Quotes about Service
There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!
— Francis de Sales
Our Lord holds the keys to the doors of Christian service. You don't have to chase 'key men' around if you know the Keeper of the keys!
— Vance Havner
The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community.
— Henry Ford
If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Whatever call a man may pretend to have, if he has not been called to holiness, he certainly has not been called to the ministry.
— Charles Spurgeon
Man's greatest happiness comes from losing himself for the good of others.
— David O. McKay
Law intends indeed to do service to human life, but it is not able when men do not choose to accept her services; for it is only in those who are obedient to her that she displays her special virtue.
— Epictetus
The knowledge that I have acquired must not remain imprisoned in my brain. I owe it to many men and women to do something with it. I feel the need to pay back what was given to me. Call it gratitude.
— Elie Wiesel
It will cost you everything to follow the Lord. And it will cost you even more to be His man for this hour.
— AW Tozer
I believe serious progress (in the abolition of war) can be achieved only when men become organized on an international scale and refuse, as a body, to enter military or war service.
— Albert Einstein
No man need fear death, he need fear only that he may die without having known his greatest power: the power of his free will to give his life for others
— Albert Schweitzer