Quotes About Service

We have become so engrossed in the work of the Lord that we have forgotten the Lord of the work.

Beware of any work for God that causes or allows you to avoid concentrating on Him.

I work hard in social work, public relations, and raising the Grimaldi heirs.

People call me a saint and I think, I have to work harder. Because a saint would be a great thing to be.

I've never had a problem with a dumb client. There is no such thing as a bad client. Part of our job is to do good work and get the client to accept it.

We need to rediscover the idea of the common good and work together to build a home.

The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.

Make sure that you let God's grace work in your souls by accepting whatever He gives you, and giving Him whatever He takes from you. True holiness consists in doing God's work with a smile.

Solid, lasting missionary work is done on our knees.

Work builds and refines character, creates beauty, and is the instrument of our service to one another and to God.

Here on earth, God's work must surely be our own.

As God's children, we are not to be observers; we're to participate actively in the Lord's work. Spectators sit and watch, but we are called to use our spiritual gifts and serve continually.

Evangelism without social work is deficient; social work without evangelism is impotent.

In our good works nothing is our own.

Missionary activity is not so much the work of the church as simply the Church at work.

I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.

What an encouragement to realize that God has reserved you and me for a special task in His great work. In His hands we're not only useful, but priceless.

Lord Jesus, I am weary in Thy work, but not of it. If I have not yet finished my course, let me go and speak for Thee once more in the field, seal Thy truth, and come home to die.

May your hands be an extension of your heart and may you do the work of love with them.

I am not such an egotist as to believe that God has spared me because I am I. I believe there is work for me to do and that I am spared to do it, just as you are.

It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do God's work in our own way.

God buries His workmen, but not His work.

The joy of Jesus will be my strength - it will be in my heart. Every person I meet will see it in my work; my walk, my prayer - in everything.

The aim of poetry and the poet is finally to be of service, to ply the effort of the individual into the larger work of the community as a whole.