Quotes About Service

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

A married woman, then, in France presents the spectacle of a queen out at service, of a slave, at once free and a prisoner.

The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.

Interagire poco con le altre persone, lasciarmi coinvolgere il meno possibile, dedicarmi a ciò che mi piaceva e, magari, anche rendermi utile un minimo.

So long as I'm Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you've served us - because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.

But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Our troops come from every corner of this country—they are black, white, Latino, Asian, and Native American. They are Christian and Hindu, Jewish and Muslim. And, yes, we know that some of them are gay. Starting this year, no American will be forbidden from serving the country they love because of who they love.

A good GI bill would increase the recruit pool.

Politics didn't lead me to working people. Working people led me into politics.

being ordained is not about serving God perfectly but about serving God visibly, allowing other people to learn whatever they can from watching you rise and fall.

When visitors come to a worship service in my own religious tradition, a great deal depends on how warmly they are welcomed and whether they feel included or excluded by what they hear during the short time they are with us. We may have exactly one shot at communicating who we are to people who know nothing about us - or who think they already know a lot about us - but who, in either case, will remember us at the embodiment of our entire tradition, the prime exemplars of our faith.

If Jesus meant for his followers to rule the world, then why did he teach them to wash feet? As difficult as it is to accept, I believe that his death on the cross reveals the God who suffers for love instead of punishing the unloving, the God who lays down his life for his friends.

To be a priest is to know that things are not as they should be and yet to care for them the way they are.

If Jesus meant for his followers to rule the world, then why did he teach them to wash feet?

A priest is a priest, no matter where she happens to be. Her job is to recognize the holiness in things and hold them up to God. Her job is to speak in ways that help other people recognize the holiness in things too.

I was so busy serving the Divine Presence that we never got any time alone anymore.

Handing out free food and clothes was a charitable act. Approaching the powers was a political act.

being ordained is not about serving God perfectly but about serving God visibly, allowing other people to learn whatever they can from watching you rise and fall. "You probably won't be much worse than other people," he said, "and you certainly won't be any better, but you will have to let people look at you. You will have to let them see you as you are.

Think hard before you do this," one said to me when I told him I wanted to be ordained. "Right now, you have the broadest ministry imaginable. As a layperson, you can serve God no matter what you do for a living, and you can reach out to people who will never set foot inside a church. Once you are ordained, that is going to change. Every layer of responsibility you add is going to narrow your ministry, so think hard before you choose a smaller box.

Those were the ideals that drove us to nationalization of the health service.

Deviation," I repeated, thinking, There it is, so fast, the unsettled something. "It's a little more than that, Dad. We've actually been able to help someone. You know how good that feels. You do it in your work all the time, but James and I don't.

The motto of the Coast Guard is Semper Paratus, which means Always Ready. And The Coast Guard's Rescue Swimmer motto is So Others May Live

I should stop feeling sorry for myself and obsessing with what I'd lost and think about what I could do for someone else.