Quotes About Service

they can still think of their daily work as an offering, their desk or anvil or stovetop as an "altar" to God, and they can still offer their work

Spreading the love of Jesus Christ is a duty of all Christians. We can't keep our faith unless we give it away.

To be a father means above all to be at the service of life and growth

Ray-Ray had been on track for a golden-rule life of selfless service.

Allein wer andre wohl zu leiten strebt muß fähig sein viel zu entbehren

In science it is a service of the highest merit to seek out those fragmentary truths attained by the ancients, and to develop them further.

The problem is you are working on projects. Service-level response times interfere with project work and cause multitasking. Maybe someone has to do that work, but maybe not you. Or, if you do have to do it, someone else can rank-order the work, and you can work in short timeboxes so you have a chance of completing the necessary-to-the-organization work without multitasking.

It (nursing) comes more from care than study.

By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

Ours is a church of moral work—not because we think morality is a sufficient religion, but because we know no better way of showing our gratitude to God, and our confidence in one another.

There is a useful distinction between good leaders and leaders of good

Leadership is essentially an other-centred activity not self centred one

Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

A good exercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up.

Speak Thou in my words to-day, think in my thoughts, and work in all my deeds. And seeing that it is Thy gracious will to make use even of such weak human instruments in the fulfilment of Thy mighty purpose for the world, let my life to-day be the channel through which some little portion of Thy divine love and pity may reach the lives that are nearest to my own.

A few, more dedicated to public service, in government, in the Cabinet even, stifling yawns as popular opinion forced them into legislating for reforms that they must have hated.

Those men and women were not press-ganged into service. It was not just a choice for them. It was and remains a calling. And sir, no nation on earth can hope to survive long without people who will answer that call. No nation can hope to survive if it does not respect what they have offered and do the hard things that history sometimes asks of us. Sometimes, Mister President, there is no answer but blood.

My dad and my uncles owned a bar outside of Cincinnati. I worked there growing up, mopping floors, waiting tables.

The feeling of righteousness is the core mood alteration among religious addicts. Religious addiction is a massive problem in our society. It may be the most pernicious of all addictions because it's so hard for a person to break his delusion and denial. How can anything be wrong with loving God and giving your life for good works and service to mankind?

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice — no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice -- no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.