Quotes about Service

As Desmond Tutu told me on a recent trip to Cape Town, "We are only the light bulbs, Richard, and our job is just to remain screwed in!

You know after any truly initiating experience that you are part of a much bigger whole. Life is not about you henceforward, but you are about life.

All we can give back and all God wants from any of us is to humbly and proudly return the product that we have been given—which is ourselves!

I am not preoccupied with collecting more goods and services; quite simply, my desire and effort—every day—is to pay back, to give back to the world a bit of what I have received.

forgiveness always heals; it does not matter whether you are Hindu, Buddhist, Catholic or Jewish. Forgiveness is one of the patterns that is always true, it is part of The Story. There is no specifically Catholic way to feed the hungry or to steward the earth.

Christians are meant to be the visible compassion of God on earth more than "those who are going to heaven.

Following Jesus is a vocation to share the fate of God for the life of the world. To allow what God for some reason allows—and uses. And to suffer ever so slightly what God suffers eternally. Often, this has little to do with believing the right things about God—beyond the fact that God is love itself.

Christianity is much more about living and doing than thinking.

When people get together in solidarity and unity, not out of power but out of powerlessness, then Christ is in their midst.

Authentic Christianity is not so much a belief system as a life-and-death system that shows you how to give away your life, how to give away your love, and eventually how to give away your death. Basically, how to give away—and in doing so, to connect with the world, with all other creatures, and with God.

Jesus himself always went where the pain was. Wherever there was human suffering, Jesus was concerned about it now, and about its healing now.

If you want to be important, serve others. And if you want to be at the top, then slave to help everyone else. The