Quotes About Service

Missional churches act faithfully and intentionally wherever God gives them opportunity.

Every church and believer must ask: What are we known for in the community? What do we represent?

Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can.

It's fine to enjoy familiar surroundings and desire familiar comforts—as long as we understand there may be times when we can't have them. Sometimes we're called to larger duties—like a soldier leaving home to go off to war. Second thoughts at such times are natural—but the Bible tells us, "You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ" (2 Timothy 2:3 NKJV).

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.

understanding of God's will starts with surrender of our wills to Him and with charitable, loving acts of service to others. We cannot live unto ourselves alone.

we are, to the best of our ability, gaining a knowledge of God's will by the practice of faith, honesty, and unselfish service.

the power to carry out God's will must come from the inspiration and energy that are found in the emotion, love-love that embraces God and humankind. We serve and appreciate both.

A happy New Year! Grant that I May bring no tear to any eye When this New Year in time shall end Let it be said I've played the friend, Have lived and loved and labored here, And made of it a happy year.

For all that ye may ever keep is just what you give away, and that you give away is advice, counsel, manner of life you live yourself." The manner in which you treat your fellow man, your patience, your brotherly love, your kindness, your gentleness. That you give away, that is all that ye may possess in those other realms of consciousness.

To express love in thine activities to thy neighbor is the greater service that a soul may give in this mundane sphere.

We are all prone to think first of ourselves and when we find an individual interested in us we are interested in him, but if he is interested in himself first, seldom do we find him interesting. Then, how it must come home to us, "know ye not that I must be about my Fathers business?" if we would have Him interested in us.

For until ye are willing to lose thyself in service, ye may not indeed know that peace which He has promised to give--to all.

You get to heaven on the arms of people you have helped.

First, know thine own ideal - spiritual, mental and material; not as to what ye would have others do, but what ye would do for others.

But the less one thinks of self's opinions, and the better listener one becomes, greater may be the opportunities for being of help or benefit to those about the entity.

Be happy--be in the attitude of ever being helpful to others. This will bring that peace within that is the promise from Him.

Remember that the person requesting your help may feel uncomfortable, so make sure to ask what the client really wants and how you can best help.

succeeded in making a small, jerky motion. "I was only doing my job.

For all men serve him of their own free will. And he whom Love touches not walks in darkness.

The truly educated man is the man who has learned the duty and responsibility of doing something useful, something helpful, something to make this old world of ours better and a happier place in which to live.

She was, so to speak, an impersonal creature, because of her great heart; a woman who did not belong to herself: God seemed to have made her only to give her to others.

I find it worth while to help clean up the mess made by malevolence and folly. But I do try not to like the mess for its own sake.

The call of the Word of God to the gospel ministry comes to ALL those who have the gifts for such a ministry.