Quotes about Service

One who prays ceaselessly is one who combines prayer with work and work with prayer.

Either we serve God and use money or we serve money and use God.

calling is the truth that God calls us to himself so decisively that everything we are, everything we do, and everything we have is invested with a special devotion and dynamism lived out as a response to his summons and service.

What hinders me from hearing is that I am taken up with other things. It is not that I will not hear God, but I am not devoted in the right place. I am devoted to things, to service, to convictions, and God may say what He likes but I do not hear Him.

Suppose God wants to teach you to say, "I know how to be abased"--are you ready to be offered up like that? Are you ready to be not so much as a drop in a bucket--to be so hopelessly insignificant that you are never thought of again in connection with the life you served? Are you willing to spend and be spent; not seeking to be ministered unto, but to minister?

Some of us are like the Dead Sea, always taking in but never giving out, because we are not rightly related to the Lord Jesus.

God plants His saints in the most useless places. We say, 'God intends me to be here because I am so useful.' Jesus never estimated His life along the line of the greatest use. God puts His saints where they will glorify Him, and we are no judge at all of where that is.

If we are abandoned to Jesus we have no ends of our own to serve.

The loadstar of a saint is God Himself, not estimated usefulness. It is the work that God does through us that count, not what we do for him.

The most important aspect of Christianity is not the work we do, but the relationship we maintain

The saint who satisfies the heart of Jesus will make other saints strong and mature for God.

As Christians we are not here for our own purpose at all—we are here for the purpose of God, and the two are not the same.