Quotes About Service

O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console to be understood as to understand to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive it is in pardoning that we are pardoned and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek To be consoled, as to console; Not so much to be understood as To understand; not so much to be Loved as to love; For it is in giving that we receive; It is in pardoning, that we are pardoned

Teach us, good Lord, to serve Thee as Thou deservest:To give and not to count the cost;To fight and not to heed the wounds;To toil and not to seek for rest;To labor and not ask for any rewardSave that of knowing that we do Thy will.

If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God so as to teach these peoples even though some of them still look down on me.

If I be worthy, I live for my God to teach the heathen, even though they may despise me.

Sweet Love say Where, how and when What do you want of me? Yours I am, for You I was born: What do you want of me? . . .

All good things have come to me since I no longer seek them for myself. -Saint John of the Cross

It is sweet to serve one's country by deeds, and it is not absurd to serve her by words.

Asked to explain how he became a war hero he (Kennedy) responded, "It was involuntary. They think my boat.

I often must sacrifice my own needs and desires for the purpose of giving my children what they need and modeling for them the depths of Christ's love. "...make myself available in the routine tasks and myriad interruptions of daily life b/c I believe it is God's will for me to serve my family through them.

There is no single way to serve God, but the point is this: We each have only one life to live to tell a story about Him, about His ways, about His love. And if we are Christ followers, then God calls us to use our gifts, to exercise our faith, and to become salt and light right where we are.

It is natural to quarrel, to be selfish, to live a small-minded life. It is supernatural to love unconditionally, to serve others, to live a life of vision and faith.

How we need more "homemakers" so that all who live in this transient, contemporary world might have a place to belong, to feel loved and valued, to serve and be served, to give and receive and celebrate all that is good. So

Keeping house—picking up those messes one more time—is a service of worship to God as we craft a place of beauty and comfort for all who enter our sanctuary of His very presence.

I always wanted to be a hero--to sacrifice my life in a big way one time--and yet, God has required my sacrifice to be thousands of days, over many years, with one more kiss, one more story, one more meal.

The fact is that the financial advisor must find ways to distinguish himself not just during the initial sales process, but equally importantly on an ongoing basis to keep his clients from going elsewhere.

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.

Ens mantindrem fidels per sempre més al servei d'aquest poble

It's best to be like water, nurturing the ten thousand things without competing, flowing into places people scorn, very like the Tao. Make the earth a dwelling place. Cultivate the heart and mind. Practice benevolence. Stand by your word. Govern with equity. Serve skillfully. Act in a timely way, without contentiousness, free of blame.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands: one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

The easiest way to lead, it turns out, is to serve.

The captains in Tier One were not poseurs. They didn't make speeches, didn't seek attention or acclaim, and were not comfortable wearing the cloak of power. Most of them took subservient roles and carried water for their teammates. In other words, they behaved precisely the way Gruenfeld describes. They won status by doing everything in their power to suggest they didn't deserve it.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him," he wrote. "Fail to honor others and they will fail to honor you. But of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aims fulfilled, they will all say, 'we did this ourselves.'

There is only one boss: the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.