Quotes About Service

That we may give our body and our blood over to suffering and pain, like Christ - not for Self, but to give harvests of peace and justice to our People.

Our Vocation is full of joy and peace in the Holy Spirit.

I had never imagined myself, nor aspired to be, a member of a royal family. I wanted to be in the Peace Corps, not a princess!

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war.

True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.

Every meal should be prepared with love and eaten in peace, because its purpose is to strengthen us for the service of Love.

It's better to send in the Peace Corps than the Marine Corps.

Wealth and honor, benefits and blessings shall enrich my life; poverty and failures, grief and anxiety shall help fulfill it. In my life, I will serve heaven and earth; in death I will find peace.

To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.

It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living.

Concern yourselves more with the needs of others, with the needs of all humanity, and you'll have peace of mind.

We work for peace every time we exercise authority with wisdom and authentic love.

The dedicated ever enjoy Supreme Peace. Therefore, live only to serve.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1, 2006.

I want to be anywhere in the world that I'm needed. I want to spread a message of peace and love throughout the world.

For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war.

Happiness is the peace of mind that comes from feeling that I am living a worthy life in the company of people I love and in the service of something bigger than myself.

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

You save your soul by saving someone else's body.

The surest way of finding peace of mind is that which helps the greatest number of others to find it

People have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves. Finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered.

Peace is not something you wish for, it is something you make, something you are, something you do, and something you give away.

It is getting to the point where the mark of international distinction and service to humanity is no longer the Nobel Peace Price, but an espionage indictment from the US Department of Justice.