Quotes about Service

If you love and serve men, you cannot by any hiding or stratagem escape the remuneration. Secret retributions are always restoring the level, when disturbed, of the divine justice. It is impossible to tilt the beam. All the tyrants and proprietors and monopolists of the world in vain set their shoulders to heave the bar. Settles forevermore the ponderous equator to its line, and man and mote, and star and sun, must range to it, or be pulverized by the recoil.[11]

I believe that Jesus would have given His life for just one person. Jesus emptied Himself, He humbled Himself and He so yielded Himself to His Father's love that He had no ambition of His own. He was not looking to build an empire, He did not want praise or adulation or to impress people with who or how many followed Him. He stopped over and over again for just one person, for just one life.

A new breed of ministers is rising up who will not wear out for the gospel. They are so caught up in passion, unity, and fullness that they run out and say, "World, here I come!" If they go into places where they get shot at, they are thrilled. If they do not get shot at, they are thrilled. If the place they go is filthy, they are thrilled. If it is clean, they are thrilled. Jesus is the joy set before them. He is their exceedingly great reward.

When I held Beatrice, I caught scabies and lice. But it didn't matter. My only goal is to love more.

Even if I could only bring Him one little grape, I knew that grape was precious to Him because I had worked my whole life for it.

Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community.

The reality is that the Lord never calls the qualified; He qualifies the called.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

As we serve our jobs we serve the world.