Service Quotes - Page 3

We are meant to do the work of angels for we are often disguised from ourSelves.

Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself- to serve.

All I’m saying is that I want you to be happy. I don’t care how it happens, or what it takes to facilitate it. I don’t care if it happens with me or without me. I don’t care if you use me to get there, or if I’m entirely irrelevant to your process. None of me is attached to how your happiness happens; I care only that it does.

Your willingness to serve God is as important as your service to God.

As a human being, I know of no greater example of success than someone who is self-sustaining through using his passion in the service of others.

The little waiter's eyebrows wandered about his forehead in confusion.

In this marvelous dispensation of the fulness of times, our opportunities to give of ourselves are indeed limitless, but they are also perishable.

The greatest gift you can give is your time.  Not money, not items, not food, not pretty cards with handwritten sentiment, but time.  People need your presence.  The way you can help a soul the most is to simply be there.

Love is large, and so forms the heart that embraces it fully.

As I'm smiling but fearing for the worse, he asks if I was in the Navy.
"NO. THIS IS JUST MY HALLOWEEN COSTUME."
"WELL, I WAS... FOR NEARLY TWENTY YEARS."
I don't know whether he wants me to apologize for impersonating a sailor, thank him for his service, or stop drooling as I melt into his eyes

The fearful seek to serve themselves by mastering the world, while the fearless seek to serve the world by mastering themselves.

The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in, becoming narcissistic.

There is a certain loveliness, I think, to performing deep cleaning in one’s underwear on a beautiful summer day.

The incredibly powerful and enriching lifestyle of seeking beauty is a humble service of love and healing.

A true Christian does not judge whether a person is worthy of help, but only judges a need and how to best meet that need.

And yet many of us do it without families," Nynaeve said. "Without love, without passion beyond our own particular interests. So even while we try to guide the world, we separate ourselves from it.We risk arrogance, Egwene. We always assume we know best, but risk making ourselves unable to fathom the people we claim to serve.

May your heart open.
May joy emerge.
May love flow through you.
May you heal and help others.

Service is born out of love not duty.

There is, in fact, no safeword for chemical burns under one’s fingernails.

My plans for the future are to serve more and better, to worry less about the things that are unimportant, to let my wife and children know how much I love them, to openly support whatever I can see is good, to appreciate and to encourage everyone in the best way possible, and, in short, to do more of what makes life meaningful.