Quotes about Service
The knowledge that I have acquired must not remain imprisoned in my brain. I owe it to many men and women to do something with it. I feel the need to pay back what was given to me. Call it gratitude.
— Elie Wiesel
It will cost you everything to follow the Lord. And it will cost you even more to be His man for this hour.
— AW Tozer
I believe serious progress (in the abolition of war) can be achieved only when men become organized on an international scale and refuse, as a body, to enter military or war service.
— Albert Einstein
No man need fear death, he need fear only that he may die without having known his greatest power: the power of his free will to give his life for others
— Albert Schweitzer
A truly obedient man does not discriminate between one thing and another, since his only aim is to execute faithfully whatever may be assigned to him.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
We want men to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation's welfare than gold and silver, fame or popularity.
— Brigham Young
Man cannot choose his duties.
— George Eliot
The General hopes and trusts that every officer and man will endeavor to live and act as becomes a Christian soldier defending the dearest rights and liberties of his country.
— George Washington
ComprendÃ
— St. Therese of Lisieux
If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed. Admiral Bill McRaven (Navy SEAL)
— Terri Savelle Foy
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies
— Tertullian
But how will a Christian engage in war—indeed, how will a Christian even engage in military service during peacetime—without the sword, which the Lord has taken away? For although soldiers had approached John to receive instructions and a centurion believed, this does not change the fact that afterward, the Lord, by disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier. Under no circumstances should a true Christian draw the sword.
— Tertullian