Quotes about Service

If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it.

I came to know God when I was 12, started working in the ministry when I was 13, working in the slum area, living among the poor, loving it, and having this belief that to love the poor I needed to be poor.

Your most effective ministry will come out of your deepest hurts.

The goal of 'The Purpose Driven Life' is to help people develop a heart for the world.

A happy life is a life for others.

If you live life with the intention of making a difference in others' lives, your life will be full not empty.

The lives of truest heroism are those in which there are no great deeds to look back upon. It is the little things well done that go to make up a truly successful and good life.

The greatest moments in life are not concerned with selfish achievements, but rather with the things we do for others

It is impossible to need excuses when the focus of your life shifts from 'What's in it for me?' to 'How can I serve?'

I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.

There's never been a doctor who served many patients who, despite their best efforts, did not lose some of them to death. But they understood that was part of life itself.

No life is messier than one in ministry