Quotes about Service

The people who make a difference are not the ones with the credentials but the ones with the concern.

Soul-winning is the chief business of the Christian minister; it should be the main pursuit of every true believer.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

There is no way of making a business successful that can vie with the policy of promoting those who render exceptional service.

The purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer. All business activities must be focused on this central purpose.

I think about what's the best way to serve people. In business, if you do more for others than anybody else does, you dominate. That's the bottom line.

My motto has always been: Only first class business and that in a first class way

It is well worth remembering that the customer is the most important factor in any business. If you don't think so, try getting along without him for a while.

Do you want to do something beautiful for God? There is a person who needs you. This is your chance.

The King's instructions included that "all persons should kindly treat the savages and heathen people in these parts, and use all proper means to draw them to the true service and knowledge of God."21 As early as 1588, Sir Walter Raleigh had given 100 pounds for the "propagation of Christianity in Virginia."22

But all true effort to help begins with self-humiliation: the helper must first humble himself under him he would help, and therewith must understand that to help does not mean to be a sovereign but to be a servant, that to help does not mean to be ambitious but to be patient, that to help means to endure for the time being the imputation that one is in the wrong and does not understand what the other understands.

Love works; and if we do not see the works of love (in places where they obviously ought to be) then we can be sure that love is not present.