Quotes About Service

The people who make a difference are not the ones with the credentials, but the ones with the concern.

Not once did Christ use his supernatural powers for personal comfort.

Mother Teresa is credited with saying, "God didn't call us to be successful, just faithful.

Pray for people. Serve more. Practice patience. And, bring the best out in people.

God has a great race for you to run. Under his care you will go where you've never been and serve in ways you've never dreamed.

do the best, you put a smile on God's face. What could be better than that?

Having pressed the grapes of service, we drink life's sweetest wine —the wine of giving. We are at our best when we are giving. In fact, we are most like God when we are giving.

God is too gracious to ask you to do something you hate.

Jesus will recount, one by one, all the acts of kindness. Every deed done to improve the lot of another person. Even the small ones. The works of mercy are simple deeds. And yet in these simple deeds, we serve Jesus. Astounding, this truth: we serve Christ by serving needy people. Outlive Your Life

Everything you do or say should be done to obey Jesus your Lord. Colossians 3:17

If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ" (1 Pet. 4:11).When God gives an assignment, he also gives the skill. Study your skills, then, to reveal your assignment.

One stay-at-home mom keeps this sign over her kitchen sink: "Divine tasks performed here, daily." An executive hung this plaque in her office: "My desk is my altar." Both are correct. With God, our work matters as much as our worship. Indeed, work can be worship.

Isn't it enough that these hands will be pierced in the morning? Must they scrub grime tonight? And the disciples . . . do they deserve to have their feet washed?

We are at our best when we are giving. In fact, we are most like God when we are giving.

Compassion matters to God. This is the time for service, not self-centeredness. Cancel the pity party. Love the people God brings to you.

None of us can help everyone. But all of us can help someone. And when we help them, we serve Jesus.

JESUS WASHES OUR FEET FOR TWO REASONS. The first is to give us mercy; the second is to give us a message, and that message is simply this: Jesus offers unconditional grace; we are to offer unconditional grace.

How we treat others is how we treat Jesus.

You are in the Lord's service. "For there stood by me this night an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I serve" (Acts 27:23).

How would you have responded if Jesus, knowing everything about you, knelt before you to wash your feet?

Nunca te pareces más a Jesús que cuando oras por otros. Ora por la gente que amas; ora por los que no amas. Ora por este mundo que sufre. Preséntale tu caso al Dador del pan. Y trae la canasta para los alimentos. Dios te dará abundantes bendiciones para que se las lleves.

And at the supper, Jesus is not the served but the servant. It was Jesus who, during the supper, put on the garb of a servant and washed the disciples' feet (John 13:5).

But, Mr. Lucado, I want to be a missionary when I grow up

Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men" (NIV). Such words can cut, can't they? Put them to use. "Let the words of Christ, in all their richness, live in your hearts and make you wise. Use his words to teach and counsel each other" (Col. 3:16 NLT). Don't make a