Quotes about Service
The most important thing I've come to believe in is that people with mental handicaps have a unique mission to bring God's blessing to the World.
- Henri Nouwen
Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community.
- Henri Nouwen
The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub.
- Henry Ward Beecher
If you will focus on meeting other people's needs, God will always make sure your needs are supplied. God will take care of your problems for you.
- Joel Osteen
I want the services to look and sound like the Grammys. It's not showy, but we represent God, and it should be first class.
- Joel Osteen
God will give to you what He knows will flow through you.
- John Maxwell
My potential is what God gives me - that's His gift to me - what I give back to Him is what I do with that potential.
- John Maxwell
No Task will be so sordid and base, provided you obey your calling in it, that it will not shine and be reckoned very precious in God's sight.
- John Calvin
The Holy Spirit says: You are it. You are God's plan. In a thirsty world, people need to be refreshed. It is a broken world, and people need to be healed. Now get out there and do it!
- John Ortberg
The greatest threat to your ministry, dear brothers, is that you lose your joy in God.
- John Piper
Christianity isn't looking for a rainbow. If it were... we'd pass out opium at services. We're trying to serve God, not be God.
- John Updike
If you are too good to look after God's trash, you are not good enough to look after God's treasure.
- Matshona Dhliwayo