Quotes about Service

Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. Humility is thinking more of others.

The only really happy people are those who have learned how to serve.

If you want God to bless you and use you greatly, you must be willing to walk with a limp the rest of your life, because God uses weak people.

It's not what you do, but how much love you put into it that matters.

Good People Do Things For Other People. That's It. The End.

But the true emperor, Luke insists, is not the one who feeds himself but who is willing to offer his life as food for the other. At the climax of his life, this child, come of age, would say to his friends, "This is my body, which will be given for you' do this in memory of me" (Lk 22:19).

Sometimes the answer to our prayers is to become the answer to someone else's prayers.

Our sacrifice is greater than his, cried Rilla passionately. Our boys give only themselves. We give them.

Anne sewed and planned little winter wardrobes...Nan must have a red dress, since she is so set on it...and sometimes thought of Hannah, weaving her little coat every year for the small Samuel. Mothers were the same all through the centuries...a great sisterhood of love and service...the remembered and the unremembered alike.

I am not, proceeded Susan firmly, going to lament or whine or question the wisdom of the Almighty any more as I have been doing lately. Whining and shirking and blaming Providence do not get us anywhere. We have just got to grapple with whatever we have to do whether it is weeding the onion patch, or running the Government. I shall grapple. Those blessed boys have gone to war; and we women, Mrs. Dr. dear, must tarry by the stuff and keep a stiff upper lip.

The folks who lived before me have done so much for me that I want to show my gratitude by doing something for the folks who will live after me.

We are all servants of some sort, and if the fact that we are faithful can be truthfully inscribed on our tombstones, nothing more need be added.