Quotes about Service

Charity is only as warm as those who administer it.

Everything a baptized person does every day should be directly or indirectly related to the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy.

I don't think God is so jealous about our worship of Him that He will want to separate those who serve His purposes, serve His goodness, because they have read a book, even one written by an atheist, and have been moved, or because they have wanted to be fair all their lives, but have never stepped in a church, from those who have heard God's words in church or read His words in the Bible and become convinced by them.

We must practice the presence of God. He said that when two or three are gathered together, there he is in the midst of them. He is with us in our kitchens, at our tables, on our breadlines, with our visitors, on our farms. When we pray for our material needs, it brings us close to his humanity. He, too, needed food and shelter; he, too, warmed his hands at a fire and lay down in a boat to sleep.

Paperwork, cleaning the house, dealing with the innumerable visitors who come all through the day, answering the phone, keeping patience and acting intelligently, which is to find some meaning in all that happens — these things, too, are the works of peace.

Whatever your life' work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

Politics is a profession a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.

Make your life about something bigger than your life.

As your life is in His hands, so are the days of your life. But don't let the sands of time get into the eye of your vision to reach those who sit in darkness. They simply must hear.

Ministry in no way is a privilege...it is the core of the Christian life. No Christian is a Christian without being a minister.

Will we fulfill God's purpose, or will we shrink back and live a comfortable, self-centered life?