Quotes About Service

The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and bishops, who have the care of souls, are at the service of the people of God.

In the fulfillment of your duties, let your intentions be so pure that you reject from your actions any other motive than the glory of God and the salvation of souls.

Thoughts about myself hinder my usefulness to God.

Readiness for God means that we are ready to do the tiniest little thing or the great big thing, it makes no difference

Those who have been used of God had to pay a terrific price.

If you and I are to be used in our sphere as D.L. Moody was used in his, we must put all that we have and all that we are in the hands of God, for Him to use as He will.

Living for God's glory is the greatest achievement we can accomplish with our lives.

Nothing else you do will ever matter as much as helping people establish an eternal relationship with God.

A ministry doesn't have to be perfect for God to use and bless it.

I've learned one important thing about God's gifts - what we do with them is our gift to Him.

God is not greater if you reverence Him, but you are greater if you serve Him.

Go to the poor there you will find God.

To worship God in spirit is the service and homage of the heart, and implies fear of God and trust in Him.

If I obey Jesus Christ, the redemption of God will flow through me to the lives of others, because behind the deed of obedience is the reality of Almighty God.

There is no limit to what God can do through us if we are a yielded and purified people.

If God calls you to be a minister, don't stoop to becoming a king.

The sovereign electing grace of God chooses us to repentance, to faith, and afterwards to holiness of living, to Christian service, to zeal, and to devotion.

I can only become perfectly free by serving the will of God.

We must endeavor to have God reign sovereignly in us, and then in others. The trouble with me is that I take more care to have Him reign in others than in myself.

...you can render to God and humanity no greater service than to make the most of yourself.

If they aren't going to advance God's kingdom, I don't care to help them advance their kingdom.

True leadership means to receive power from God and use it under God's rule to serve people in God's way.

God has given me so much. He expects so much out of me.

When you surrender completely to God, as the only truth worth having, you find yourself in service of all that exists. It becomes your joy and recreation. You never tire of serving others.