Life of Service Quotes

Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling.

My mother taught me that to maximize your philanthropic potential, you need to constantly challenge your capabilities and put yourself in situations that are not always comfortable. Through her example, I discovered that there is no more beautiful way to live a life than to live a life of service.

There were a number of books about Bill Wilson, and by him, but a lot of the basic biographical tasks had not been done.

Traveling around the world and preaching for over 70 years did not give much time for reflection.

The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.

A growing community must integrate three elements: a life of silent prayer, a life of service and above all of listening to the poor, and a community life through which all its members can grow in their own gift.

If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course to keep within the limits of what seems permissible to the world), we shall find it hard to train for the service of Christ. When the flesh is satisfied it is hard to pray with cheerfulness or to devote oneself to a life of service which calls for much self-renunciation.

Christians need jobs just like anybody else, but the years you spend as an undergraduate are like everything else in your life. They're not yours to do with as you please. They're Christ's.