Quotes about Service

As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I know that the men and women of our intelligence community put their lives on the line every day, and they do very dangerous work to keep our country safe.

God gave men and women work to do in the Garden before the Fall.

Together with the Works of Mercy, feeding, clothing and sheltering our brothers, we must indoctrinate.

Well, today, the diocese is more than ever a microcosm.

I want to use what God has done in my life to comfort me and to minister to people.

It's amazing how many introverts go into the ministry.

It's amazing how many introverts go into the ministry. It's amazing how many people go into the ministry who don't really like to be with people.

The Christian liturgy draws us deeper and deeper into the innermost recesses of mystery, but then lands us back out on the street. We are not allowed to stay at the altar. We have to go back out to committee meetings, traffic jams, laundry, dirty diapers—where we will be enacting what we have encountered in the liturgy.

May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.

If you serve humanity, you serve humanity's God.

The Hindus are not looking for us to send them men who will build schools and hospitals, although those things are good and useful in themselves--and perhaps very badly needed in India: they want to know if we have any saints to send them.

When humility delivers a man from attachment to his own works and his own reputation, he discovers that perfect joy is possible only when we have completely forgotten ourselves. And it is only when we pay no more attention to our own deeds and our own reputation and our own excellence that we are at last completely free to serve God in perfection for His own sake alone.