Quotes about Service
If we can't live the sacred journey with Christ daily and are not actively drawing others into that journey—way outside the worship center or sanctuary and outside our stained-glass or silk-plant ghettos—we can't expect to do it in an hour on Sunday morning or Wednesday night.
— Mike Breen
Friends are those who serve the cause when they can. Followers are those who submit their skills and resources to have Jesus transform them. But family are those who surrender completely, laying down their agenda fully for the agenda of Jesus. This is what the disciples eventually do.
— Mike Breen
The problem is that most of us have been educated and trained to build, serve and lead the organization of the church. Most of us have actually never been trained to make disciples.
— Mike Breen
Jesus called them together and said, "You know that those who are regarded as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all. For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many." —Mark 10: 42—45
— Mike Breen
What we see from Jesus is that success isn't thousands of people and an ever-expanding church. Success is obedience to what the Father asks.
— Mike Breen
The most powerful demonstration of leadership is not a clenched fist of brute force but an open hand of humble assistance.
— Mike Huckabee
God doesn't look at how much we do, but with how much love we do it.
— Mother Teresa
It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you . . . yes, it is Christmas every time you smile at your brother and offer him your hand." Philemon
— Mother Teresa
Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.
— Mother Teresa
Holiness is doing GodÃ
— Mother Teresa
Love, to be real, must cost - it must hurt - it must empty us of self.
— Mother Teresa
We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.
— Mother Teresa