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Being totally committed to Jesus and living to give. If you are not living to give, then you are living for yourself and cutting off the flow of God. Living to give will bring you into the place of living from your giving. Giving
— Kenneth Copeland
She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.
— CS Lewis
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
— CS Lewis
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
— Calvin Coolidge
No person was ever honored for what he recieved. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
— Calvin Coolidge
Any man who has been placed in the White House cannot feel that it is the result of his own exertions or his own merit. Some power outside and beyond him becomes manifest through him. As he contemplates the workings of his office, he comes to realize with an increasing sense of humility that he is but an instrument in the hands of God.
— Calvin Coolidge
We've by far had the most success inviting people into our community life by inviting them to serve alongside us. As a matter of fact, that's about the only thing that's worked consistently as far as "official" church activities go. The other thing that has worked is parties—birthday parties, Super Bowl parties—where we invite churched friends and unchurched friends just to connect.
— George Barna
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
— George Bernard Shaw
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.
— George Bernard Shaw
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
— George Bernard Shaw
This is the true joy in life -- being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one...
— George Bernard Shaw
He said that knowledge was of little use without wisdom, and that there was no wisdom without spirituality, and that true spirituality always included service to others. As he explained many times, the essence of a good physician consisted of a capacity for compassion and a sense of the ethical, without which qualities the sacred art of healing degenerated into simple charlatanism.
— Isabel Allende