Inspirational Quotes on Service

“The greatest man living may stand in need of the meanest, as much as the meanest does of him.”

“The Scriptures teach that the happiness or blessedness of believers in a future life will be greater or less in proportion to the service of Christ in this life. Those who love little, do little; and those who do little, enjoy less.”

“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)”

“What an encouragement to realize that God has reserved you and me for a special task in His great work. In His hands we're not only useful, but priceless.”

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

“Not that our salvation should be the effect of our work, but our work should be the evidence of our salvation.”

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

“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.'”

“I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.”

“But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.”

“Seeking to perpetuate one's name on earth is like writing on the sand by the seashore; to be perpetual it must be written on eternal shores.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“We may sometimes think we're a forgotten commodity, but God remembers every one of us who serve Him.”

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

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