Quotes about Service
There are a lot of people doing social justice things, which is great. But we can't just say, 'Here's some food. Here's some stuff.' We have to be able to give the gospel, share the hope and have a real heart for that.
— Jeremy Camp
No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.
— Calvin Coolidge
Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left.
— Robert Byrne
Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Humble yourself, and you will find that Love is spreading a carpet of flowers beneath your feet.
— Hannah Hurnard
In serving the poor, one serves humanity.In serving mankind, one serves equity.In serving goodness, one serves God.In serving the Creator, one serves himself.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Take my heart and squeeze it out over the face of Your Bride, the Church.
— Catherine of Siena
Notice that, in making ourselves available, we are not doing God any favors. We give ourselves for God's use to benefit creation, not to benefit God.
— Miroslav Volf
Virtuous theologians work as God's stewards building God's home (1 Cor. 3:9), not masters building their own little empires.
— Miroslav Volf
We need to learn how to deny ourselves, so we can do that which does not come naturally—to truly love God and others.
— Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Success in life depends upon happiness, and happiness is found in no other way than through SERVICE that is rendered in a spirit of love. Napoleon Hill
— Napoleon Hill