Christian Service Quotes

If you aim for only wealth, beauty, fame, & power, you aim too low. Humility, gentleness, gratitude, & service is aiming high. ~ LeCrae

Our Lord holds the keys to the doors of Christian service. You don't have to chase 'key men' around if you know the Keeper of the keys! ~ Vance Havner

If you are worshipping God without depending on the Spirit of God, you are serving a god you do not know. ~ T. B. Joshua

He who does not serve God where he is would not serve God anywhere else. ~ Charles Spurgeon

Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily. ~ Saint Francis De Sales

One of the greatest rewards that we ever receive for serving God is the permission to do still more for Him. ~ Charles Spurgeon

In the poor and outcast we see Christ's face; by loving and helping the poor, we love and serve Christ. ~ Pope Francis

The only way you can serve God is by serving other people. ~ Rick Warren

Power in Service - The carnal man can never be used in spiritual service. There is so much of the self life about him that God cannot gain control. The Spirit-filled life is necessary for fruitful Christian service. ~ Oswald J. Smith

It is possible to be at the top of Christian service, respected and admired, and not have that indispensable ingredient by which God has chosen to work in His world today - the absolute sacrificial agape love of the Eternal God. ~ David Jeremiah

It has come to be a dreadfully common belief in the Christian Church that the only man who has a "call" is the man who devotes all his time to what is called "the ministry," whereas all Christian service is ministry, and every Christian has a call to some kind of ministry or another. ~ Charles Spurgeon

My beloved young friends, determine to serve one another. Opportunities for Christian acts of service do not always come at convenient times. Listen to the spirit when your flesh is weak. For truly the Master said, "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me" (Matt. 25:40). The blessings are tenfold when we do those good, kindly acts of Christian service when it is inopportune or not convenient. ~ Vaughn J. Featherstone

Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king. ~ Timothy Keller

Christ leads us to go out from ourselves more and more, to give ourselves and to serve others. ~ Pope Francis

The strain of Christian service can result in sickness ... I have known Christian workers who have risked their lives and health in serving the Lord. ~ Billy Graham

No father, no son, no mother, no daughter should get so busy that he or she does not have time to study the scriptures and the words of modern prophets. None of us should get so busy that we crowd out contemplation and praying. None of us should become so busy in our formal Church assignments that there is no room left for quiet Christian service to our neighbors. ~ Spencer W. Kimball

The sovereign electing grace of God chooses us to repentance, to faith, and afterwards to holiness of living, to Christian service, to zeal, and to devotion. ~ Charles Spurgeon

To know the Word of God, to live the Word of God, to preach the Word, to teach the Word, is the sum of all wisdom, the heart of all Christian service. ~ Charles E. Fuller

As someone who has spent the last decade training young men and women for Christian service, I have been keen to help them see that the best kinds of ministry are, more often than not, long term and low key. I have tried to prepare them for a marathon, not a short, energetic sprint. In other words, to help them have a lifetime of sustainable sacrifice, rather than an energetic but brief ministry that quickly fades in exhaustion. ~ Christopher Ash

And above all, what a strange attitude that actually is, when we no longer find Christian service worthwhile if the denarius of salvation may be obtained even without it! It seems as if we want to be rewarded, not just with our own salvation, but most especially with other people's damnation - just like the workers hired in the first hour. That is very human, but the Lord's parable is particularly meant to make us quite aware of how profoundly un-Christian it is at the same time. Anyone who looks on the loss of salvation for others as the condition, as it were, on which he serves Christ will in the end only be able to turn away grumbling, because THAT kind of reward is contrary to the loving-kindness of God.
-What It Means To Be A Christian ~ Pope Benedict XVI

Our patriotism comes straight from the Romans. This is why French children are encouraged to seek inspiration for it in Corneille. It is a pagan virtue, if these two words are compatible. The word pagan, when applied to Rome, early possesses the significance charged with horror which the early Christian controversialists gave it. The Romans really were an atheistic and idolatrous people; not idolatrous with regard to images made of stone or bronze, but idolatrous with regard to themselves. It is this idolatry of self which they have bequeathed to us in the form of patriotism. ~ Simone Weil

Meaningful prayer is a matter of the heart, not the eloquence of the words. ~ Elizabeth George

The Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. ~ C.S. Lewis

Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I've seen the profound impact he's had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior. ~ Jimmy Carter

Nothing is too great and nothing is too small to commit into the hands of the Lord. ~ Arthur W. Pink

Blessed is he who like Joshua (cf. Josh. 10:12-13) keeps the Sun of righteousness from setting in himself throughout the whole day of his present life, not allowing it to be blotted out by the dusk of sin and ignorance. In this way he will truly be able to put to flight the cunning demons that rise up against him. ~ Maximus The Confessor

Abba Dorotheos said: No matter what kind of sorrow comes to you, don't blame anyone but yourself, and say, "This has happened because of my sins." ~ Ignatius Bryanchaninov

Many family planning clinics and - and programs that service women have refused now to take women's - United State's money because they feel that it would be unethical, and it could injure their clients even more, their patients even more. That has to be changed. ~ Eleanor Smeal

The greatest gift at Christmas is love. The love that bind us together us one Human Family. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

2. Christian education places its emphasis on "unity" in relationships between people. ~ James C. Dobson

Christianity teaches that when man sinned, God opted for forgiveness rather than fairness. He opted for grace and mercy rather than justice. ~ Andy Stanley

Let us help."
"You already did." My voice didn't betray anything. "Both of you helped plan this. You lent me this
car. Aubrey put up the funds."
He raised his brow. "Lending you this car doesn't count as helping. It was more like public service.
If you drove your car, the noise would wake up all of Haverleau."
"It's not that bad - "
"Yeah, if you want to be as obvious as a rhinoceros."
I gave a pointed look at his lime-green coat and bright maroon sweater.
Talk about burning my retinas. "Pot calling kettle."
He glanced at himself. "It's seasonal. I look Christmasy. ~ Emma Raveling

The Community's endorsement of the cultural role of public service broadcasting is useless unless it is guaranteed a central role in the digital platform' (Venturelli, 1998: 215). ~ Anonymous

The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity. ~ Christian Nestell Bovee

When we ask God to leave, He does so. And in the leaving, He takes everything with Him that is of Him. Consequently, that means that we invite in everything that is not of Him. And we might be wise to consider the nature of that invitation and if we really want to extend it. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

She, better than anyone, knew that a soul's sore spots didn't really disappear. They could be buried, defended, and denied, but until they were loved, they wreaked havoc with a person's peace. ~ Karen Witemeyer

Life with God is wilder than the wildest roller coaster ride, and safer than your childhood bedroom. It's more thrilling than the greatest adventure, and more delicious than an Italian cappuccino--if you can even believe it. ~ Stephanie May Wilson

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly ~ Christian Nestell Bovee

I long to look at my holiday season with eyes that see the Christ in Christmas. ~ Ann Marie Stewart

There is no doctrine which I would more willingly remove from Christianity than the doctrine of hell, if it lay in my power. But it has the support of Scripture and, especially, of our Lord's own words; it has always been held by the Christian Church, and it has the support of reason. ~ C.S. Lewis

Dance with your sacred rhythm. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You can't come in here on Sunday, and as a Christian, subscribe to this belief of dignity of every human being and say I will seek justice and peace on the earth, and continue to go with the prosecution using that kind of evidence. ~ Mohamedou Ould Slahi

The great GOD is a tower of refuge to the poor.
The great GOD is a tower of refuge to the needy in distress. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Let Christians all understand that conscience is between themselves and God alone. They are not at liberty to impose even their freedom of conscience upon another; but by the laws of the kingdom of Christ, they are obliged even to refrain at times from exercising their own freedom, out of consideration for others. ~ Ellet J. Waggoner

Only one spirit, either good or bad, can operate at a time. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

People used to blush when they were ashamed. Now they are ashamed if they blush. Modesty has disappeared and a brazen generation with no fear of God before its eyes mocks at sin. We are so fond of being called tolerant and broadminded that we wink at sin when we ought to weep. ~ Vance Havner

Some of our finest work comes through service to others. ~ Gordon B. Hinckley

Of course we're Christian. The very name of the church declares that. The more people see us and come to know us, the more I believe they will come to realize that we are trying to exemplify in our lives and in our living the great ideals which (Jesus Christ) taught. ~ Gordon B. Hinckley

The key is love, the action is service, and the joy is knowing the grandeur that is God in us and in everything. ~ Dorothy Maclean

Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians. ~ Michel De Montaigne

God is in charge, and alone sits as the ultimate government over His creation. All other governments are then to reflect His ultimate rule. ~ Tony Evans

I would argue that the truth of Easter does not depend on whether there was an empty tomb, or whether anything happened to the body of Jesus ... I do not see the Christian tradition as exclusively true, or the Bible as the unique and infallible revelation of God ... It makes no historical sense to say, 'Jesus was killed for the sins of the world.' ... I am one of those Christians who does not believe in the virgin birth, nor in the star of Bethlehem, nor in the journeys of the wisemen, nor in the shepherds coming to the manger, as facts of history. ~ Marcus Borg

Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. (8:32) ~ The Gospel According To John

In this country, two things stand first in rank: your flag and your mail. You all know what honor you pay to your flag, but you should know, also, that your mail, - just that ordinary postal card - is also important. But a postal card, or any form of mail, is not important, in that way, until you drop it through a slot in this building, and with a stamp on it, or into a mail box outdoors. Up to that instant it is but a common card, which anybody can pick up and carry off without committing a criminal act. But as soon as it is in back of this partition, or in a mail box, a magical transformation occurs; and anybody who now should willfully purloin it, or obstruct its trip in any way, will find prison doors awaiting him. What a frail thing ordinary mail is! A baby could rip it apart, but no adult is so foolish as to do it. That small stamp which you stick on it, is, you might say, a postal official, going right along with it, having it always in his sight. ~ Ernest Vincent Wright

The religious foundations of America have been completely expurgated from our history textbooks. ~ D. James Kennedy

I am appalled by the great injustice being perpetrated by those Jewish organizations that engage in anti-Christian bigotry. ~ Daniel Lapin

Our humble service attitude in our life is what determines what effect chanting will have on our consciousness. Otherwise we can be chanting for millions and millions of births before we actually achieve the goal. ~ Radhanath Swami

Leading Christian theologians such as Augustine and Aquinas were not what today might be called 'strict constructionists.' Rather, they celebrated reason as the means to gain greater insight into divine intentions. ~ Rodney Stark

We should naturally expect that the baptism of infants, if enjoined at all, would have been enjoined in the law which instituted the ordinance of Christian baptism. But this law is silent on the subject of infants. ~ Adoniram Judson

No matter what you do each day ... or in life ... doing things God's way is a matter of the heart. ~ Elizabeth George

It's a very, very tough market.
So unless you do a really good job, you buy the right products from the manufacturers, you service the customer, they keep coming back, they bring their friends in, it's all about numbers, numbers, numbers. ~ John Ilhan

A saint realizes that it is God who engineers his circumstances; consequently there are no complaints, only unrestrained surrender to Jesus. ~ Oswald Chambers

Reading Christians are growing Christians. When Christians cease to read, they cease to grow. ~ John Wesley

I don't know how many serious Christians exist here in America, but the Japanese, the younger generation is leaving the Buddhist religion mentality behind. ~ Hiroshi Sugimoto

Architecture has a strong link with the movies in terms of time progression, sequencing, framing, all of that. ~ Christian De Portzamparc

Christianity is not a set of beliefs or doctrines one believes in order to be a Christian, but rather Christianity is to have one's body shaped, one's habits determined, in such a way that the worship of God is unavoidable. ~ Stanley Hauerwas

His enemies had counted on the lions taking care of Daniel. What they hadn't counted on was his God taking care of Daniel. ~ Tony Evans

My name be Clark Davis", he hurried on,"an it peers to me thet you an' me be in need of one another". ~ Janette Oke