Quotes about Service
The Christian sees the world as a transitional home badly in need of rehab, and we are active agents in that project.
— Philip Yancey
I do "good works" for my wife not in order to earn credit but to express my love for her. Likewise, God wants me to serve "in the new way of the Spirit": not out of compulsion but out of desire.
— Philip Yancey
Fulfillment comes not in pursuit of happiness, but rather in pursuit of service.
— Philip Yancey
God's gifts are best used when we give them away in serving those who have less.
— Philip Yancey
The phrase "the body of Christ," expresses well what we are called to do: to represent in flesh what Christ is like, especially to those in need. The
— Philip Yancey
When I ask, "Tell me the first word that comes to your mind when I say Christian," not one time has someone suggested the word love. Yet without question that is the proper biblical answer.
— Philip Yancey
We in the body of Christ are called to show love when God seems not to.
— Philip Yancey
Humility is the real Christian virtue," says Nouwen. "When we come to realize that . . . only God saves, then we are free to serve, then we can live truly humble lives.
— Philip Yancey
Christianity offers the further insight that true fulfillment comes, not through ego satisfaction, but through service to others.
— Philip Yancey
From Jesus I learn that, whatever activism I get involved in, it must not drive out love and humility, or otherwise I betray the kingdom of heaven. The Jesus I Never Knew (244 — 45)
— Philip Yancey
God is present in the hungry, the homeless, the sick, and the imprisoned, as Jesus claimed in Matthew 25, and we serve God when we serve them.
— Philip Yancey
He had not come primarily to heal the world's cells, but to heal its souls.
— Philip Yancey