Quotes about Service
God, I pray Thee, light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn for Thee. Consume my life, my God, for it is Thine. I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you, Lord Jesus.
— Jim Elliot
You have only one life and it will soon be past, and only what's done for Christ will last.
— Chuck Smith
Your vocation in life is where your greatest joy meets the world's greatest need.
— Frederick Buechner
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
— Joseph Campbell
Remember: In the end, you're not living to impress your friends or your relatives or your coworkers. All of life is for Jesus.
— Chris Tomlin
The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
— Corrie Ten Boom
Live like Jesus did, and the world will listen.
— Mahatma Gandhi
No life of faith can be lived privately. There must be overflow into the lives of others.
— Eugene Peterson
What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.
— Aristotle
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
— Arthur Ashe
The service lasted precisely three hours; and yet my brother had the face to exclaim, when he saw us descending, ' ''What, done already?'' 'On Sunday evenings we used to be permitted to play, if we did not make much noise; now a mere titter is sufficient to send us into corners!
— Emily Bronte
But what master, I wonder, do you yourself serve? Money? Women? Boys? The emperor or one of his subordinates? It has to be one of them, or you wouldn't fret about such things.
— Epictetus