Quotes about Service

If I ran a retail store, which I have done in my life, I would go into it from a place of "I am thrilled to be here, and I am honored to be able to serve other people."

I felt the hand and the call of God in my life that I would be doing ministry and trying to serve Him the best that I could.

I am not a missionary, but I have wanted my life to count for the unreached peoples of the world.

A life not lived for others is not a life, a game not played for others is not a game.

Is there any real purpose in being alive if all we are going to do is get up every day and live only for ourselves? Live your life to help others. Give & live selflessly.

The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.

My dharma teaches me to give my life for the sake of others without even attempting to kill.

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.

Life, any life, would be well spent, under any conceivable conditions in bringing one human soul to know and love and serve God and His Son, and thereby securing for yourself at least one temple where your name and memory would be held for ever and for ever in affectionate praise — a regenerate heart in heaven. That fame will prove immortal, when all the poems and pyramids of earth have gone to dust.

Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.

Considering myself called of my God to instruct the ignorant, comfort the sorrowful, confirm the weak, and rebuke the proud; by tongue and lively voice in these corrupt days rather than to compose books for the age to come, seeing that so much is written, and yet so little well observed, I decree to contain myself within the bounds of that vocation whereunto I found myself especially called.

I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.