Serving Quotes - Page 17

• A world filled with temptations needs priests who are totally dedicated to their mission. Accordingly, they are asked in a very special way to open themselves fully to serving others as Christ did by embracing the gift of celibacy.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Temptation, Special, Needs

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• Some people love money and get into politics. If they love money so much, they should get into commerce, industry, or do whatever they want - it's no sin. But politics is for serving the people.

  Jose Mujica

  Money, People, Want

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• Medicaid protects impoverished children, the frail elderly and people in crisis, .. Its limited resources will be further stretched serving hurricane victims. Proponents of Medicaid cuts either undervalue Medicaid assistance or underestimate American compassion.

  Sherrod Brown

  Children, Cutting, Compassion

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• I used to believe the government was the answer to all our problems. But the . . .government, I've concluded, is now aninsufferable jungle of self-serving bureaucrats.

  Chet Huntley

  Believe, Government, Self

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• The highest degree of meekness consists in seeing, serving, honoring, and treating amiably, on occasion, those who are not to our taste, and who show themselves unfriendly, ungrateful, and troublesome to us.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Ungrateful, Taste, Degrees

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• We decided that our first job was to help the schools serving the children from the very lowest income groups. Those families constitute the number one burden, the number one burden in this Nation on the school systems.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Jobs, Children

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.227, Best Books on

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• Now I am not unpatriotic, and I want to do my bit, so I hereby offer my services to my President, my country and my friends to do anything, outside of serving on a commission, that I can in this great movement. But you will have to give me some idea of where "confidence" is. And just who you want it restored to.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Business, Ideas

  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• Many Christians suffer from loneliness because they are sitting instead of serving.

  Croft M. Pentz

  Christian, Loneliness, Suffering

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• Indeed, one of the most frightening consequences of the Holocaust may well be that rather than serving as a warning to preserve humanity at all cost, it has provided a license to privilege physical survival over moral existence.

  Omer Bartov

  Holocaust, Humanity, Survival

  Omer Bartov (2000). “Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide, and Modern Identity”, p.176, Oxford University Press

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• If you aren't serving, you're just existing, because life is meant for ministry.

  Rick Warren

  Ministry, Life Is, Ifs

  Rick Warren (2012). “The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?”, p.211, Zondervan

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• Because the eternal principle of agency gives us the freedom to choose and think for ourselves, we should become increasingly able to solve problems. We may make the occasional mistake, but as long as we are following gospel principles and guidelines, we can learn from those mistakes and become more understanding of others and more effective in serving them.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Mistake, Thinking, Agency

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• Serving in Congress has been the honor of a lifetime.

  Bob Ehrlich

  Aggravation, Honor, Lifetime

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• Remember that mentor leadership is all about serving.

  Tony Dungy

  Mentor, Remember

  Tony Dungy (2010). “The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently”, p.43, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• It is impossible to serve God without serving one another.

  Alistair Begg

  Impossible, Serving God

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• With faith . . . we must walk to the edge of the light and into the darkness. As we so walk I testify and promise that the light will move. When I was your age and wondering some of the exact same things that you are now wondering, I never would have imagined that someday [we] would be at Ricks College serving as we are. . . . I know the light moves as we walk in faith to the edge of the light.

  David A. Bednar

  Faith, Moving, College

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• We can find meaning and reward by serving some higher purpose than ourselves, a shining purpose, the illumination of a Thousand Points of Light...We all have something to give.

  George H. W. Bush

  Light, Illumination, Giving

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• It seems to me that we spend an inordinate amount of time and attention on fixing ourselves when we could really be directing that out to serving others.

  Eve Ensler

  Attention, Fixing, Serving Others

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• I do not know how to love God except by loving the poor. I do not know how to serve God except by serving the poor.... Here, within this great city of nine million people, we must, in this neighborhood, on this street, in this parish, regain a sense of community which is the basis for peace in the world.

  Dorothy Day

  Cities, People, Community

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• If we can fall in love with serving people, creating value, solving problems, building valuable connections and doing work that matters, it makes it far more likely we're going to do important work

  Seth Godin

  Falling In Love, Creating Value, People

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• It is by serving God and others that we store up heavenly treasures. Everyone gains; no one loses.

  Randy Alcorn

  Treasure, Gains, Stores

  Randy Alcorn (2003). “The Law of Rewards”, p.67, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Serving God doesn’t mean we’ll no longer have difficulties. We’re still on the battlefield, but we don’t have to fight alone.

  Joyce Meyer

  Mean, Fighting, Difficulty

  Twitter post from Jan 3, 2013

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• But there's no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We're not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it's hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.

  Banksy

  Artist, Self, Views

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• One of the greatest rewards that we ever receive for serving God is the permission to do still more for Him.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Rewards, Permission, Serving God

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• Repentance is more than just sorrow for the past; repentance is a change of mind and heart, a new life of denying self and serving the Savior as king in self's place.

  J. I. Packer

  Kings, Heart, Past

  J. I. Packer, Mark Dever (2008). “Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God”, p.79, InterVarsity Press

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• The Lord has a great work for each of us to do. You may wonder how this can be. You may feel that there is nothing special or superior about you or your ability. ... The Lord can do remarkable miracles with a person of ordinary ability who is humble, faithful, and diligent in serving the Lord and seeks to improve himself. This is because God is the ultimate source of power.

  James E. Faust

  Humble, Miracle, Faithful

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