Quotes About Service

Service... Giving what you don't have to give. Giving when you don't need to give. Giving because you want to give.

What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who live it after we are gone?' Winston Churchill

Truth is amoral. So you said, but in serving your fine truth, invader, you make yourself immoral.

As a warrior, I am a man of conscience, and that conscience is directed by my faith in the Emperor.

Jake's father, Doc Polson, had tended to hundreds of scraped knees and bumped heads. He'd set four broken arms and fixed dozens of sprained ankles before people got used to hopping on and off the moving wagons. He'd also salved a couple of dozen scalds and burns, he'd sat up with a child with croup for three nights, and he'd even delivered two babies, with the help of Aunt May, the midwife.

Religion + Good Works = Good Works Solve for Religion.

Everything we do for God will be the overflow of intimacy with God.

The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

IF I HAVE ONE OPERATING PHILOSOPHY ABOUT LIFE, it is this: "Be cool to the pizza delivery dude; it's good luck." Four principles guide the pizza dude philosophy.

My faith is in the belief that sacrifice for others is inherently good and making the choice to do good is the gift of being human.

I used to be the errand boy for the Guardians of the Universe. It was a thankless job.

When organized religion organizes around the things Jesus would be pleased with, amazing things can happen.

God's house is now in the people of God wherever they are, whether it's in the parking lot, in a bowling alley, or in an office cubicle.

But when we understand that we are called to be the church, not just go to church, it changes our identity. No longer do we go to a building where religious activities happen and that is "church." We now are the church all week long.

With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom, and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice.

Next time you meet someone, try asking, "How are you making the world a better place?" rather than the normal, "What do you do?

People can disagree politically and philosophically on all the issues that confront our nation, but if more of our elected officials had served in causes other than their own advancement, I believe they would approach their jobs with less certainty in their own assumptions and more sympathy for the needs of others.

We live in debt to those who have served and died, a debt tallied in blood. And too often our political leaders who commit our young men, and now young women, into war do not take this truth into account with an adequate fullness of measure.

And that is how it was during World War II: There was a sense of service that permeated all of society, even down to young boys like me. I remember the rationing of food and materials. The idea that we all had to go without, that we were all asked to sacrifice in even small ways, created a sense of togetherness. It was everyone's war, and everyone was encouraged to participate.

This is the embodiment of heroic citizenship, a commitment to each other and to fixing problems. It is seeking solutions and not praise, progress and not personal aggrandizement. It is doing what is right for the sake of right.

Jesus commanded his followers to clothe the naked, shelter the homeless, and care for the sick. Making health care available to all seems like a no-brainer, Jesus-wise, among the most Christian projects a president, or a nation, could possible undertake.

It's more satisfying to be useful now than to be remembered later.

Once in a while, I like to polish my halo by taking on a case pro bono.

was taught to give back. In the village, the old way, the right way, the one way is to give back, always somehow, in some way to give back.