Quotes about Service

Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness.

The end of life is not to be happy nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.

After we've discovered what God called us to do, after we've discovered our life's work, we should set out to do that work so well that the living, the dead, or the unborn couldn't do it any better.

Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?

And when you discover what you're going to be in life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do it. And

How quickly self rises to the surface, and the instrument is ready to believe he is something more than an instrument! How sadly easy it is to make of the very service God entrusts us with a pedestal on which to display ourselves. But God will not share His glory with another, and therefore does He hide those who may be tempted to take some of it unto themselves. It is only by retiring from public view and getting alone with God that we can learn our own nothingness.

If you're feeling helpless, help someone.

Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands but yours, no feet but yours, Yours are the eyes through which to look out Christ's compassion to the world Yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good; Yours are the hands with which he is to bless men now.

In my experience, you will truly serve only what you love because service is love made visible. If you love your friends, you will serve your friends. If you love community, you will serve your community. If you love money, you will serve your money and, if you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself and you will have only yourself. So no winning. Instead, try to love others and serve others and hopefully find others that love and serve you in return.

You only get one shot in this life. So let me do all the good I can for my fellow man. For I will not pass this way again.

It's not about you.

Helping yourself is common sense, helping others is virtue, helping yourself and others is enlightenment.