Quotes about Service

It is the one of the great secrets of life that those things are most worth doing,we do for others.

For the Congregation this new movement involves the danger of learning to think that the Services are done for them; and that their bodily presence is all they need contribute. And, for Clergy and Congregation alike, it involves the danger of regarding these elaborate Services as ends in themselves, and of forgetting that they are simply means, and the very hollowest of mockeries, unless they bear fruit in our lives.

Strength is given us for service, not to convey status (see Romans 15:2). I wonder how much trouble would be averted in the world at large if everyone knew and adhered to this principle. What if we knew that our strength was to serve the weak, fearful, or timid? It would all be good!

The wise person doesn't ask, "What have I achieved?" but rather, "What have I contributed?"

Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.

It is our first duty to serve society, and after we have done that, we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own souls.

We can only keep what we have by being willing to freely give it away; a paraphrase of Jesus Christ.

Do all you can to preach the gospel and if necessary use words!

A Christian should always remember that the value of his good works is not based on their number and excellence, but on the love of God which prompts him to do these things.

For, if we have not charity, we are not Christians: charity is the great duty of Christians.

Live simply so that others may simply live.

If the church is to be missionary, she must be spiritual; and if the church is to be spiritual, she must be missionary.