272 Quotes About Service

Man's greatest honor and privilege is to do the will of God. This was what the Lord Jesus taught His disciples. He once said that only those who did His Father's will would enter the kingdom of Heaven (Matt. 7:21). He also said that His true brothers and sisters were those who did the will of God (Matt. 12:50).

If you know that God loves you, you should never question a directive from Him. It will always be right and best. When He gives you a directive, you are not just to observe it, discuss it, or debate it. You are to obey it.

If God called us to a task, He will then qualify us for the job.

The measure of a men's greatness is not the number of servants he has, but the number of people he serves.

Whenever God calls us to a task, He will equip us and enable us to complete that task.

The best way to do ourselves good is to be doing good to others; the best way to gather is to scatter.

Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works.

Prayer is of transcendent importance. Prayer is the mightiest agent to advance God's work. Praying hearts and hands only can do God's work. Prayer succeeds when all else fails.

Have you been holding back from a risky, costly course to which you know in your heart God has called you? Hold back no longer. Your God is faithful to you, and adequate for you. You will never need more than He can supply, and what He supplies, both materially and spiritually, will always be enough for the present.

God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supplies.

Those that God used in the past were just ordinary people with an extraordinary Master. They were not all champions of great faith, but little people who saw their own need, and put their small faith in a great God.

Expect great things from God. Attempt great things for God.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

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.

What is God's remedy for dejection at apparent failure in our labors? This - the assurance that God's purpose cannot fail, that God's plans cannot miscarry, that God's will must be done. Our labors are not intended to bring about that which God has not decreed.

God does not love men that are inconstant, nor good works that are intermitted. Nothing is pleasing to him, but what has a resemblance of his own immutability.

God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners.

Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.

A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilization.

We need to realize that in all things our first duty and responsibility is to God Himself.

If what they are saying about you is true, mend your ways. If it isn't true, forget it, and go on and serve the Lord.

Too many people today ask God 'where' instead of 'what.'

The flesh everything that you do apart from Him "profiteth nothing" (John 6:63), and there is always the awful possibility, if you do not discover this principle, that you may spend a lifetime in the service of Jesus Christ doing nothing!

A non-serving Christian is a contradiction in terms.