Service Quotes - Page 4

Our service for one another is a service to humanity.

A call to duty, a call for service.

By serving humanity, I automatically serve myself.

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what all messiahs really seek: not the chance to serve. This is true even of the pious brethren who carry the gospel to foreign parts.

Serving others is the surest and practical way of channeling your love. There is no love through lip service. If you love humanity, serve…

You reveal your character by what you do with what you have.

EYou reveal your character by what you do with what you have.

We do not see the world through a window, but through a mirror. Everything we discern is comparatively held to the vision with which we see ourselves.

My call to the ministry was not a miraculous or supernatural something. On the contrary it was an inner urge calling me to serve humanity.

No time is better spent than that spent in the service of your fellow man.

Our greatest dreams and desires abide in the mental and spiritual realm. In order to transfer them in the physical plane we need to invert subject and object. You will receive from the world what you deeply long to receive the day when you give to the world what you deeply long to receive. Today could be that day.

Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me - to find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools.

There are some people, she says, not many, who have within them the power to change things. The courage to act in the service of somethin greater than themselves.

People walk in the door because they need you to take care of them - to feed them or fix them.

If you want to find money, focus on people. If you want to lose people, focus on money.

If you make me lunch," he said, "will you put it in a brown paper bag?...Because when I see kids come to school with their lunch in a paper bag, that means that someone cares about them. Miss Laura, can I please have my lunch in a paper bag?

Leaders in all realms and activities of life knew that the power they had come to hold existed because they were responsible to serve the many, thus power was position of service.

Power is meant to be shared with the goal of empowering others. Hoarded power weakens others and exalts oneself. Power, when grounded in biblical values, serves others by liberating them. It acknowledges that people bear the image of God and treats them in a way that will nurture the development of that image. In so doing, we honor their Creator.

Power is to be used in the service of others and only secondarily, if at all, for the benefit of oneself.

The key ingredient in engaging the power available from service is motive.