Quotes about Service

The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.

My dharma teaches me to give my life for the sake of others without even attempting to kill.

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.

Life, any life, would be well spent, under any conceivable conditions in bringing one human soul to know and love and serve God and His Son, and thereby securing for yourself at least one temple where your name and memory would be held for ever and for ever in affectionate praise — a regenerate heart in heaven. That fame will prove immortal, when all the poems and pyramids of earth have gone to dust.

Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.

Considering myself called of my God to instruct the ignorant, comfort the sorrowful, confirm the weak, and rebuke the proud; by tongue and lively voice in these corrupt days rather than to compose books for the age to come, seeing that so much is written, and yet so little well observed, I decree to contain myself within the bounds of that vocation whereunto I found myself especially called.

I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.

This job has been given to me to do. Therefore, it is a gift. Therefore, it is a privilege. Therefore, it is an offering I may make to God. Therefore, it is to be done gladly, if it is done for Him. Here, not somewhere else, I may learn God's way. In this job, not in some other, God looks for faithfulness.

Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself.

We are unprofitable servants" (Luk 17:10)—our obedience has profited God nothing.

A due apprehension of God's sovereignty promotes the spirit of worship, provides an incentive to practical godliness, and inspires zeal in service.

This is the best cure for melancholy: to set about doing something which will require muscular exertion and which will benefit others.