Quotes About Service

Love is in the acts, not in the feels.

the only people qualified to help govern are those who have no interest in doing so.

Unlike the Marines, who are given macho monikers like "jarheads," the Coast Guard had long been denigrated in military circles as fey "puddle jumpers." But just as 9/11 brought a newfound respect to firemen, Katrina did the same for the reputation of the Coast Guard. At the peak of rescue operations they had 62 aircraft, 30 cutters, and 111 small boats stepping up in rescue and recovery operations. They did it all one person at a time.

Our human vocation is to work and take care of the place where God has planted us, to serve him in our rule in creation as priests in his temple. Caring for the earth is not, in this light, a peripheral biblical theme; it is central to our identity as God's image bearers.

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

By profession I am a Soldier and take pride in that fact, but I am prouder to be a father

Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

And like the old soldier in that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the sight to see that duty.

Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

The church has ministers—which was a gift of Jesus Christ Himself from Heaven—and the church also has a professional class, which may or may not be a gift from Heaven.

We cannot carry everything, but God still insists that we carry something. We are to weep with those who weep (Rom. 12:15). God wants us to be a neighbor to those who suffer without aspiring to the position of a god in the lives of those who suffer. And in the parable of the Good Samaritan, Jesus defines neighbor as the one in front of us right now.

So my responsibility is, so to speak, whatever is in front of me, there on my workbench or desk or counter. I should do a first-rate job with that, and other things will fall into place. And as they fall into place, it will not be the impersonal doing of Adam Smith's invisible hand. Every blessing a Christian ever receives is from a pierced hand.

13. What is biblical masculinity? It is the glad assumption of sacrificial responsibility.

Remember that Jesus has a body in this world. You are His hands and feet. But remember also that His hands and feet were pierced.

Politics isn't about big money or power games, it's about the improvement of people's lives. Paul Wellstone

It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.

Whatever your life' work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

Patriotism is not only patrolling the nation's borders, but doing ones duties perfectly.

be helpful to them that ain't got it so good. Dr. Dooley encouraged us at St. Mary's College in So. Bend, IN to do this. That was in 1961!

Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.