Quotes About Service

What can we do for the world while we live? Many men and women would wish to serve mankind, but they are perplexed and their power seems infinitesimal. Despair seizes them; those who have the strongest passion suffer most from the sense of impotence, and are most liable to spiritual ruin through lack of hope.

The accusation of metaphysics has become in philosophy something like the accusation of being a security risk in the public service. I do not for my part know what is meant by the word 'metaphysics'. The only definition I have found that fits all cases is: 'a philosophical opinion not held by the present author'.

It is the great reward of losing youth that one finds onseself able to be of use;

In former days, men sold themselves to the Devil to acquire magical powers. Nowadays they acquire these powers from science, and find themselves compelled to become devils. There is no hope for the world unless power can be tamed, and brought into the service, not of this or that group of fanatical tyrants, but of the whole human race, white and yellow and black, fascist and communist and democrat; for science has made it inevitable that all must live or all must die. 1

My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.

In Africa people learn to serve each other. They live on credit balances of little favours that they give and may, one day, ask to have returned. In any country almost empty of men, 'love thy neighbour' is less a pious injunction than a rule for survival. If you meet one in trouble, you stop — another time he may stop for you.

I think that love is more like a light that you carry. At first childish happiness keeps it lighted and after that romance. Then motherhood lights it and then duty . . . and maybe after that sorrow. You wouldn't think that sorrow could be a light, would you, dearie? But it can. And then after that, service lights it. Yes. . . . I think that is what love is to a woman . . . a lantern in her hand.

Everyone needs to find the one thing that brings out her passion. It's what we do and share with the world that matters. I believe it's important that we leave our communities in better shape than we found them.

Trying to know God and serve Him before we come to love Him is exhausting.

Acknowledge God. Acknowledging God first thing every morning transforms my day. I often begin my day by reconfirming His authority over me and submitting to Him as Lord in advance of my daily circumstances. I try to accept the words of Joshua 24:15 as a personal daily challenge: "Choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve.

God has a task for you—one He planned very long ago and suited for our present generation. Remember you are not responsible for completing anyone else's task, just yours. God desires for us to encourage one another in our tasks (see Heb. 10:24–25), but we are responsible only for completing our own.

To extend hands of service without hearts of love is virtually meaningless.

God doesn't work for us; we work for God.

He will not forget your work and the love you showed for His name when you served the saints—and you continue to serve them. Hebrews 6:10

For I have come down from heaven, not to do My will, but the will of Him who sent Me. John 6:38

We are His creation—created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared ahead of time that we should walk in them. Ephesians 2:10

Through the proof of this service, they will glorify God for your obedience to the confession of the gospel of Christ. 2 Corinthians 9:13

I urge you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God. Romans 12:1

Help me to be convinced that because One died for all, therefore all died. Help me to realize and fully appreciate the fact that because You died for all, we who live should no longer live for ourselves but for You who died for us and was raised again (2 Cor. 5:14—15).

acknowledge the God of your father, and serve him with wholehearted devotion and with a willing mind, for the Lord searches every heart and understands every motive behind the thoughts. (1 Chron. 28:9)

If you offer yourself to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted one, then your light will shine in the darkness. Isaiah 58:10

Surely the greatest callings of God are the gravest as well.

This is how we have come to know love: He laid down His life for us. 1 John 3:16

There for the taking. Simply put, we're meant to be agents of good in the world, not professional closers for Jesus. But make no mistake: when we endure and do good, that will witness.