Quotes about Service
Non nobis solum nati sumus. ( Not for ourselves alone are we born. )
— Cicero
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
Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.
— Marianne Williamson
In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.
— Marianne Williamson
When Christ said: "I was hungry and you fed me," he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness.
— Mother Teresa
Take heed to yourselves, lest you perish while you call upon others to take heed of perishing, and lest you famish yourselves while you prepare their food.
— Richard Baxter
The call for a sincere gift of self is the fullest way to realize our personal freedom.
— Pope John Paul II
How much better the world would be if we all gave gifts of understanding, and compassion, of service, and friendship, of kindness and gentleness.
— Thomas Monson
Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wounded healers are GOD's Greatest weapons.
— Mario Murillo
God does not call the qualified, He qualifies the called. -The Circle Maker-
— Mark Batterson
Now here is what you need to understand: If you don't turn your adversity into a ministry, then your pain remains your pain. But if you allow God to translate your adversity into a ministry, then your pain becomes someone else's gain.
— Mark Batterson