Quotes about Service
Being ordained is not about serving God perfectly but about serving God visibly, allowing other people to learn whatever they can from watching you rise and fall.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
At least one of the purposes of church is to remind us that God has other children, easily as precious as we. Baptism and narcissism cancel each other out.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
If Jesus meant for his followers to rule the world, then why did he teach them to wash feet? As difficult as it is to accept, I believe that his death on the cross reveals the God who suffers for love instead of punishing the unloving, the God who lays down his life for his friends.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
To be a priest is to know that things are not as they should be and yet to care for them the way they are.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
If Jesus meant for his followers to rule the world, then why did he teach them to wash feet?
— Barbara Brown Taylor
A priest is a priest, no matter where she happens to be. Her job is to recognize the holiness in things and hold them up to God. Her job is to speak in ways that help other people recognize the holiness in things too.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
I was so busy serving the Divine Presence that we never got any time alone anymore.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Think hard before you do this," one said to me when I told him I wanted to be ordained. "Right now, you have the broadest ministry imaginable. As a layperson, you can serve God no matter what you do for a living, and you can reach out to people who will never set foot inside a church. Once you are ordained, that is going to change. Every layer of responsibility you add is going to narrow your ministry, so think hard before you choose a smaller box.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
It's amazing if you just listen to people. They tell you all the time things that you can do for them, without even realizing what they're doing. I've learned to take notice of those things and if it's something that I feel God wants me to do, then I try to do that to add joy to their life.
— Joyce Meyer
The priesthood is not really so much a gift as it is a commission to serve, a privilege to lift, and an opportunity to bless the lives of others.
— Thomas Monson
If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden, and your own burden will be lighter.
— Ezra Taft Benson