Quotes about Service
The very names Kierkegaard, Luther, Calvin, Paul and Jeremiah suggest what Schleiermacher never possessed, a clear and direct apprehension of the truth that man is made to serve God and not God to serve man.
— Karl Barth
To be Christian it will cost a man his love of ease.
— JC Ryle
Man is born for deeds of kindness.
— Marcus Aurelius
What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone.
— Theodore Roosevelt
No one has learned the meaning of living until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow man. Service to others is akin to duty, the fulfillment of which brings true joy.
— Thomas Monson
Jesus wants men who will rule well.
— Tony Evans
It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.
— Phillips Brooks
All men were created to busy themselves with the labor for the common good.
— John Calvin
Worship is ultimate, not missions. Because God is ultimate, not man.
— John Piper
I believe men and women are the same and that women should be given an equal chance to serve God with men.
— Jimmy Carter
I hold that while a man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.
— Abraham Lincoln
The only reason I send a single young man or woman in uniform anywhere in the world is because I think it's necessary to keep us safe.
— Barack Obama