yours are the feet with which Christ walks to do good. Yours are the hands with which Christ blesses the world.… Let nothing trouble you, let nothing frighten you. All things are passing; God never changes. Patience obtains all things. He who possesses God lacks nothing: God alone suffices.

guide us in helping other people be the same.

nuestra mision es estar en paz con nosotros mismos. Por eso es que nuestra mision es mas cuestion de "ser" que de "hacer." Obviamente, el deseo de servir a los demos en muy fuerte en muchas personas.

Let us choose life and love, and happily use our selves up in loving service to one another.

With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.

At her funeral service, our family's reverend reminded me that "I feel great loss because I had great love." Nothing could be more true, because that is the price of great love.

An alternative method is this: from time to time give yourself a day on which you say "Yes" to every request made of you which is at all reasonable. The more you tend to retire from society in your leisure, the more valuable this will be.

The word 'tip' comes from the mid-eighteenth-century innkeepers' sign 'to insure promptness.' Patrons deposited a few coins on the table before ordering a meal or drinks and were served faster.

Those who cannot see Christ in the poor are atheists indeed.

Love in action is harsh and dreadful when compared to love in dreams.

No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.

Charity is only as warm as those who administer it.

Everything a baptized person does every day should be directly or indirectly related to the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy.

We must practice the presence of God. He said that when two or three are gathered together, there he is in the midst of them. He is with us in our kitchens, at our tables, on our breadlines, with our visitors, on our farms. When we pray for our material needs, it brings us close to his humanity. He, too, needed food and shelter; he, too, warmed his hands at a fire and lay down in a boat to sleep.

Paperwork, cleaning the house, dealing with the innumerable visitors who come all through the day, answering the phone, keeping patience and acting intelligently, which is to find some meaning in all that happens – these things, too, are the works of peace.

Doorman - a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip.

If we're going to change the world for the better, kids need to know that they can by feeling good about who they are and helping others.

Bottoming can "turn off our brains" – giving us a quiet respite, in the endorphin high of pain play, the stillness of bondage, or the clarity of giving good service, from the day-to-day clutter and chatter of existence.

You can't minister to everyone on your own. You must help others become ministers. Encourage your leaders to develop relationships with students.

Bigger isn't better; healthier is better. Steer clear of churches and youth workers who are driven by numbers, and surround yourself with those who are motivated by serving God faithfully and pursuing health.