Quotes about Service

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Live like Jesus did, and the world will listen.

No life of faith can be lived privately. There must be overflow into the lives of others.

What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

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!

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.

Friends, wait for God. When He gives the signal, and releases you from this service, then depart to Him. But for the present, endure to dwell in the place wherein He has assigned you your post. Short indeed is the time of your habitation, and easy to those that are thus minded. What tyrant, what robber, what tribunals have any terrors for those who thus esteem the body and all that belong to it as of no account?

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country, than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.

Surely the principles of Christianity lead to action as well as meditation.