Quotes About Dedication

We saw what a train of Indian Sepoys, Johanna men, Nassick boys, and Shupanga canoemen, accompanied Dr. Livingstone when he started from Zanzibar in 1866 to enter upon his last discoveries: of all these, five only could answer to the roll-call as they handed over the dead body of their leader to his countrymen on the shore whither they had returned, and this after eight years' desperate service.

The Proverbs 31 woman is not the model of a perfect woman. She is the model of a committed woman under God.

Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.

Whatever you do, do it so well that people looking on will feel that the task was reserved especially for you by God Himself.

Strive to be faithful to that which God has called you.

You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.

God didn't call me to be successful, He called me to be faithful.

It [Jamaat-e-Islami] is not a missionary organisation or a body of preachers or evangelists, but an organisation of God's troopers.

God is not looking for more stars; He's looking for more servants.

God does not require that we be successful only that we be faithful.

A Christian minister is a person who in a peculiar sense is not his own; he is the servant of God, and therefore ought to be wholly devoted to Him.

You'll never come second by putting God first.

As soon as I came to believe there was a God, I understood that I could not do otherwise than live only for him.

At the back of it there lies the central citadel of obstinacy: I will not give up my right to myself--the thing God intends you to give up if ever you are going to be a disciple of Jesus Christ.

God is missed through laziness, indifference and unwillingness.

Believe that none of the effort you put into coming closer to God is ever wasted - even if in the end you don't achieve what you are striving for.

You've got to stay humble and hungry. Just keep working and thank God you have a chance to play in the NBA.

Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.

There is nothing small in the service of God.

All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.

I thank God that my body has been able to handle this kind of workload. I don't know if I will ever be like Lorenzo White, but that's the goal I'm trying to get to.

Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because it is our vocation to intercede to God for everyone.

People wonder why they have so little of God when God has so little of them.

God's call doesn't register in a vacuum; only a person who is committed to doing God's will can receive a call.