Quotes About Service

to love God means to devote our intellect to the worship and service of God, to acquire knowledge about him and his commands, and to obey all biblical precepts.

Christ does for us what we are too cowardly and unfaithful to do.

Any act of kindness from God is solely due to his mercy offered through the covenant we have with him in Christ, and not as an obligatory payment for our service.

Rather than clinging close to the Lord, and resolve by the grace and power of God to do better than those who have fallen, and even to help restore them, they will use anything as an excuse to stop serving God and doing what he requires of them.

Above all, it tells us that man is to serve and worship God, that man is lost until he finds his place in the Creator through Jesus Christ, and that those who know God can possess the assurance that he has found the source, the purpose, and the rock of his existence.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be There is something inside me, what can it be

What preys on my mind is simply this one question: what am I good for, could I not be of service or use in some way?

Sua alma, seu espírito, não estão a serviço de seu pincel, mas seu pincel é que está a serviço de seu espírito. Assim também a tela é que tem medo do bom pintor e não o pintor da tela.

Don't be thanking me," he says. "You shouldn't expect a thank-you in life just for doing the right thing. That's something the politicians will never understand. Priests too.

You shouldn't expect a thank-you in life just for doing the right thing. That's something the politicians will never understand.

God gave me gifts so that I could use them to help his people. I

But you remember this, boy. Ain't nothin' better than bein' a leader. Ain't nothin' better than knowin' somethin' you done has made life better for folks.

Mayla, we need to find you a place to serve." "I already serve," I told him. "I do it at night. The pay's not great, but the tips are better than some other places I could name." "That's not what I meant," he chuckled.

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

The householder by digging tanks, by planting trees on the roadsides, by establishing rest-houses for men and animals, by making roads and building bridges, goes towards the same goal as the greatest Yogi.

To work we have the right, but not to the fruits thereof:" Leave the fruits alone. Why care for results? If you wish to help a man, never think what that man's attitude should be towards you. If you want to do a great or a good work, do not trouble to think what the result will be.

sacrifice your life for the good of others—this is my wish and blessing.

Once, back home, I decided to count how many days out of my twenty months in Afghanistan I'd been on combat missions. 217 days. And I'm still paying the price for every one of those days.

I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

I realized that today I truly understood my purpose as Ellie: not just to Find people but to save them.

Dog' is 'God' spelled backward; you know that. That's why you're here, to help the nuns do God's work.

a dog's job was to do what people wanted.

For any mental or physical pain or suffering, regardless of how severe it might be, can in great part be neutralized by the satisfaction and joy of trying to help others. And that's worth living for.

Here is my creed: I believe in one God, the Creator of the universe. That he governs it by his providence. That he ought to be worshipped. That the most acceptable service we render to him is in doing good to his other children. That the soul of man is immortal, and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this. These I take to be the fundamental points in all sound religion. --Benjamin Franklin