To generous souls every task is noble.

I testify that this work in which we're engaged is the Lord's work. I've felt His sustaining influence.

We all need reminders that there is a huge difference between coaching from the spiritual sidelines and putting skin in the game. Between advertising for the cause and actually joining it. Between talking about it from afar and getting close enough for it to affect our comfort.

Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.

There's something in all of us that wants a medal for what we have done. That wants to be appreciated.

When you serve others, you are serving God. When you do it for them, you're doing it for Him. Jesus said, "If you give a cup of cold water to someone in need, you will surely be rewarded." Every time you serve, God sees it. Every time you help someone else. Every time you sacrifice--you go out of your way to pick up a friend, you get up early to sing in the choir, you stay late to help a coworker--God is keeping the record.

Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

I have discovered that the people who believe most strongly in the next life do the most good in the present one.

I will spend my heaven doing good on earth.

Nurses are angels in comfortable shoes.

I never thought it would be easy to serve God, she said. I just didn't think it would be this hard.

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.