Quotes about Service
If I'm doing something as an offering unto the Lord, I want to give God my best.
- Stephen Kendrick
Gifts are abilities God gives us to meet the needs of others in Christ's name.
- Timothy Keller
If you want my goodness to stay with you then serve your neighbour, for in him God comes to you himself; such a man sees in his neighbour the material and spiritual need he is called to meet.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Your powers are dead or dedicated. If they are dedicated, they are alive with God and tingle with surprising power. If they are saved up, taken care of for their own ends, they are dead.
- E Stanley Jones
Our mothers put God first when they fill their highest mission within the walls of their own homes.
- Ezra Taft Benson
People who are obsessed with Jesus do not consider service a burden. Obsessed people take joy in loving God by loving His people (Mt 13:44)(Jn 15:8).
- Francis Chan
Resolved, never to do any manner of thing, whether in soul or body, less or more, but what tends to the glory of God; nor be, nor suffer it, if I can avoid it.
- Jonathan Edwards
As I am generous towards others ... As I see a person in need and don't just say, 'God bless you.' I am proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
- Kay Arthur
Let your one delight and refreshment be to pass from one service to the community to another, with God ever in mind.
- Marcus Aurelius
A dairymaid can milk cows to the glory of God
- Martin Luther
think about the way God rules. He doesn't do it by sending in the tanks. He does it by calling servants.
- NT Wright
No Christian ought to think of himself as his own master, but each should rather so think and act as though given by God to be slave to his like minded brethren (cf. I Cor. 9:19)?
- St. Basil