Quotes About Service

Do we impress people with ourselves, or with the Lord? Do we draw people to our teaching, or to the Lord? This is genuinely vital. It determines the value of all our work and labor.

God must first accomplish something in you before he can accomplish something through you.

I used to pray, "I'm gonna live for God!" Now I pray, "God, come live through me." I used to pray, "I'm gonna work for God!" Now I pray, "God, come do your work through me." I used to pray, "I'm gonna serve God!" Now I pray, "God, please come and serve through

In the information age in which we live, technology has a way of selling us on convenience. If something can't be done electronically, we are not interested in doing it. But the bottom line for effective ministry must never be our own convenience. It takes blisters, commitment, and a willingness to go wherever the Lord leads us to get it done. This may be a foreign concept to some leaders;

We won't be held accountable for how much we have done, but for how much we have done of what He has asked us to do.

Mother Teresa who said, "We can do no great things, only small things, with great love.

Mother Teresa was once asked by a journalist why she does what she does, that is, how she is able to take the dying poor from the streets of Calcutta, nurse and love them. Her response reflected her deep self-knowledge: "I realized a long time ago that I had a Hitler within me."2 This realization became the basis of her self-transcendence and of her unique holiness.

Dead heroes do nothing to protect their people tomorrow.

If everyone waited to do something good until they had purely unselfish motivations, no good would ever get done in the world. The point is to do it anyway.

like a dog will be the day I hand in my badge.

Everybody wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes.

The doctor saves many lives but his own."

Leaders are, therefore, caretakers of the interests and well-being of those and the purposes they serve.

It all begins, I maintain, with that powerful and underutilized thing called love. God's love for the individual is displayed by those people who reflect his love in their words and deeds. It ultimately gets understood and accepted by the child in poverty, and through that individual's love for others, the world gets changed.

Just know this: What you will do among children is as close to the heart of God and central to his kingdom as anything we could mention.

A man follows the path laid out for him. He does his duty to God and his King. He does what he must do, not what pleases him. God's truth, boy, what kind of world would this be if every man did what pleased him alone? Who would plough the fields and reap the harvest, if every man had the right to say, 'I don't want to do that.' In this world there is a place for every man, but every man must know his place.

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

We who are left how shall we look again Happily on the sun or feel the rain Without remembering how they who went Ungrudgingly and spent Their lives for us loved, too, the sun and rain?

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

TO BE HAPPY, BE VIRTUOUS. THERE ARE ONLY TWO REASONS TO EVER DO ANYTHING; TO BE HAPPY, AND TO HELP OTHER PEOPLE BE HAPPY. ALL VIRTUE LIES IN THE SECOND HALF OF THAT, IN WORKING FOR OTHERS, IN PROTECTING THE WEAK FROM THE STRONG.

Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards. —DIOGENES

we are all in business—all of us who work and provide services to our fellow man.

Businesses that don't do something valuable for others do not survive and should not survive. Profit is a way to measure how useful a business is. That doesn't ever change.

Deep within traditional Jewish culture lies the conviction that the only real way to achieve wealth is to attend diligently to the needs of others and to conduct oneself in an honorable and trustworthy fashion.