Quotes about Service

The most important aspect of Christianity is not the work we do, but the relationship we maintain

The saint who satisfies the heart of Jesus will make other saints strong and mature for God.

As Christians we are not here for our own purpose at all—we are here for the purpose of God, and the two are not the same.

Discipleship is based not on devotion to abstract ideals, but on devotion to a person, the Lord Jesus Christ;

To do even the most humbling tasks to the glory of God takes the Almighty God Incarnate working in us." Oswald Chambers

When someone thinks that to develop a holy life he must always be alone with God, he is no longer of any use to others.

Beware of any work for God which enables you to evade concentration on Him. A great many Christian workers worship their work.

There are times when you cannot understand why you cannot do what you want to do. When God brings the blank space, see that you do not fill it in, but wait. The blank space may come in order to teach you what sanctification means; or it may come after sanctification to teach you what service means. Never run before God's guidance. If there is the slightest doubt, then He is not guiding. Whenever there is doubt—don't.

Jesus Christ was made broken bread and poured-out wine for us, and He expects us to be made broken bread and poured-out wine in His hands for others.

In Luke 10:20, Jesus told the disciples not to rejoice in successful service, and yet this seems to be the one thing in which most of us do rejoice. We have a commercialized view—we count how many souls have been saved and sanctified, we thank God, and then we think everything is all right. Yet our work only begins where God's grace has laid the foundation. Our work is not to save souls, but to disciple them.

It is inbred in us that we have to do exceptional things for God; but we have not. We have to be exceptional in the ordinary things.

We have no right to decide where we should be placed, or to have preconceived ideas as to what God is preparing us to do. God engineers everything; and wherever He places us, our one supreme goal should be to pour out our lives in wholehearted devotion to Him in that particular work. "Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might . . ." (Ecclesiastes 9:10).