Quotes about Service

We want to live as people chosen, blessed, and broken, and thus become food for the world.

Action with and for those who suffer is the concrete expression of the compassionate life and the final criterion of being a Christian.

It seems easier to be God than to love God, easier to control people than to love people, easier to own life than to love life.

We are called to witness, always with our lives and sometimes with our words, to the great things God has done for us.

The main problem of service is to be the way without being "in the way." And if there are any tools, techniques and skills to be learned they are primarily to plow the field, to cut the weeds and to clip the branches, that is, to take away the obstacles for real growth and development.

Compassion is the fruit of solitude and the basis of all ministry.

A true disciple of Jesus will always go to where people are feeling weak, broken, sick, in pain, poor, lonely, forgotten, anxious, and lost.

Where does my complete flowering as a human being connect with the needs of the world?

Deep and mature friendship does not mean that we keep looking each other in the eyes, constantly impressed or enraptured by each other's beauty, talents, and gifts, but it does mean that together we look at the one who calls us to a life of service.

As the Beloved ones, our greatest fulfilment lies in becoming bread for the world. That is the most intimate expression of our deepest desire to give ourselves to each other.

To be lifted up into the divine life of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit does not mean, however, to be taken out of the world. On the contrary, those who have entered into the spiritual life are precisely the ones who are sent into the world to continue and fulfill the work that Jesus began. The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it.

ministry can be fruitful only if it grows out of a direct and intimate encounter with our Lord.