Favorite quotes

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of the world is not ?to have and to hold? but ?to give and to serve?. There can be no other meaning.

?Lock up your house, go across the railroad tracks, find somebody in need, and help that person. To overcome discouragement, don?t focus on yourself, get involved in the lives of other people.?

It only stands to reason that where there’s sacrifice, there’s someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there’s service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.

For, stripped of the temporary associations which gave rise to it, it is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it, to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return.

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country?

We must have a citizenship less concerned about what the government can do for it and more anxious about what it can do for the nation.

A single act does make a difference…it creates a ripple effect that can be felt many miles and people away.

When I consider how my light is spent
E’re half my days, in this dark world and wide,
And that one Talent which is death to hide,
Lodg’d with me useless, though my Soul more bent
To serve therewith my Maker, and present
My true account, least he returning chide,
Doth God exact day-labour, light deny’d,
I fondly ask; But patience to prevent
That murmur, soon replies, God doth not need
Either man’s work or his own gifts, who best
Bear his milde yoak, they serve him best, his State
Is Kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed
And post o’re Land and Ocean without rest:
They also serve who only stand and waite.

Our lives are like the talents in the parable of the three stewards. It is something that has been given to us for the time being and we have the opportunity and privilege of doing our best with this precious gift.

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.