Quotes about Service

To love others as God loves you, that is the measure of success

We're under obligation to love - that's the commandment.

Christians in community must again show the world, not merely family values, but the bond of the love of Christ.

The one who loves knows better than anyone else how to conduct himself, how to serve the one he loves. Love prescribes an answer in a given situation as no mere rule can do.

What pity is it that we can die but once to serve our country

Woe unto thee if after all thy profession thou shouldst be found under the power of ignorance, lost in formality, drowned in earthly-mindedness, envenomed with malice, exalted in an opinion of thine own righteousness, leavened with hypocrisy and carnal ends in God's service.

A man may as well hew marble without tools, or paint without colors or instruments, or build without materials, as perform any acceptable service without the graces of the Spirit, which are both the materials and instruments in the work.

Christ does not control his subjects by force, but is King of a willing people. They are, through His grace, freely devoted to His service.

Almsgiving is not a service of God, but of vain-glory, if it spring not from divine love.

Christ keeps not his subjects in by force, but is King of a willing people. They are, through his grace, freely devoted to his service; they serve out of choice, not as slaves, but as the son or spouse, from a spring of love and a loyal mind. In a word, the laws of Christ are the convert's love, delight, and continual study.

Oh, Lord, let me feel at one with myself. Let me perform a thousand daily tasks with love, but let every one spring from a greater central core of devotion and love.

Never walk away from someone who deserves help; your hand is God's hand for that person.