Quotes about Service

Our high and privileged calling is to do the will of God in the power of God for the glory of God.

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.

If I look at the mass I will never act.

Leaders goal: Understand the power of serving a leader further down the road than you because leadership is contagious.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.

Leadership is not about control but service. Its not about power but empowerment

Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.

There is little use in preaching the love of God in words without showing the love of God in action.

You have been speaking about William Carey. When I am gone, say nothing about William Carey-speak only about Willam Carey's Saviour.

In respect to the danger of being killed by them, it is true that whoever does go must put his life in his hand, and not consult with flesh and blood; but do not the goodness of the cause, the duties incumbent on us as the creatures of God, and Christians, and the perishing state of our fellow men, loudly call upon us to venture all and use every warrantable exertion for their benefit?

There is only one thing I wast to say about Ohio that has a political tinge, and that is that I think a mistake has been made of recent years in Ohio in failing to continue as our representatives the same people term after term. I do not need to tell a Washington audience, among whom there are certainly some who have been interested in legislation, that length of service in the House and in the Senate is what gives influence.