Quotes About Service

Strength is for service, not status

If you have enough strength to help yourself, you have enough strength to help those in need. Never pass up an opportunity.

Selfless service alone gives the needed strength and courage to awaken the sleeping humanity in one's heart.

Many people despise those who spend their health, strength and money for the salvation of others, and call them mad. And yet it is they who will save many and be saved themselves.

Even the least work done for others awakens the power within; even thinking the least good of others gradually instills into the heart the strength of a lion.

God stands in no need of our strength or wisdom, but of our ignorance, of our weakness; let us but give these to Him, and He can make use of us in winning souls.

Real strength has to do with helping others.

Like Jesus we belong to the world living not for ourselves but for others. The joy of the Lord is our strength.

Communion with Christ gives us our strength, our joy, and our love.

I have so much respect for people in the service. The mental strength it takes to do what they do is unbelievable.

Ultimately, no man or woman is happy unless they have found a way to contribute beyond themselves.

Let us love God my brothers, let us love God. But let it be with the strength of our arms and the sweat of our brow.

It will be most pleasing to O[ur] L[ord] if you husband your strength in order to serve Him better.

We must help to the limits of our strength. And we will.

When Reagan was elected, I felt that the Agency had gone much more into the service of a political tendency in the country with which I had already felt very strong disagreement.

Sometimes you have to take the focus off of you and put it on someone else and it's funny what you can accomplish and how much strength you really have.

Selfless action is a source of strength.

It's one of the secrets of strength: We're so much more likely to find it in the service of others than in service to ourselves.

O God, how easily I make them happy! Give me strength to be always the light of their lives and so lead them to You!

Spiritual strength frequently comes through selfless service.

You start to live when you commit your life to cause higher than yourself. You must learn to depend on divine power for the fulfillment of a higher calling.

Every day I see Jesus Christ in all his distressing disguises.

Giving, in the form of volunteer work: enhances your immune system, lowers cholesterol levels, strengthens your heart, decreases the incidence of chest pains, and generally reduces stress.

When people start serving together, they forgot about all their stress, [...] all their own problems. They start focusing on someone else's.