Quotes about Service
Quit praying about yourself and spend your life for the sake of others as the bondservant of Jesus. That is the true meaning of being broken bread and poured-out wine in real life.
— Oswald Chambers
The central point of the kingdom of Jesus Christ is a personal relationship with Him, not public usefulness to others.
— Oswald Chambers
Don't say to yourself, "But God is not talking to me right now." He ought to be. Remember whose you are and whom you serve. Encourage yourself to remember, and your affection for God will increase tenfold. Your mind will no longer be starved, but will be quick and enthusiastic, and your hope will be inexpressibly bright.
— Oswald Chambers
To be a disciple means that we deliberately identify ourselves with God's interests in other people. "That ye love one another; as I have loved you. . . .
— Oswald Chambers
Our ordinary and reasonable service to God may actually compete against our total surrender to Him.
— Oswald Chambers
If you want to be of use to God, get rightly related to Jesus Christ and He will make you of use unconsciously every minute you live.
— Oswald Chambers
God does not expect us to work for Him, but to work with Him.
— Oswald Chambers
Jesus did not say to make converts to your way of thinking, but He said to look after His sheep, to see that they get nourished in the knowledge of Him. We consider what we do in the way of Christian work as service, yet Jesus Christ calls service to be what we are to Him, not what we do for Him. Discipleship is based solely on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on following after a particular belief or doctrine.
— Oswald Chambers
The central thing about the kingdom of Jesus Christ is a personal relationship to Himself, not public usefulness to men.
— Oswald Chambers
If you believe in Jesus, you will find that God has nourished in you mighty torrents of blessing for others.
— Oswald Chambers
It is much better to fulfill the purpose of God in your life by discerning His will than it is to perform great acts of self-sacrifice.
— Oswald Chambers
The real test of the saint is not preaching the gospel, but washing disciples' feet, that is, doing the things that do not count in the actual estimate of men, but count everything in the estimate of God. Paul
— Oswald Chambers