Quotes about Service
Do I walk into situations prepared with the fullness of God in me, free to look for ways to bless others? Or… Do I walk into situations empty and dependent on others to look for way to bless me?
— Lysa TerKeurst
My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. (John 15:9 — 12)
— Lysa TerKeurst
The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet."
— John Eldredge
What man is a man who does not make the world better?
— John Eldredge
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you-ask what you can do for your country. My citizens of the world. Ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
— John F. Kennedy
Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism.
— John F. Kennedy
You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don't have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don't have to know Einstein's theory of relativity to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. And you can be that servant.
— John F. Kennedy
My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
— John F. Kennedy
God has created me to do some definite service. He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission. I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good; I shall do His work.
— John Henry Newman
It is beautiful in a picture to wash the disciples' feet; but the sands of the real desert have no lustre in them to compensate for the servile nature of the occupation.
— John Henry Newman
If we do not serve what coheres and endures, we serve what disintegrates and destroys.
— Wendell Berry
People who minister worldwide to protect and conserve the environment are of no lower status than those who minister to plant churches.
— Leonard Sweet