Inspirational Quotes on Service

“Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.”

“Nothing of spiritual significance comes without sacrifice. Your spirituality will always be measured by the size of your sacrifice.”

“So you can't lose serving God, and that all things work together for good.”

“You’re not just an observer, but rather a participant. The Lord has placed you where you are.”

“When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.”

“All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.”

“The Lord has given us a table at which to feast, not an altar on which a victim is to be offered; He has not consecrated priests to make sacrifice, but servants to distribute the sacred feast.”

“There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.”

“For until men recognize that they owe everything to God, that they are nourished by His fatherly care, that He is the Author of their every good, that they should seek nothing beyond Him - they will never yield Him willing service. Nay, unless they establish their complete happiness in Him, they will never give themselves truly and sincerely to Him.”

“The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others.”

“When one is required to preside over the Church, and be entrusted with the care of so many souls, the whole female sex must retire before the magnitude of the task, and the majority of men also.”

“His daily prayer, far better understood in acts than in words, was simply doing good.”

“Our toil is sweet with thankfulness, Our burden is our boon; The curse of earth's gray morning is, The blessing of its noon.”

“The measure of a men's greatness is not the number of servants he has, but the number of people he serves.”

“When you get up in the morning have something that's on God's agenda, and do that.”

“God has created me to do him some definite service; he has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another. I have my mission - I never may know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next.”

“One secret act of self-denial, one sacrifice of inclination to duty, is worth all the mere good thoughts, warm feelings, passionate prayers in which idle people indulge themselves.”

“We serve a gracious Master who knows how to overrule even our mistakes to His glory and our own advantage.”

“The enemy of our salvation especially strives to draw our heart and mind away from God when we are about to serve Him, and endeavours to adulterously attach our heart to something irrelevant. Be always, every moment, with God, especially when you pray to Him. If you are inconstant, you will fall away from life, and will cast yourself into sorrow and straitness.”

“God has work to do in this world; and to desert it because of its difficulties and entanglements, is to cast off His authority. It is not enough that we be just, that we be righteous, and walk with God in holiness; but we must also serve our generation, as David did before he fell asleep. God has a work to do; and not to help Him is to oppose Him.”