Quotes about Service

Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my best each and every day.

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in...

Expect no reward when you serve the wicked, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pain

Expect no reward when you serve the wicked, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it is those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.

The Church is the Church only when it exists for others...not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others.

A pastor should never complain about his congregation, certainly never to other people, but also not to God. A congregation has not been entrusted to him in order that he should become its accuser before God and men.

If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course to keep within the limits of what seems permissible to the world), we shall find it hard to train for the service of Christ. When the flesh is satisfied it is hard to pray with cheerfulness or to devote oneself to a life of service which calls for much self-renunciation.

Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.

As brother stands by brother in distress, binding up his wounds and soothing his pain, so let us show our love towards our enemy. There is no deeper distress to be found in the world, no pain more bitter than our enemy's. Nowhere is service more necessary or more blessed than when we serve our enemies.