Quotes About Service

God doesn't look at how much we do, but with how much love we do it.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you . . . yes, it is Christmas every time you smile at your brother and offer him your hand." Philemon

Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.

Holiness is doing Godís will with a smile.

Love, to be real, must cost - it must hurt - it must empty us of self.

We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.

When you look at the inner workings of electrical things, you see wires. Until the current passes through them, there will be no light. That wire is you and me. The current is God. We have the power to let the current pass through us, use us, to produce the light of the world, Jesus, in us. Or we can refuse to be used and allow darkness to spread.

One must really have suffered oneself to help others.

Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear.

Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love.

I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, "How many good things have you done in your life?" Rather he will ask, "How much love did you put into what you did?"

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by "I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.

Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you.

A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your weakness.

May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.

Work without love is slavery.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.

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