Quotes about Service

Those who have matured spiritually, now put service to others at the center of their quest and of their lives.

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

From what we get, we can make a living. What we give; however, makes a life.

'What would Jesus do?' or 'What would He have me do?' are the paramount personal questions of this life.

People make a big fuss over you when you're President. But I'm very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn't go to my head.

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.

Vocation is the place where our deep gladness meets the world's deep need.

The place to which God calls you is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

By and large a good rule for finding out is this: the kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work that you need most to do and the world most needs to have done. If you really get a kick out of your work, you've presumably met requirement, but if your work is writing TV deodorant commercials, the chances are you've missed requirement.

To find our calling is to find the intersection between our own deep gladness and the world's deep hunger.

The day that man forgets that love is identical with sacrifice, he will ask how a God of love could demand mortification and self-denial.