Quotes about Service
The Holy Spirit says: You are it. You are God's plan. In a thirsty world, people need to be refreshed. It is a broken world, and people need to be healed. Now get out there and do it!
— John Ortberg
The greatest threat to your ministry, dear brothers, is that you lose your joy in God.
— John Piper
If you are too good to look after God's trash, you are not good enough to look after God's treasure.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The desperately poor are not going to come to us to hear the Good News. We have to go to them.
— Jackie Pullinger
The church is never a place to show off. Do your good deeds quietly. Serve; don't seek to be seen
— Max Lucado
To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
— John Adams
The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.
— Marianne Williamson
Employ whatever God has entrusted you with, in doing good, all possible good, in every possible kind and degree.
— John Wesley
I don't think you're much good, unless you're doing good to someone.
— Rose Kennedy
Without our suffering, our work would simply be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not part of the Redemption.
— Mother Teresa
When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, "Now is that political or social?" He said, "I feed you." Because the good news to a hungry person is bread.
— Desmond Tutu
The most useful members of a church are usually those who would be doing harm if they were not doing good.
— Charles Spurgeon