Quotes About Service

there is no limit to the amount of good that you can do so long as you do not care who gets the credit.

We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives

Frederick Buechner said, "The place God calls you is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet."7

We need to leave our lusting forever larger spheres of Christian service and concentrate on seeing God for ourselves and finding the deep answer for life in Him. Then, even if we are located in the most obscure corner of the globe, the world will make a road to our door to get that answer. Our service of help to our fellows then becomes incidental to our vision of God, and the direct consequence of it.

Some of us have come to see how utterly connected a man's relationship to his fellows is with his relationship to God. Everything

There is but one task for all -- One life for each to give. What stands if Freedom fall? [ For All We Have and Are ]

I am more likely to give help than to ask it—Bagheera stretched out one paw and admired the steel-blue, ripping-chisel talons at the end of it—still I should like to know.

I had come down here, not to serve God as a craftsman should, but to show my people how great a craftsman I was. They cared not.

Rudyard Kipling

Men often do their best work blind, for some one else's sake.

Cannot tell why we or they March and suffer day by day. Children of the Camp are we, Serving each in his degree; Children of the yoke and goad, Pack and harness, pad and load!

Though I've belted you and flayed you, By the livin' Gawd that made you, You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!

When you have become God's in the measure He wants, He, Himself, will know how to bestow you on others.

And you needn't worry about being useful,' said Dame Ursula. 'When you have become God's in the measure He wants, He, Himself, will know how to bestow you on others.' She was quoting St Basil. Then her face grew wistful, '"Unless He prefer, for thy greater advantage, to keep thee all to himself." That does happen to a few people. Yet, paradoxically, they have the greatest influence.

Our whole Christian life is a dying to selfishness – wasn't it Monsignor Knox who said the cross was "I" crossed out?

Humility has everything to do with love.

Gadna was pre-military training for fifteen- to seventeen-year-olds.

My Father gave In charge to me This child of earth E'en from its birth, To serve and save, Alleluia, And saved is he. This child of clay To me was given, To rear and train By sorrow and pain In the narrow way, Alleluia, From earth to heaven.

Paul Theroux was sitting in the pew (at Bruce Chatwin's memorial service) behind him. "I suppose we'll be here for you next week, Salman," he said.

Later that morning the memorial service for his friend Bruce Chatwin was to be held at the Orthodox church on Moscow Road in Bayswater.

Our body is not made of iron. Our strength is not that of stone. Live and hope in the Lord, and let your service be according to reason.

The Lord was pleased to strengthen us, and remove all fear from us, and disposed our hearts to be as useful as possible.

Let us remember the poor, and not forget kindness to strangers; above all, let us love God with all our soul, and might, and strength, and our neighbour as ourselves.