Acts Of Service Quotes:

Great opportunities are often disguised as small acts of service.

- Rick Warren

topic: Opportunity, Acts Of Service, Great Opportunity, Small Acts

You can will an act of service but you cannot will love.

- Anthony de Mello

source: "One Minute Nonsense". Book by Anthony de Mello, p. 114, 1992.

topic: Acts Of Service

Often small acts of service are all that is required to lift and bless another.

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

topic: Small Acts, Bless, Acts Of Service

I know sanctification comes not with any particular calling, but with genuine acts of service, often for which there is no specific calling.

- Neal A. Maxwell

topic: Calling, Genuine, Acts Of Service

Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost, a way to reclaim that spirit of unity that followed 9/11.

- Barack Obama

topic: Kindness, Patriotic, Unity, Acts Of Service, Remembrance For 9 11

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: "The Power of Purpose: Find Meaning, Live Longer, Better". Book by Richard Leider, p. 35., 2010.

topic: Encouragement, Freedom, Business, Way In Life, Social Good

There is no such thing as a simple act of compassion or an inconsequential act of service. Everything we do for another person has infinite consequences.

- Caroline Myss

topic: Simple, Compassion, Infinite, Acts Of Service, Inconsequential

In life, it is never the big battle, the big moment, the big speech, the big election. That does not change things. What changes things is every day, getting up and rendering small acts of service and love beyond that what's expected of you or required of you.

- Cory Booker

topic: Love Is, Battle, Speech, Acts Of Service, Small Acts

When we think of work, we think of work as an act of service. We think of it as an act of love for humanity.

- Justin Rosenstein

topic: Thinking, Humanity, Acts Of Love, Love For Humanity, Acts Of Service

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Positive, Social Entrepreneurship, Making A Difference In The World

By becoming the answer to someone's prayer, we often find the answer to our own.

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

topic: Prayer, Answers, Becoming, Acts Of Service, Consecration

I've observed over and over that people seem to get a much deeper sense of fulfillment out of something they've done as an act of service than out of the things they do for themselves.

- Edward Norton

topic: Inspirational, People, Done, Acts Of Service

I have learned that it is by serving that we learn how to serve. When we engaged in the service of our fellowmen, not only do our deeds assist them but we put our own problems in fresher perspective. When we concern ourselves more with others, there is less time to be concerned with ourselves

- Spencer W. Kimball

source: Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

topic: Perspective, Deeds, Problem, Acts Of Service, Selfless Service

God uses millions of no-name influencers every day in the simplest selfless acts of service.  They are the teachers whose names will never be in the newspaper, pastors who will never author a book, managers who will never be profiled in a magazine, artists whose work is buried in layers of collaboration, writers whose sphere of influence is a few dozen people who read their blogs.  But they are the army that makes things happen.  To them devotion is its own reward.  For them influence is a continual act of giving, nothing more complicated than that.

- Mel Lawrenz

topic: Teacher, Book, Army, Sphere Of Influence, Acts Of Service

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

- Peter Ustinov

topic: Love, Life, Marriage, Endless Love, Inspirational Forgiveness

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

- John F. Kennedy

source: Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Country, Inaugural Speech, Independence Day Patriotic

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

- Marian Wright Edelman

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Paying Rent, Volunteerism

Often small acts of service are all that is required to lift and bless another: a question concerning a person's family, quick words of encouragement, a sincere compliment, a small note of thanks, a brief telephone call. If we are observant and aware, and if we act on the promptings which come to us, we can accomplish much good.

- Thomas S. Monson

topic: Encouragement, Small Acts, Telephones, Observant, Acts Of Service

Day-to-day acts of service, whether for good or evil, may not seem important, but they are building cords of love that become so strong they can seldom be broken. Ours is to place our areas of love in proper perspective. Meaningful love always works for our eternal progress and not against it.

- Marvin J. Ashton

topic: Meaningful, Strong, Evil, Acts Of Service

A sincere soul is not trying to make a show. His enthusiasm is an act of service.

- Radhanath Swami

topic: Soul, Trying, Enthusiasm, Acts Of Service

Service is God. Why has God endowed man with a body, a mind and an intellect ? Feel with the mind, plan with the intelligence and use the body to serve those who are in need of service. Offer that act of service to God; worship home with that Flower.

- Sathya Sai Baba

topic: Flower, Home, Men, Acts Of Service, Service To God

Marriage is not an act of services. It is a comfort man or woman seeks for himself or herself.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Women, Men, Comfort, Acts Of Service

It is vital that we serve each other in the kingdom. . . . So often, our acts of service consist of simple encouragement or of giving . . . help with mundane tasks, but what glorious consequences can flow . . . from small but deliberate deeds!

- Spencer W. Kimball

source: Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

topic: Encouragement, Simple, Giving, Acts Of Service, Giving Help

Often the answer to our prayer does not come while we're on our knees, but while we're on our feet serving the Lord and serving those around us.

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

topic: Prayer, Feet, Doe, Spiritual Eyes, Acts Of Service

Each heartfelt prayer, each Church meeting attended, each worthy friend, each righteous decision, each act of service perfomed all precede that goal of eternal life.

- Thomas S. Monson

topic: Prayer, Goal, Decision, Acts Of Service

Do not consider any act of service as demeaning. Sweeping the streets, for example, is not below your dignity. Do you not sweep the floor of your homes? Do you not scrub and wash off dirt? When you undertake such tasks, the villagers will also gladly share in them. Why feel ashamed to be good? The ridicule that may be cast on you has been the reward of many saints. It will soon fade away. Muhammad was driven out of Mecca by those who could not appreciate his teachings. Jesus was crucified. But their names resound in the heart of millions.

- Sathya Sai Baba

topic: Jesus, Teaching, Heart, Acts Of Service, Demeaning

The mother must set the example in holding out the shrine as the heart of the house hold! She must enforce discipline over the children in personal cleanliness in humility and hospitality, in good manners and acts of service.

- Sathya Sai Baba

topic: Mother, Children, Humility, Acts Of Service

Widen your shriveled heart, make the interests of others your own and serve them as much as you can by sympathy, kindness, presents and so forth. So long as one enjoys the things of this world and has needs and wants, it is necessary to minister to the needs of one's fellow men. Otherwise one cannot be called a human being. Whenever you have the opportunity, give to the poor, feed the hungry, nurse the sick - do service as a religious duty and you will come to know by direct perception that the person served, the one who serves and the act of service are separate only in appearance.

- Anandamayi Ma

topic: Religious, Kindness, Heart, Acts Of Service, Needs And Wants

If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody.

- Rob Bell

source: Rob Bell (2006). “Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith”, p.167, Harper Collins

topic: News, Acts Of Service, Expecting Nothing In Return

Perhaps the highest goodness attainable is a life of service to all mankind. Such an ideal is supported in nearly every page in the Gospels-the parables, the sermons, and the countless acts of service by our Lord Himself. The ideal is not limited to any particular kind of service, nor a given quantity of service. The ideal is accepting life itself as a trust to be used in the welfare of mankind. It is a life that is glad for the chance to be of any help, an attitude that 'service is the rent we pay for our own room on earth.' (Lord Halifax)

- Obert C. Tanner

topic: Attitude, Rooms, Earth, Halifax, Acts Of Service

My beloved young friends, determine to serve one another. Opportunities for Christian acts of service do not always come at convenient times. Listen to the spirit when your flesh is weak. For truly the Master said, "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me" (Matt. 25:40). The blessings are tenfold when we do those good, kindly acts of Christian service when it is inopportune or not convenient.

- Vaughn J Featherstone

topic: Christian, Opportunity, Blessing, Another Opportunity, Christian Service