Quotes About Service

He was conscientious, he did his duty as he understood it; but he was no seaman.

But injustice is a rule of the service, as you know very well; and since you have to have a good deal of undeserved abuse, you might just as well have it from your friends.

In the First Book of Chronicles Chapter 24 Verse 10…

As courageous Christian men, we're going to suffer. There's no way around it, because suffering is choosing difficulty when you could escape it. To be male is to stand in gaps you could flee, but if you did, others would be more than hurt. They would be harmed. And when we become Gap People, a goal of Promise Keepers, we move away from nice and into the good.

They all held that man is meant to serve God.

Mr. Hamilton? At your service. I stopped at your cabin for you. I wasn't there.

When he got to the shoe putting-on stage he called Hosain again. Putting on and taking off his own shoes and boots were activities at which he drew the line if there was a man available to perform these services. He had learned to draw the line in Muzzafirabad where his first CO, Colonel Gawstone, advised him never to stoop if he could help it. The climate wasn't right for it. Mrs. Gawstone had stooped to pick up a glove and keeled right over and never got up. They had buried her the next day.

mission is defined as what you do to join in God's world-renewing project.

The Peace Corps was innocent and inefficient

Whether we are orderlies or orchestra conductors, either we befriend our work-- seeing in it the opportunity for moral excellence and a continual outpouring of heavenly grace-- or we become its victim.

Sarayu: "Mack, if anything matters than everything matters. Because you are important, everything you do is important. Every time you forgive, the universe changes; every time you reach out and touch a heart or a life, the world changes; with every kindness and service, seen or unseen, my purposes are accomplished and nothing will ever be the same again" (235).

Paper Matches My aunts washed dishes while the uncles squirted each other on the lawn with garden hoses. Why are we in here, I said, and they are out there? That's the way it is, said Aunt Hetty, the shriveled-up one. I have the rages that small animals have, being small, being animal. Written on me was a message, "At Your Service," like a book of paper matches. One by one we were taken out and struck. We come bearing supper, our heads on fire.

Instead of answering your question directly I shall quote from the Indian poet Tagore: "I slept and dreamt that life was joy/ I awoke and saw that life was service/I acted and behold, service was joy." In fact, through my work I discover life, people, and everything which happens around us.

What is a Gift? A Gift is your way of serving the world.

Wherever you it is that you want to see the face of God, there you will see it. And if you don't want to see it, it doesn't matter, so long as you are performing good works.

Because a warrior of light knows that he has duties and responsibilities...

I slept and dreamt that life was joy/ I awoke and saw that life was service/I acted and behold, service was joy." In fact, through my work I discover life, people, and everything which happens around us.

I ask all those who hope to one day work for the good of humanity: never forget that even if you deliver up your body to be burned, you gain nothing if you have not Love. Nothing!

Nothing is menial where there is love.

What shall I do? she asked in a small voice. Forget your own self, he said. But all these years, she urged, I have so carefully fulfilled my duty. Always with the thought of your own freedom in your mind, he said. She could not deny it. She sat motionless, her hands folded on the pearl-gray satin of her robe. Direct me, she said at last. Instead of your own freedom, think how you can free others, he said gently. She lifted her head. From yourself, he said still gently.

The best thing in the world for each of us is that which we can best do, because it gives us the feeling of being useful. That's happiness.

I wish to produce the fruit of my brain for my country's good. A mere dog may fill the earth with the fruit of his body!

Just think about it. As midwives, we meet wildly interesting people and stay up all night with them. We ask them questions about their sex lives, eat their food, feel inside their bodies, snoop around their houses, drink champagne at all hours, and best of all, we get to catch delicious little naked, wet babies. What I can't figure out is, why doesn't everyone want to be a midwife?

Taking the . . . vow to help others implies that instead of holding our own individual territory and defending it tooth and nail, we become open to the world that we are living in. It means we are willing to take on greater responsibility, immense responsibility. In fact, it means taking a big chance. —CHÖGYAM TRUNGPA RINPOCHE