I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know; the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.

Everyone must work to live, but the purpose of life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others. Only then have we ourselves become true human beings.

I am not preoccupied with collecting more goods and services; quite simply, my desire and effort—every day—is to pay back, to give back to the world a bit of what I have received.

We are healed to help others. We are blessed to be a blessing. We are saved to serve, not to sit around and wait for heaven.

We bring God glory by serving others with our gifts.

Henri Nouwen said, "In order to be of service to others we have to die to them; that is, we have to give up measuring our meaning and value with the yardstick of others…. thus we become free to be compassionate." When you base your worth and identity on your relationship to Christ, you are freed from the expectations of others, and that allows you to really serve them best.

If you want to be used by God, you must care about what God cares about;

This is my commandment," Jesus said, putting before us a single ideal, "That you love one another, as I have loved you" (John 15:12). The simplicity and force of this statement take away the breath.

The surest way to minimize your own burdens is to carry someone else's.

Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.

I have told everybody that what we are doing is for the love of God and works of love are always to accept and respect others.