Quotes About Service

You get one life. And if you make the mistake of choosing a profession that doesn't enrich anybody but you, you wont even live that one

I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry?

Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will.

If I'm not pointing people to Jesus then I'm wasting my life.

Life can only be kept by giving it away. But then it will bloom.

The translucent life is very much about overflowing with a gift to the world, rather than being here to consume or to get something for yourself.

My vocation is to make my life an act of worship

A job is a sacrifice. Following an interest - that's a contribution. And we're here on the planet, not to sacrifice ourselves, but to make a contribution.

Service is the key to everything in life.

When you make Service your sole purpose in life, it eliminates fear, focuses your mind and gives you meaning.

Find someone worse off than you and help them. It will put your life in perspective.

Labor is service and service is life. And when we serve something more than ourselves, we feel alive.

Life is not worth living unless it is lived for others.

Joining the Sangha and renouncing worldly life is necessary in order to devote your whole life and all your energies toward the Dharma.

It's vital always to bear in mind that we practise for the sake of all other beings, and that the enormity of this aspiration is what makes dharma practice both extremely powerful and inexhaustible, virtually guaranteeing that the result will be infinitely beneficial.

At some point in this generation, "Take up your cross and follow me" changed into, "Come to Jesus and he'll make your life better.

Happiness doesn't come to you; you join happiness on the way to doing something for others.

Around the world the problem of Christian work is the problem of the Christian worker.

An intelligence service is, in fact, a stupidity service.

We aim to please Miss Steele

I am out here to work, mind, to hold this wretched country by force. I'm not a missionary or a Labour Member or a vague sentimental sympathetic literary man. I'm just a servant of the Government; it's the profession you wanted me to choose myself, and that's that. We're not pleasant in India, and we don't intend to be pleasant. We've something more important to do.

Religion was to him a service, a mystic communion with good; not a means of getting what he wanted on the earth.

Aziz, may I have a drink?" "Certainly not!" He flew to get one.

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.