Quotes About Service

When God gave Christ to this world, He gave the best He had, and He wants us to do the same.

You don't build it for yourself. You know what the people want and you build it for them.

May your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.

I recognize that not all of us may have the same abilities and talents in sharing the gospel. But I want to keep the heat on all of us for getting the good news out there.

You have more fun and enjoy more financial success when you stop trying to get what you want and start helping other people get what they want.

I love having a master. I have no problem serving my director. That's my job. I want to make them happy.

To those of you who are leading LifeGroups, I want you to know, you are the heroes of our mission.

Life is a huge privilege and opportunity. God has trusted you with gifts and abilities, which he wants you to use.

The reason God can't use you more than He wants to may well be that you are not prepared.

People may come to our communities because they want to serve the poor; they will only stay once they have discovered that they themselves are poor.

Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don't want to do

Giving people what they want isn't just good radio; it's also the right way to run a country.

Life is so simple, really. Think through what people want, watch what others fail to give them, and provide it. Then bill'em.

When the customer makes contact, he does not want a quote. He wants a commitment.

highest purpose as humans and followers of Jesus—is to be a conduit of God's love.

The legitimate object of government," he later asserted, "is 'to do for the people what needs to be done, but which they can not, by individual effort, do at all, or do so well, for themselves.

If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it.

If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it.

I didn't join the army to shoot Americans. If I wanted to shoot Americans I'd have joined the police.

In monasteries of old, the monk's dharma, his purpose in life, was said to be this: to support the choir. In Latin, propter chorum. Literally, his life was lived "in support of the choir." He was not a soloist. He was not a diva. He was part of a magnificent whole.

I do not give lectures or a little charity. When I give I give myself.

He saw that true living was living for the sake of others. He was freed from the bondage of his awkward, inept, fearful self.

My life does not belong to me." Chardin would have said, "My life belongs to God." Katherine found it closer to the truth to say, "My life belongs to the world.

[The key to] life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.