Quotes About Service

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.

If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace.

Little goat, when you are able, Come and clear away my table.

When paying charity, for example, one should smile and be humble, allowing the hand of the indigent to be above the giver's hand. It is a privilege to be in a position to offer charity and an honor to fulfill a divine obligation.

Our survival depends on not just what we can get in life but also what we can give

One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire help to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.

One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.

Now I shall be of some use in the world, as every one ought to be; it is the only way to be happy.

To be of use to the world is the only way to be happy.

But shouldn't all of us on earth give the best we have to others and offer whatever is in our power?

Sometimes Dr Reichhardt would say, 'We live not for ourselves, but for others. What we make of ourselves we make not for ourselves, but for others…

We live not for ourselves, but for others. What we make of ourselves we make not for ourselves, but for others…

A long, healthy, and happy life is the result of making contributions, of having meaningful projects that are personally exciting and contribute to and bless the lives of others.

What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.

At the end of June 1783, Monroe's first year of government service came to an end. Although he had accomplished nothing, he had done no less than his colleagues - which is exactly what Virginia planters had elected them to do.

I have always been taught… that every man is divinely called to his work, if that work is for the good of all men. His faithfulness or unfaithfulness to the call is revealed in the motives that prompt him to choose his field.

Public utility must be the first consideration.

I can't promise you that I will bring you all home alive. But this I swear, before you and before Almighty God, that when we go into battle, I will be the first to set foot on the field, and I will be the last to step off, and I will leave no one behind. Dead or alive, we will all come home together. So help me, God." ~ Lt Gen Hal Moore, (Ret) 'We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young: Ia Drang-The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam

The most precious commodity with which the Army deals is the individual soldier who is the heart and soul of our combat forces.       ââ'¬â€GENERAL J. LAWTON

One of the cost of holding a Federal office was geographic isolation in the nation's capital.

My definition of a true religion is one that does good in the world. It tries to find ways to help people be themselves. It does not try to shape people to be what we think they should be, then break spiritual or man-made laws to accomplish that. The sign of a good religion is that it helps the people grow to become more godlike, to be capable of more love and mercy---for themselves as well as for others.

That's what it means to be a servant of Christ. You get your hands dirty among his earthly-and earthy-people. But you do it because you have life in your hands to give them. pg 25

Reliable sources narrate how in his dotage the elderly apostle John, no longer able to ambulate or preach, was carried into Christian assemblies where his exhortation consisted of a mere five words which he simply repeated—the main theme of his first New Testament epistle: "Little children, love one another" (1 John 3:18).

The fact that so many young men and women enter the teaching profession shows that there are still some people willing to scrape along on comparatively little money for the pleasure of following an occupation in which they delight.