Serving Others Quotes

Every time we reach in to the cave of our loving heart and deliver an act of kindness, and touch another, we are truly sending a beautiful arrow of our love from our heart straight in to God's heart. When we purely serve another - whether it's someone hurting and confused, the cranky person at work, or the slightly strange elderly woman we help up the elevator - we are actually serving the beauty of God who lives within that person. In essence, we are magnificently surrendering to a higher and divine Love. My dear friends, lets be those beautiful instruments of that divine love. Lets open our wings and deliver small acts of everyday kindness, no matter how big or small. Remember, this divine love; is never wasted. It only flows out and becomes a great big ocean of oneness love for all ~ Angie Karan

What a vicious circle we can put ourselves in: we have come to accept the notion of "fix me first," when part of the essential fixing we all need is to be compassionately involved with others. ~ Bo Lozoff

A servant who serves excellently from his whole heart with due courage and humility is never a servant, but a master of his work! ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Every family should have a room where Christ is welcome in the person of the hungry and thirsty stranger. ~ Saint John Chrysostom

The only joy in this hard life is serving others. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

In sharing how God is changing our lives, we find the lives of others changed as well. ~ Dillon Burroughs

As to the kindness you mention, I wish I could have been of more service to you than I have been, but if I had, the only thanks that I should desire are that you would always be ready to serve any other person that may need your assistance, and so let good offices go around, for humankind are all of a family. As for my own part, when I am employed in serving others I do not look upon myself as conferring favors but paying debts. ~ Benjamin Franklin

J.J. Moses was a star football player in college. He was drafted by the Houston Texans and played for them for six years. He was the kick returner and punt returner. He was as fast as lightning! When he had the ball, he electrified fans, darting here and there. He was amazing to watch.
Playing in the National Football League in front of millions of fans, J.J. was at the pinnacle of success. But during the off seasons--and any time he didn't have a game--do you know where J.J. was every Saturday night?
J.J. was not at home with his feet up. He was not out enjoying his celebrity. He was at our church in Houston, serving others as an usher, helping people to their seats, showing visitors around, passing the offering plates, and making everyone feel welcome.
Many of those who came to church didn't know he was a star football player. In the stadium all the lights were on him. Fans wanted his autograph or pictures with him. J.J. could have allowed his fame to go to his head and thought, "I'm big-time, I'm not serving as an usher. I'm not waiting on people--I want them to wait on me."
Instead, J.J. told me, "My greatest honor was not playing in front of eighty thousand people in the stadium each week. My greatest honor was ushering in my section at Lakewood every Saturday night."
J.J. offers testimony to the fact that you are never too big to serve, never too important, never too influential. ~ Joel Osteen

The leader turns the pyramid onto its head in order to serve others. ~ Ken Jennings

Are you serving others or your are being served by others? ~ Saji Ijiyemi

The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals. ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel

Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity. ~ Pope John Paul II

If you want a great life, it doesn't just come from success, having a bigger house, or more accomplishments. There's nothing wrong with those things. God wants you to be blessed. But if you want to truly be fulfilled, you have to develop the habit of serving others.
You were created to give. You were created to make the lives of others better. Someone needs what you have. Someone needs your love. Someone needs your smile. Someone needs your encouragement and your gifts.
When you serve others, there will be a satisfaction that money can't buy. You'll feel a peace, a joy, a strength, and a fulfillment that only God can give. ~ Joel Osteen

Life is so much better when your passion and calling line up. You understand the gift of your spiritual inheritance, assume responsibility for right and just choices, and you pour your signature presence into serving others. ~ Gloria Burgess

Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have them yourself. ~ Saint Augustine

Our legacy is not found in all the 'stuff' we've accumulated on our life's journey. It's written in the memories of those whose lives we've touched along the way. ~ Justin Young

The opportunity to serve is everywhere if the heart is seeking and there is a willingness to take action. ~ Henry Hon

Rule with the heart of a servant. Serve with the heart of a king. ~ Bill Johnson

True patriots believe that we should measure a citizen's worth by contribution to country and community, not by wealth or power-that those whom America has benefited most should contribute in proportion to their good fortune-and that serving others should be esteemed more highly than serving self. ~ Eric Liu

Being on a mission-not thinking about myself and focusing on serving other people-is what brought me closer to God than anything else. ~ David Archuleta

A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back-but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you. ~ Marian Wright Edelman

Stewarding my time is not about selfishly pursuing only the things I like to do. It's about effectively serving others in the ways I'm best able to serve and in the ways I am most uniquely called to serve. ~ Kevin DeYoung

Why don't people ask us about our hope? The answer is probably that we look as if we hope in the same things they do. Our lives don't look like they are on the Calvary road, stripped down for sacrificial love, serving others with the sweet assurance that we don't need to be rewarded in this life. ~ John Piper

You are in the business of serving other people as you stand in the service of your destiny and express yourself through your work. ~ Michael Port

It is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelet in the pan for the love of God. ~ Brother Lawrence

True charity consists in putting up with all one's neighbors fault's; never being surprised by his weakness, and being inspired by the least of his virtues. ~ Therese Of Lisieux

I had learned volleyball in the Navy, where all the captains and admirals wanted to be spikers, and I found then that a man who can subdue his own desires and master the art of serving others can make himself invaluable. In choosing sides the team captain always chose the good spikers on the first and second choice, but then the spikers would grab his arm and whisper, 'Take Michener.' I was never chosen lower than third, because I was needed. I wasn't good, but I was faithful. ~ James A. Michener

Because the Lord hears their cries and feels your deep compassion for them, He has from the beginning of time provided ways for His disciples to help. He has invited His children to consecrate their time, their means, and themselves to join with Him in serving others. ~ Henry B. Eyring

Serving others prepares you to lead others. ~ Jim George

Within that tired body, lies a soul so persistent in love, repentant in serving others before yourself. I see the person who can sympathize all layers of the human experience. I see you. ~ Karen A. Baquiran

The rich man who gives to the poor does not bestow alms but pays a debt. ~ Ambrose

If it were given to a man to see virtue's reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect, memory and will in nothing but good works, careless of danger or fatigue. ~ John Of The Cross

Every single person on the planet is rewarded for one thing and one thing only, and that is for serving other people. The more you serve others, the higher your reward. ~ Larry Winget

Now the only way you can serve God on earth is by serving others. ~ Rick Warren

I never looked at the masses as my responsibility. I can only love one person at a time. So I began. I picked up one person. Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand. ~ Mother Teresa

The deep happiness that marriage can bring, then, lies on the far side of sacrificial service in the power of the Spirit. That is, you only discover your own happiness after each of you has put the happiness of your spouse ahead of your own, in a sustained way, in response to what Jesus has done for you. Some will ask, "If I put the happiness of my spouse ahead of my own needs - then what do I get out of it?" The answer is - happiness. That is what you get, but a happiness through serving others instead of using them, a happiness that won't be bad for you. It is the joy that comes from giving joy, from loving another person in a costly way. ~ Timothy Keller

Serving others is the best way of applying our faith in such a way that it leads to real transformation and change. ~ Bob Roberts Jr.

I belong to America, as much as I belong to Russia - I belong to England, as much as I belong to France - I belong to Bulgaria, as much as I belong to Turkey - I belong to India, as much as I belong to Pakistan, Bangladesh and so on. I belong to every nation on this planet. Every country is my country - every culture is my culture - every history is my history. One who sacrifices the self in the service of others, no longer sees any separation whatsoever between the self and the rest of the world - it all becomes one. ~ Abhijit Naskar

If she had been born a hundred years later, she would very likely have been encouraged to be angry, told she had a right to express her anger and her sorrow and her bewilderment and her rage, and generally to disintegrate. These were not the expectations of her friends and family. Nothing could have been further from her expectations of herself. Instead, she threw herself into serving others. ~ Elisabeth Elliot

There's nothing more important in this world than caring for a child. ~ Seth Adam Smith

When you surrender completely to God, as the only truth worth having, you find yourself in service of all that exists. It becomes your joy and recreation. You never tire of serving others. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Nature did not blend things so inextricably that you can't draw your own boundaries - place your own well-being in your own hands. It's quite possible to be a good man without anyone realizing it. Remember that. And this too: you don't need much to live happily. And just because you've abandoned your hopes of becoming a great thinker or scientist, don't give up on attaining freedom, achieving humility, serving others, obeying God. ~ Marcus Aurelius

The happiest people I know live lives that revolve around serving others, not themselves. ~ Tim Elmore

Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them what to do. Fortunately, most human behavior is learned observationally through modeling: from observing others one forms an idea of how new behaviors are performed, and on later occasions this coded information serves as a guide for action. ~ Albert Bandura

Financial security doesn't come from the amount of money you currently have; it comes from your ability to get more of it whenever you want ... Master the art of serving others and you will secure your financial future. ~ Michael Neill

Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others. ~ Ludwig Von Mises

I envision a world in which the vast majority of us are actively striving toward our potential by serving others through mediums we are most passionate. ~ Chris Matakas

I'm doing what I think I was put on this earth to do. And I'm really grateful to have something that I'm passionate about and that I think is profoundly important. ~ Marian Wright Edelman

Our God created us to find fulfillment and joy in doing His work, in serving others, in living with the compassion of Jesus in this world. ~ Darlene Zschech

Being faithful to Jesus Christ is the most difficult thing we try to do today. We will be faithful to our work, to serving others, or to anything else; just don't ask us to be faithful to Jesus Christ. Many Christians become very impatient when we talk about faithfulness to Jesus. Our Lord is dethroned more deliberately by Christian workers than by the world. We treat God as if He were a machine designed only to bless us, and we think of Jesus as just another one of the workers. ~ Oswald Chambers

Service is the only path to greatness. ~ Abhijit Naskar

Serve one another with brotherly love. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

As we look ahead into the future, leaders will be those who serve others, actively listen, and daily empower. ~ Farshad Asl

The value of life does not depend upon the place we occupy. It depends upon the way we occupy that place. ~ Therese Of Lisieux

The steadily inward look leads us all to death, nations as well as persons, and is equally infantile in them all. Perhaps the most useful thing I have learned in my lifetime is that the process of maturing gradually turns the mind away from the small-self to the greater-self that is only served by serving others. ~ Margery Wilson

A world filled with temptations needs priests who are totally dedicated to their mission. Accordingly, they are asked in a very special way to open themselves fully to serving others as Christ did by embracing the gift of celibacy. ~ Pope Benedict XVI

Rather than remain a sealed jar, she sought only to pour herself out to others. Everything she did mirrored her faith. It was as though every waking hour of the day she was devoted to pleasing her God by serving others. This God that she worshiped consumed her. It didn't ask for a brief visit to a temple, or a small votive offering of food or coin, or a few prayers every now and then. This God wanted all of her. ~ Francine Rivers

Ministry means the ongoing attempt to put one's own search for God, with all the moments of pain and joy, despair and hope, at the disposal of those who want to join this search but do not know how. ~ Henri J.M. Nouwen

But if the 1 percent and the 0.1 percent are respected and allowed to risk their wealth - and new rebels are allowed to rise up and challenge them - America will continue to be the land where the last regularly become the first by serving others. ~ George Gilder

The best kind of happiness is a habit you're passionate about. ~ Shannon L. Alder

I urge you my dear sibling, to offer your body and mind as a living holy sacrifice to the service of humanity, for this is true worship. ~ Abhijit Naskar

The state of marriage is one that requires more virtue and constancy than any other; it is a perpetual exercise in mortification. ~ Saint Francis De Sales

Selling is a form of serving the needs of others. ~ Troy Clark

There is a grand union beyond nationalism which serves all people, and which is rooted in what is real, versus what has been created or produced. ~ Bryant McGill

When you are genuinely preoccupied in serving others using your talent and experience, doors that you have never knocked start to open up... ~ Assegid Habtewold

As a former cop, I respect and appreciate those who've dedicated their lives to serving others as well as those who appreciate the rule of law and honor it. ~ Dave Reichert

I learnt a lot about coaching from observing other coaches. I would recommend that they attend coaching courses and coach development opportunities wherever possible ~ Rebecca Bulley

In doing your best serving others for free, a lot of eyebrows will raise and sneers will curve many a - faces. But in the end those incredulous to what you put up with to help, no longer matter. It's not between you and those snobs, but with whom you have given your hand to lift, and of course to God who Is watching and noting it in your book. ~ Mother Teresa

The theory of servant leadership is vital, but it's the active Serving Leader that makes the critical difference. ~ Ken Jennings

Do not shift your focus from serving others to focusing exclusively on school, work, or social activities. ~ M. Russell Ballard

You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation. ~ Marian Wright Edelman

We may be excused for not always being bright, but we are not excused for not being gracious, yielding and considerate. ~ Saint Francis De Sales

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

I am never weary of being useful ... In serving others I cannot do enough. No labor is sufficient to tire me. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

It is true that even when exhausted you still are providing something to those you serve. But you are out of touch with your deepest strengths, role-modelling self-destructive behaviour, martyring yourself, and giving others cause for guilt. ~ Elaine N. Aron

Joy is produced in our hearts when we know that God loves us, when we have a close relationship with Him through reading His Word, praying, and desiring to honor Him in all that we do, and by serving others. ~ Billy Graham

The most important question that we should ask is, "How can I serve? ~ Debasish Mridha

Among the gifts of serving others, then, is that we ourselves find our place of belonging. ~ Reggie McNeal

The American Dream means giving it your all, trying your hardest, accomplishing something. And then I'd add to that, giving something back. No definition of a successful life can do anything but include serving others. ~ George H. W. Bush

Peace begins with a smile-smile five times a day at someone you really don't want to smile at. Do it for Peace. ~ Mother Teresa

One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world. ~ Ann Radcliffe

Leadership is the act of serving others and has no gender preference. ~ Farshad Asl

Many people view leadership the same way they view success, hoping to go as far as they can, to climb the ladder, to achieve the highest position possible for their talent. But contrary to conventional thinking, I believe the bottom line in leadership isn't how far we advance ourselves but how far we advance others. That is achieved by serving others and adding value to their lives. ~ John C. Maxwell

Every reality before your eyes was once imagined in the mind of one person. No matter who judges or knocks your dream, pay no attention to them. Instead, create what you imagine, and you will then be amazed at the Divine creative capacity you do have that will be well remembered for serving others. ~ Barbara Rose

I strongly believe that nothing is more spiritual than living at our highest potential while serving others. I believe that the more closely aligned we are to "spirit" the more fully we will give ourselves in service to the world. As such, my "spiritual path" is the path that leads me to a more complete manifestation of my unique Bodhisattvic duties. ~ Brian Johnson

There is great joy in leading with authority, which is serving others by meeting their legitimate needs. ~ James Hunter

The church is the real thing when it is not consumed with the assertion of power in culture, but it is driven by service to others. The word ministry translates the Greek word diakonia, which means service. The church must be about serving others. When a church can lay claim to all three criteria, namely, preaching of the Word, being true to its confession, and focusing on serving, then it's a church worth going to. And then it's a church full of sermons worth listening to. ~ Stephen J. Nichols

It seems to me that we spend an inordinate amount of time and attention on fixing ourselves when we could really be directing that out to serving others, ~ Eve Ensler

We must make our homes centers of compassion and forgive endlessly. ~ Mother Teresa

We have to humble ourselves and the way you do that is by serving other people. ~ Tim Tebow

Try going out of your comfort zone and doing something for someone else. ~ Henry Hon

Football became my obvious metaphor as it does for many, and I began to equate this as being 'halftime' in my life. As I reflected on my professional life I realized how much time I had spent trying to make first downs and score touchdowns. My focus had now changed into trying to be more about people and serving others. ~ Marc Trestman

If God gave you a strong personality it's for serving others not controlling them. ~ Jimmy Evans

He who loses an opportunity is like the man who lets a bird fly from his hand, for he will never recover it. ~ John Of The Cross

Commitment is the demonstrated will to deliver for the people around you. ~ Jv Venable

If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything. ~ Teresa Of Avila

May God teach us to enjoy serving others as a sign of our love for Him. - Pat Stockett Johnston - ~ Gary Chapman

The country is in deep trouble. We've forgotten that a rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it. We need the courage to question the powers that be, the courage to be impatient with evil and patient with people, the courage to fight for social justice. In many instances we will be stepping out on nothing, and just hoping to land on something. But that's the struggle. To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word. ~ Cornel West

Freely we serve, because freely we love. ~ John Milton

Taking care of your own family is good, taking care of your neighbor's family is better and taking care of all the families in your neighborhood is the best. ~ Abhijit Naskar