Quotes About Service

The church is unlike school. Simply, because you can't ask questions while the service is being delivered.

The greatest personalities have always been those who can identify opportunities and apply their great abilities for the common good of the whole nation.

The hospital is a playground for doctors.

The king can serve the citizens, but the citizens will be forced into servitude to the crown.

The prayer of the true soldier is not to die peacefully, but to leave the country and its citizens with peace of mind.

The real definition of politics is to build the nation and not a single political party.

There is no freedom without sacrifice. Same as there is no peace without someone taking the lead.

To become a leader, you must also be prepared to act like the best slave who never rests or sleeps.

True leadership is a combination of service and servitude.

True leadership is service and sometimes bondage. Thus, Jesus ends up washing the feet of his pupils. The master acting as a slave.

You can still reach the level of the angels by doing great deeds in your daily life.

True potential and fulfillment in life is not what is accomplished, but who benefits from them. Your

resurrection doesn't mean escaping from the world; it means mission to the world based on Jesus's lordship over the world.

think about the way God rules. He doesn't do it by sending in the tanks. He does it by calling servants.

The question for us, as we learn again and again the lessons of hope for ourselves, is how we can be for the world what Jesus was for Thomas: how we can show to the world the signs of love, how we can reach out our hands in love, wounded though they will be if the love has been true, how we can invite those whose hearts have grown shrunken and shriveled with sorrow and disbelief to come and see what love has done, what love is doing, in our communities, our neighborhoods:

And with all this we lift up our eyes and realize that when the New Testament tells us the meaning of the cross, it gives us not a system, but a story; not a theory, but a meal and an act of humble service; not a celestial mechanism for punishing sin and taking people to heaven, but an earthly story of a human Messiah who embodies and incarnates Israel's God and who unveils his glory in bringing his kingdom to earth as in heaven.

Art is love creating new worlds; justice is love rolling up its sleeves to heal the old one.

He might have been a wafer in the hands Of priests this day, or music from the lips: Of red-robed choristers, instead he slips Away from church, shakes off our linen bands To don his apron with a nurse: he grips And lifts a stretcher, soothes with gentle hands The frail flesh of the dying, gives them hope, Breathes with the breathless, lends them strength to cope.

the church doesn't exist in order to provide a place where people can pursue their private spiritual agendas and develop their own spiritual potential. Nor does it exist in order to provide a safe haven in which people can hide from the wicked world and ensure that they themselves arrive safely at an otherworldly destination.

Theology, after all, was made for the sake of the church, not the church for theology. I

humans were made to be "vicegerents." That is, they were to act on God's behalf within his world. But that is only possible and can only escape serious and dangerous distortion when worship precedes action.

This is why too for every theologian who puzzles over abstract definitions of "atonement," there are thousands who will say, with Paul, "The son of God loved me and gave himself for me"—and who will then get on with the job of radiating that same love out into the world.

Despite what skeptics and critics sometimes say, followers of Jesus have transformed the world in all sorts of ways in the last two thousand years. It was Jesus's followers, after all, who went about caring for the poor, tending the sick, and providing education for people of all sorts (not only the rich or the elite). There is no reason why Jesus's followers should not continue this work and every reason why they should.

But there is no such thing as a small errand in the kingdom of God.