Quotes About Service

it's your actual act of service and going out of your way that makes you stand apart from everybody else.

Codependent behaviors are often seen in women, who are socialized to take on the ultra-nurturer role, or dismiss their own needs in favor of serving the needs of others.

So many people there are so concerned about being socially conscious and environmentally aware, but they don't give a second thought to how they treat the guy washing their car or cutting their grass.

What clients want more than anything is to know that we're more interested in helping them than we are in maintaining our revenue source.

The path to significance is bigger than the individual.

First, a disciple is called to walk with Christ; they profess faith in Jesus Christ. Second, a disciple is equipped to live like Christ; they are engaged in a process of spiritual growth and transformation. Third, a disciple is sent to work for Christ; they serve the Lord.

THE BIBLE TELLS US, "Go and make disciples … baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit" (Matthew 28:19). Sometimes we get this confused with, "Go and make workers … browbeating them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

Francis Schaeffer wrote, "A ministry such as teaching the Bible in a college is no higher calling intrinsically than being a businessman or doing something else.

I fight them every time I bandage the blackened eye of a woman, every time I remove shrapnel from a bomb victim. That's my war. That's the war I'm fighting.

When you go home Tell them of us, and say For your tomorrow, We gave our today.

But sometimes the best help a person can find is helping someone else.

I am at your service, my lady," I said, standing and releasing her hand. For the first time in my life I understood the true purpose of this sort of formal greeting. It gives you a script to follow when you have absolutely no idea what to say.

You did not want things for yourself. That made you small. That kept you safe. That meant you could move smoothly through the world without upsetting every applecart you came across. And if you were careful, if you were a proper part of things, then you could help. You mended what was cracked. You tended to the things you found askew. And you trusted that the world in turn would brush you up against the chance to eat. It was the only graceful way to move. All else was vanity and pride.

sometimes the best help a person can find is helping someone else.

In a normal bar, I would say tip the bartender and people would give me money. Here, I say tip the bartender and someone tries to knock me over. -John Murphy, Bartender at

The smallest deed is greater than the grandest intention.

But his service was to art, not to church or country. His beads, dungarees, and sheepskin vest represented not the costume but an expression of freedom.

I am a mom as well as a senator!

It was in that way that she has best served God.

If it has the potential to do good, then we should do it

To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.

the past few years I have approached music ministry with the mind-set of a pastor first, and a musician second.

It isn't good if it doesn't hurt, so when we do good, we are willing—in fact, eager—to experience pain.

When you bring your car into the shop, you're charged for "parts and labor," and you've never questioned for a second that the more labor it takes, the more you have to pay. Indeed, the relationship between effort and financial cost is so tight that we often talk about our everyday efforts in economic terms