Inspirational Quotes on Service

“Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.”

“One's task is not to turn the world upside down, but to do what is necessary at the given place and with a due consideration of reality.”

“Nothing is ever wasted on the Lord.”

“Often the children of God cannot rise up to answer the Lord's call to service simply because, though their physical condition is good, their feelings are low, cold, and reluctant. Or even when their emotions are quite high, passionate, and willing, they find themselves unable to serve the Lord because now the body reacts lazily. The disciples found themselves in precisely that situation in the Garden of Gethsemane: "the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak" (Matt. 26:41)”

“Carnal Christians crave works; yet amid many labors they are unable to maintain calm in their spirit. They cannot fulfill God's orders quietly as can the spiritual believers... their hearts are governed by outward matters. Being "distracted with much serving" (Luke 10:40) is the characteristic of the work of any soulish believer. They have not yet entered the rest of God.”

“Does God ask us to do what is beneath us? This question will never trouble us again if we consider the Lord of heaven taking a towel and washing feet.”

“When a man is right with God, God will freely use him.”

“And doth not God deserve the best service thou canst do him in thy generation?”

“God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.'”

“We don't serve God to gain His acceptance; we are accepted so we serve God. We don't follow Him in order to be loved; we are loved so we follow Him.”

“The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.”

“However dark and profitless, however painful and weary, existence may have become, life is not done, and our Christian character is not won, so long as God has anything left for us to suffer, or anything left for us to do.”

“Servants focus on others, not themselves. This is true humility: not thinking less of ourselves but thinking of ourselves less”

“God never gave a man a thing to do, concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God would have done it.”

“A servant of God has but one Master. It ill becomes the servant to seek to be rich, and great, and honored in that world where his Lord was poor, and mean, and despised.”

“Do all the good you can by all the means you can in all the places you can at all the times you can to all the people you can as long as ever you can.”

“The church is made up of individuals. It can do nothing except as its members work, and work together.”

“A believer should never regard spiritual labor as altogether joyous and jubilant.”

“It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.”

“Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.”