Service Quotes

“The Church is the Church only when it exists for others...not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison

“Of course you could do more - you can always do more, and you should do more - but still, the important things is to do what you can, whenever you can. You just do your best, and that's all you can do. Too many people use the excuse that they don't think they can do enough, so they decide they don't have to to do anything. There's never a good excuse for not doing anything - even if it's just to sign something, or send a small contribution, or invite a newly settled refugee family over for Thanksgiving.”
― Will Schwalbe, The End of Your Life Book Club

“He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act”
― Plato

“We never think lightly of those who walk with us on our uphill days.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“You can find Calcutta anywhere in the world. You only need two eyes to see. Everywhere in the world there are people that are not loved, people that are not wanted nor desired, people that no one will help, people that are pushed away or forgotten. And this is the greatest poverty.”
― Mother Theresa

“It is not what you leave to your children that matters, but what you leave in them.”
― Shannon L. Alder, 300 Questions to Ask Your Parents Before It's Too Late

“You can get in anywhere if you go to serve.”
― Brother Andrew, God's Smuggler

“Nothing disciplines the inordinate desires of the flesh like service, and nothing transforms the desires of the flesh like serving in hiddenness. The flesh whines against service but screams against hidden service. It strains and pulls for honour and recognition. It will devise subtle, religiously acceptable means to call attention to the service rendered. If we stoutly refuse to give in to this lust of the flesh, we crucify it. Every time we crucify the flesh, we crucify our pride and arrogance.”
― Richard J. Foster, Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

“Words only reveal half of your heart. Service defines the other half. Character is the combination of the two.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Yes, of course we could all use some help. There isn't a person alive without a need. So don't ask the silly question, just figure out how you're going to help and do it!”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“If our prayer is “Dear God, please use me to be of service,” then that is what we will be. And it is not for us to judge either the size or value of our gifts. Our job is to try to get out of the way, to defer to the spirit moving within us and become open channels for the flow of God’s love.”
― Marianne Williamson, Enchanted Love: The Mystical Power Of Intimate Relationships

“I would never want to reach out someday with a soft, uncallused hand-a hand never dirtied by serving-and shake the nail-pierced hand of Jesus.”
― Bill Hybels

“Intellectual discourse and investigation is admittedly great fun but only truly meaningful when conducted in the service of others.”
― Sergio De La Pava, A Naked Singularity

“Christmas is our annual reminder to look up—pondering celestial stars, to look out—serving those in need, and to look down—glorifying our Lord in humble prayer.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“No time is better spent than that spent in the service of your fellow man.”
― Bryan McGill

“We believe that all those who are served should also spend time serving.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Fortune's Fool

“As long as there are ways we can serve, then we have a job to do.”
― Marianne Williamson, Everyday Grace

“May your heart open.
May joy emerge.
May love flow through you.
May you heal and help others.”
― Charlene Costanzo, The Twelve Gifts for Healing

“Service is providing what's wanted, not what I'd like to give.”
― Brian Klemmer, The Compassionate Samurai: Being Extraordinary in an Ordinary World

“Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.”
― Thomas Dooley

“Certainly, Gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinions high respect; their business unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his /pleasure, his satisfactions, to theirs/, --- and above all, ever, and in all cases, to prefer their interest to his own.
But his unbiased opinion, his mature judgement, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. These he does not derive from your pleasure, --- no, nor from the law and the Constitution. They are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of which he is deeply answerable. Your Representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinions.”
― Edmund Burke

“It is not about how intelligent you are or how good you score in exam but it is about how helpful you are and how much you made people happy”
― Vijay Dhameliya

“Let us choose life and love, and happily use our selves up in loving service to one another.”
― Doris Haddock

“Wanting help, I reached out to serve. Seeking happiness, I smiled and offered comfort. Yearning for love, I showed love. And now I understand. My life was never about me, it was always about you.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“Graciousness in serving and being served marks the lives of leaders who have made the largest impact on my life.”
― Sue Mallory, The Equipping Church

“Until you understand your customers - deeply and genuinely - you cannot hope to serve them”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru, Soul Trader

“Until you understand your customers - deeply and genuinely - you cannot truly serve them”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru, Soul Trader

“Those who serve deserve.”
― Orrin Woodward, LIFE

“My generosity must bear a cost or there’d be no value in what you gain from it. There’d be no second thought for me, the tiny, humble mankin who came to save you. Is it right for a desperate soul to expect redemption for nothing? No. No, no. So, tell me, child, what will you give me in exchange for my services?"

- from "Dimpellumpzki”
― Richelle E. Goodrich

“A true Christian does not judge whether a person is worthy of help, but only judges a need and how to best meet that need.”
― Toni Sorenson