Quotes On Service

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely, and the unwanted according to the graces we have received, and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in—that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.