Quotes about Service

God is love, and that love works through men-especially through the whole community of Christians.

The Commander in Chief directs that Divine service be performed every Sunday at 11 o'clock...It is expected that officers of all ranks will by their attendance set an example to their men.

No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.

No life can surpass that of a man who quietly continues to serve God in the place where providence has placed him.

We must re-grasp the idea of church membership as being the membership of the body of Christ and as the biggest honour which can come man's way in this world.

A growing church sees that the work of the ministry should be done by all

Yet the Church does not exist for the infirmary; the infirmary exists for the Church. The

My grandmother had a motto that you should never look down on people unless you are helping them up, and I think that's a very spiritual way of living.

Christopher Hitchens

Mission is not ours; mission is God's. Certainly, the mission of God is the prior reality out of which flows any mission that we get involved in. Or, as has been nicely put, it is not so much the case that God has a mission for his church in the world but that God has a church for his mission in the world. Mission was not made for the church; the church was made for mission-God's mission.14

It is not so much the case that God has a mission for his church in the world, as that God has a church for his mission in the world. Mission was not made for the church; the church was made for mission — God's mission. Chris Wright

A doctor's door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open.