Quotes about Service

Ralph Waldo Emerson had this truth in mind when he said (in his essay on Compensation), "If you serve an ungrateful master, serve him the more. Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is withholden, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer

You will find happiness only by helping others to find it.

SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE is among the most plentiful, and the cheapest forms of service which may be had!

What! Giving again?" I ask in dismay. "And must I keep giving and giving away?" "Oh no," said the angel looking me through, "Just keep giving till the Master stops giving to you!

Officially, the New Testament church at an early stage took seriously their responsibility for widows who lacked family or other resources. The office of deacon was instituted initially to address this pressing need.

Jesus' final act of public ministry was to address the needs of a widow, his own mother, whose eldest son was dying before her very eyes.

Dear God,' I said inside myself, 'when I came here, maybe I was partly running off from home for fun and freedom and adventure. But I have a notion that You had something else in mind in letting me come. Anyway if You can use me here in this Cove, well, here I am.

My dad was in the Army, and we moved, I think, eight times before I was in the seventh grade. We landed in Tallahassee when my dad retired from the Army and started working for the state.

As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I know that the men and women of our intelligence community put their lives on the line every day, and they do very dangerous work to keep our country safe.

God gave men and women work to do in the Garden before the Fall.

Together with the Works of Mercy, feeding, clothing and sheltering our brothers, we must indoctrinate.

Well, today, the diocese is more than ever a microcosm.