Quotes about Service

The church is the primary arena in which we learn that glory does not consist in what we do for God but in what God does for us.

If your first concern is to look after yourself, you'll never find yourself.

Individualism is the growth-stunting, maturity-inhibiting habit of understanding growth as an isolated self-project. Individualism is self-ism with a swagger. The individualist is the person who is convinced that he or she can serve God without dealing with God.

And my work is not to fix people. It is to lead people in the worship of God and to lead them in living a holy life.

Living together means seeing the oil flow over the head, down the face, through the beard, onto the shoulders of the other—and when I see that I know that my brother, my sister, is my priest.

He creates each of us by Christ Jesus to join him in the work he does, the good work he has gotten ready for us to do, work we had better be doing.

Let me give you a new command: Love one another. In the same way I loved you, you love one another. This is how everyone will recognize that you are my disciples — when they see the love you have for each other.

God did not become a servant so that we could order him around but so that we could join him in a redemptive life.

The Christian is a person who recognizes that our real problem is not in achieving freedom but in learning service under a better master. The Christian realizes that every relationship that excludes God becomes oppressive.

Those who parade the rhetoric of liberation but scorn the wisdom of service do not lead people into the glorious liberty of the children of God but into a cramped and covetous squalor.

The hunger problem is not going to be solved by government or by industry but in church, among Christians who learn a different way to pursue happiness.

Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.