Quotes About Service

If we are not living our lives to make someone else's better, than we are not really living at all.

If life only has the meaning you bring to it, we have the opportunity to bring rich meaning to our lives by the service we do for others. It's a positive thing.

Each one of us should have much of the written Word resident within us through our "devotional" relationship to the Word of God. Then we can be quickened by the Holy Spirit to speak the Word of the Lord to those who are needy, at the time of their need. This is a practical "ministry" that often is not recognized.

Get rid of the idea that God wants you to sacrifice yourself for others, and that you can secure his favor by doing so; God requires nothing of the kind. What he wants is that you should make the most of yourself, for yourself, and for others; and you can help others more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

See that you give them a use value greater than the cash value you are taking from them.

you can render to God and humanity no greater service than to make the most of yourself.

Jesus, The Man and His Work Published from a Lecture by Wallace D. Wattles Cincinnati, Ohio (November 11, 1905)

Death is at work in every person. It is the natural progression of life. Paul realized this and elected to participate willingly by purposely putting himself to death by spending his life on others.

God makes you an incredible offer:You can give your life in exchange for the same thing for which Jesus spent His life – people. People last forever. For good or bad, they are eternal. Spend your life helping them prepare for their eternity. Don't give your life to mediocrity. Life is too short and the issues of eternity too significant.

The switch from sales ladies behind each counter in five-and-dime stores to checkout lines, from waiter-served to self-service and fast-food restaurants, from full-service to self-service gasoline stations are among the responses to higher labor costs. So, too, are the absence of movie theater ushers and the wide use by restaurants of plastic utensils and paper plates, because they do not require dishwashing.

Only man can freely choose not to serve his Creator.

The service of God must take preference over all else.

Podía aceptar los trabajos y sufrimientos de cada día como venidos de las manos de Dios y ofrecérselos no solo por él, sino por todos los que lo rodeaban. La función del sacerdote consiste en ofrecer esas cosas a Dios por el prójimo y servir de ejemplo, de testigo, de mártir, de testimonio de la providencia y de los fines de Dios ante los hombres que lo rodean.

En los campos fui capaz de servir humildemente a los hombres que Dios ponía en mi camino cada día. Si las obras del espíritu en nosotros las acabamos conociendo lentamente, ¿cómo no vamos a empezar a detectar aún más lentamente las obras de ese espíritu en los demás? Mientras realizaba mi labor diaria, daba gracias a Dios una y otra vez por la terrible etapa de purificación que atravesé en Lubianka para poder servir a aquellos hombres.

It means the routine, not the spectacular. It can mean drudgery, pain, putting aside pleasures, happiness, or the love the human heart craves until another time, so that what is necessary at the moment can be done. It means working for others, touching the lives of others, through the medium of the body.

It is no longer enough to be the best. Somehow, as well, it matters to be wise. To know on whose behalf he wields the sword.

The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and security and stake their own lives in order to do what they themselves think worth doing.

When it was all over, the dancers who had been long in Shawn's service were given either a substantial (for those days) cash reward (or severance pay) or a parcel of Jacob's Pillow land.

Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy by serving your fellow man.

Aside from their physical health, this damages both our sons' psychological security, and our nation's global security: a third of young men are not fit for military service owing to obesity and other physical and mental problems.

We need citizens who are less concerned about what their government can do for them, and more concerned about what they can do for the nation. ~ Warren G. Harding

We must have a citizenship less concerned about what the government can do for it and more anxious about what it can do for the nation.

Thus it happens that your true dull minds are generally preferred for public employ, and especially promoted to city honors; your keen intellects, like razors, being considered too sharp for common service. I

Every true work is not done to the poor. Every true work is done to Me.