Quotes about Service
My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
— John F. Kennedy
God has created me to do some definite service. He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission. I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good; I shall do His work.
— John Henry Newman
It is beautiful in a picture to wash the disciples' feet; but the sands of the real desert have no lustre in them to compensate for the servile nature of the occupation.
— John Henry Newman
If we do not serve what coheres and endures, we serve what disintegrates and destroys.
— Wendell Berry
People who minister worldwide to protect and conserve the environment are of no lower status than those who minister to plant churches.
— Leonard Sweet
Perfectionism is the counterfeit of excellence. Excellence is Kingdom, while perfectionism is religion. What ever you do, do it with all you might, and as unto the Lord. That is excellence.
— Bill Johnson
Excellence means representing the reputation of Christ well. It means doing all things as best as you can...
— Stephen Kendrick
If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Christianity does NOT replace the technical. When he tells you to feed the hungry and doesn't give you lessons in cookery. If you want to learn THAT, you must go to a cook rather than a Christian.
— CS Lewis
Ask, could my gifts, education, career, or experience be used to spread the gospel where it's needed most?
— David Platt
The missionary experience is part of Christian formation and it is important for adolescents and young people to be able to live it personally.
— Pope Benedict XVI
The Church exists by mission, just as a fire exists by burning. Where there is no mission there is no Church; and where there is neither Church nor mission, there is no faith.
— Emil Brunner