Quotes about Service

We were never meant to be self-focused little kings ruling miniscule little kingdoms with a population of one.

If you followed the Lord for a thousand years, you would still need the ministry of the body of Christ as much as you did the day you first believed.

The success of a ministry is always more a picture of who God is than a statement about who the people are that he is using for his purpose.

To be part of God's redemptive rescue is not only a high calling but a moral obligation.

It really is true that when you're living for you, the call to love others is always a burden for you

When awe of God has captured your heart, ministry will fill your schedule.

Now, if these people are not the focus and object of ministry, then what is ministry?

True Gospel ministry is not a party, but a battle for souls.

A selfish person will never learn the joy of giving and being a blessing to others.

Prayer without action is just religion in hiding.

The most powerful thing that can happen in the place of prayer is that you yourself become the prayer. You leave the prayer room as Jesus's hands and feet on earth. This is what it means to pray continually: to see with the eyes of Jesus and to hear with his ears with every waking moment.

But Washington's long and faithful service stands in marked distinction from Jefferson's mere election. Washington actually served with great fidelity. We do not want to read anything into this other than what the facts tell us, and the facts are that George Washington's service as a vestryman is commensurate with the highest commitment to the Christianity proposed by the Anglican Church.