Quotes About Service

Then the king will say to those on his right, "Come, you who are blessed by my Father. Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and you welcomed me, naked and you clothed me, ill and you cared for me." (Mt 25:34–36)

I came down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me. (Jn 6:38)

One of the lesser-known contributions of the great Harriet Tubman was the devotion of her life after the war to a similar project. The woman who personally led three hundred slaves to freedom, who was a spy and "general" for the Union, spent her final years trying to establish the John Brown Home for the Aged. When the government refused to give her a full veteran's pension, the former general sold fruit and had a biography published to raise money for the institution.

To educate is a great task but it is to put our personal effort at the service of the next generation for the benefit of all humanity. Our effort in education is what will be left of ourselves in life.

Deep-rooted happiness may require a sense of purpose. If I don't feel that I am in some small way contributing to the greater good, holding on to happiness is like carrying water in my hands.

What I love about nursing is the way it legitimizes caring. In fact, I am paid to care.

Thank you," she whispered, "for keeping yourself alive, soldier." "You're welcome," he whispered back.

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along do your best and when you have to - and you will - leave, and be something else.

Outside of a person's love, the most sacred thing that they can give is their labor." -- James Carville

Here is an old tradition badly in need of return: You have to earn your way into politics. You should go have a life, build a string of accomplishments, then enter public service....

What do you think of your job as? What service are you performing in society? What's the point of what you do?

Scandal is a community service and a free entertainment at that; witnesses generally feel obliged to pay admission with sympathy.

Duty is what no-one else will do at the moment.

Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure short of total abstention.

According to W.H. Auden, "We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for, I don't know.

True Gospel ministry is not a party, but a battle for souls.

we are qualified for Christian service by our praying not our preaching, by our desire to worship him and not our workload on his behalf, by knowing Jesus personally and not just by knowing a lot of interesting things about him. If you lose God's presence you lose everything, but if you know his presence you already have everything you will ever need.

The most powerful thing that can happen in the place of prayer is that you yourself become the prayer. You leave the prayer room as Jesus's hands and feet on earth. This is what it means to pray continually: to see with the eyes of Jesus and to hear with his ears with every waking moment.

Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.

But Washington's long and faithful service stands in marked distinction from Jefferson's mere election. Washington actually served with great fidelity. We do not want to read anything into this other than what the facts tell us, and the facts are that George Washington's service as a vestryman is commensurate with the highest commitment to the Christianity proposed by the Anglican Church.