Quotes about Service

The ministerial work must be managed purely for God and the salvation of the people, and not for any private ends of our own.

Every man therefore is bound to do all the good he can to others, especially for the church and commonwealth.

If you must needs have your pleasures, you should not have put yourselves into that calling that requireth you to make God and His service your pleasure, and restraineth you so much from fleshly pleasures.

The ministry is another kind of business than too many excellent preachers take it to be.

Sometimes we see problems in our church. Such occasions are not opportunities to criticize or to leave, but to let Christ use our lives to be a part of His solution. If you are presently in a church that is suffering difficulties, could it be that Christ added you to your congregation for such a time as this?

He also came to realize that he had been so busy attempting to do things for God he had not spent time enjoying fellowship with God.

For with God, there's always another role to undertake, a fresh assignment, and another task that will call upon everything we've experienced and learned thus far. God is never finished with us. He may, however, be finished with our current role. If so, we must be prepared to take on the next assignment that inevitably comes.

As Desmond Tutu told me on a recent trip to Cape Town, "We are only the light bulbs, Richard, and our job is just to remain screwed in!

You know after any truly initiating experience that you are part of a much bigger whole. Life is not about you henceforward, but you are about life.

All we can give back and all God wants from any of us is to humbly and proudly return the product that we have been given—which is ourselves!

I am not preoccupied with collecting more goods and services; quite simply, my desire and effort—every day—is to pay back, to give back to the world a bit of what I have received.

forgiveness always heals; it does not matter whether you are Hindu, Buddhist, Catholic or Jewish. Forgiveness is one of the patterns that is always true, it is part of The Story. There is no specifically Catholic way to feed the hungry or to steward the earth.