Quotes About Service

When a church ceases to have a heart and ministry for its community, it is on the path toward death. Whenever local churches are mentioned in the New Testament, they are always exhorted to be other-centered.

When a church ceases to have a heart and ministry for its community, it is on the path toward death.

Did you get that? Vibrant and living churches look after the interests of others. They are concerned for their communities. They open the door for others.

Membership in the church is not country club membership. It's not about paying your dues and getting perks.

It's likely that every day presents an opportunity for you to practice radical hospitality to someone with whom you cross paths. There is no shortage of people who could use the fit of a caring, welcoming person in their life. How awesome would it be if, in a time of need, the first thing people would say is, "I need a Christian!" If you expect to be that person, you'll be surprised at how often the opportunities come along for you to show love through radical hospitality.

Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying, or meditating, or endeavoring something for the public good.

Whoever loves much, does much...

Nothing will hinder you more than thinking only about yourself.

Nothing, how little so ever it be, if it is suffered for God's sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God.

Do what pleases others, not yourself. â—Š Choose to do and have less rather than more. â—Š Be a servant; seek the lowest place. â—Š Pray to become all that God wants you to be.

Indeed it is not learning that makes a man holy and just, but a virtuous life makes him pleasing to God. I would rather feel contrition than know how to define it. For what would it profit us to know the whole Bible by heart and the principles of all the philosophers if we live without grace and the love of God? Vanity of vanities and all is vanity, except to love God and serve Him alone.

Est-ce faire beaucoup que de vous servir, vous que doivent servir toutes les créatures ? Cela doit me sembler peu de chose; mais ce qui me paraît grand et merveilleux, c'est que vous daigniez agréer le service d'une créature si pauvre et si misérable, et l'admettre parmi les serviteurs que vous aimez.

It's meaningless to live a long life if you think only about yourself, and give no thought to caring about others.

Cada día debemos renovar nuestro propósito y excitarnos a mayor fervor, como si hoy fuese el primer día de nuestra conversión, y decir: Señor, Dios mío, ayúdame en mi buen intento y en tu santo servicio, y dame gracia para que comience hoy perfectamente, porque no es nada cuanto hice hasta aquí. I Par. 14, 11

of the primitive Christians at Jerusalem

If thou knewest the whole Bible, and the sayings of all the philosophers, what should all this profit thee without the love and grace of God? Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, save to love God, and Him only to serve. That is the highest wisdom, to cast the world behind us, and to reach forward to the heavenly kingdom.

He who seeks anything but God alone and the salvation of his soul will find only trouble and grief, and he who does not try to become the least, the servant of all, cannot remain at peace for long. You have come to serve, not to rule. You must understand, too, that you have been called to suffer and to work, not to idle and gossip away your time. Here men are tried as gold in a furnace. Here no man can remain unless he desires with all his heart to humble himself before God.

He doth much who loveth much. He doth much who doth well. He doth well who ministereth to the public good rather than to his own.

How many perish through empty learning in this world, who care little for serving God.

For what would it profit us to know the whole Bible by heart and the principles of all the philosophers if we live without grace and the love of God? Vanity of vanities and all is vanity, except to love God and serve Him alone.

I should note that when Tom Reingold was at Bell Labs, he not only called and congratulated the submitter of every 1,000th request, he took them to lunch and used it as an opportunity to ask them how they would like to see service improved.

Most network providers do not sell latency, just bandwidth.

Shepherds of the flock should . . . seek the good of their flock, and every ruler the good of the people subject to him.