Quotes About Service

Life demands that we live to care for others instead of living to care for self

He wore his medals. He had a surprising number of them, the real kind, not the ones you got for turning up. Although turning up was no mean thing, some days.

Life isn't only about choice. Life is about how you provide value to your life and others.

Live up to your highest calling on earth.

With honesty and a little digging, we have the opportunity to identify our gifts and harness them in the service of our best self—our own unique noble purpose.

We have a fundamental imperative in our lives to matter to others, to serve others, and to support each other in mattering more.

Balance how much you give of youself, including volunteer activities.You won't do anyone any good you are stretched too thin.

In early May 1968, RT Lion was joined by a wiry, tough-as-nails little paratrooper who introduced himself as Lou "Jake Three Zero" DeSeta. DeSeta had served with the 173rd Airborne Brigade for 13 months and had participated in the fabled Battle of Dak To.

God, you made me. You love me. What would you have me do? Where would you have me go? Who would you have me serve? Show me how I can be your eyes of compassion, your heart of love, and your hands reaching out to this world. Amen.

Christ has no body now but yours No hands, no feet on earth but yours Yours are the eyes through which he looks Compassion on this world Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good Yours are the hands with which he blesses all the world.

. . . God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts; who best Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best; his State is Kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed And post o'er Land and Ocean without rest: They also serve who only stand and wait.

When I consider how my light is spent,Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide,And that one talent which is death to hideLodg'd with me useless.

Who bestBear his mild yoke, they serve him best: his stateIs kingly; thousands at his bidding speed,And post o'er land and ocean without rest;They also serve who only stand and wait.

He also serves who only stands and waits.

Let's be about leaving this world better than we find it each and every day. Our life is a testimony and through us divine loving is becoming more manifest. Greater good is calling upon us here in this world to be done this day. One of my rallying calls is let's go out and do some good. This is who we are. This is what we are about.

We have no Scriptural evidence that we serve the Lord at all, any farther than we find a habitual desire and aim to serve him wholly. He is gracious to our imperfections and weakness; yet he requires all the heart, and will not be served by halves, nor accept what is performed by a divided heart.

If we go to church or share our faith or read our Bibles or serve the poor out of a sense of mere duty or in order to achieve our own righteousness, then we lose the satisfaction God intended for us to experience when we willingly offer ourselves to His Glory. This is a tragedy of tremendous proportion and steals from the joy of our salvation.

Jesus put it like this: You are the salt of the earth. You are the light of the world. Others have come before you. Others will come after you. But this is your day. If God's kingdom is to manifest itself right now, it will have to be through you. God himself will not come to take your place. You are on a mission from God.

You have been conveyed into God's kingdom to help others get out. You have been released to release others. You are set free that you might go forth and set others free.

GW: 'Vigilant citizens are required to keep parties focused on serving the people rather than the unprincipled pursuit of power that divides in order to conquer

Alice (backed up with the Professor's relentless logic) convinced Louis to shake up the Leadership Council. He was reluctant to do anything that would show disrespect for birds who had worked hard for years to help and serve the colony. Making the moves while preserving the dignity of all was not easy.

Buddy was offered a number of more important jobs. He turned them all down, but helped the Leadership Council find other good candidates. His lack of ambition came to be seen as great humility. The birds loved him even more.

God is working to bring all things together. The purpose is to heal and to reconcile people with each other and with God. God's mission is also ours. We have been given the same ministry of reconciliation (2 Corinthians 5:18-20).

Why don't people ask us about our hope? The answer is probably that we look as if we hope in the same things they do. Our lives don't look like they are on the Calvary road, stripped down for sacrificial love, serving others with the sweet assurance that we don't need to be rewarded in this life.