Quotes about Service
You know well that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, as at the love with which we do them.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self.
— Mother Teresa
We are sent into the world, like Jesus, to serve. For this is the natural expression of our love for our neighbors. We love. We go. We serve.
— John Stott
To love and to be loved, one must do good to others. The inevitable condition whereby to become blessed, is to bless others.
— Mary Baker Eddy
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
— St. Francis Of Assisi
It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you.
— Mother Teresa
The primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ.
— Vance Havner
Not all of us are called to die a martyr's death, but all of us are called to have the same spirit of self-sacrifice and love to the very end as these martyrs had.
— Richard Wurmbrand
God has spoken to me many times that my job is to love and his job is to heal.
— Heidi Baker
We have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things: to love and be loved.
— Mother Teresa
The soul of one who serves God always swims in joy, always keeps holiday, is always in her palace of jubilation, ever singing with fresh ardor and fresh pleasure a new song of joy and love.
— John of the Cross
Jesus never says to the poor: 'come find the church', but he says to those of us in the church: 'go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned.
— Tony Campolo