Top 100 To Serve God Quotes
#1. Catholic schools carry out a great mission, to serve God by building knowledge and character ... By teaching the word of God, you prepare your students to follow a path of virtue.
George W. Bush
#2. I want to be remembered as a great friend, an outstanding father, an amazing husband, and a good soul who always strived to serve God and man. And during that time of service on earth, I would like people to think, "He brought joy, love, opportunity, and fulfillment to millions of people."
Tony Robbins
#4. A good decision is our will to do everything we can within our power. It means to serve God with all we've got, be it little or much. Every person can do that.
Soren Kierkegaard
#5. Your willingness to serve God is as important as your service to God.
Jim George
#6. When a man grows aware of a new way in which to serve God, he should carry it around with him secretly, and without uttering it, for nine months, as though he were pregnant with it, and let others know of it only at the end of that time, as though it were a birth.
Martin Buber
#7. I am not a fairy godmother or anything of that sort, but I hope to give you a happy home and a good education, and to send you out into the world true, brave, generous men, prepared to serve God truly all the days of your life."
~Aunt Persis
Constance Savery
#8. Most of you, therefore, spend the bulk of your adult life searching for the "right" way to worship, to obey, and to serve God. The irony of all this is that I do not want your worship, I do not need your obedience, and it is not necessary for you to serve Me.
Neale Donald Walsch
#9. Only when we're thoroughly convinced that the Christian life is entirely of grace are we able to serve God out of a grateful and loving heart.
Jerry Bridges
#10. I know I have the mental capacity of a thousand bloggers, but because of that, my obligation to serve God is also that of a thousand bloggers.
Mickey Kaus
#11. Ultimately you are doing what you do for one of two reasons: to serve oneself or to serve God. There is enough time in every day to do God's work ... in God's way.
Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom
#12. Men will not understand ... that when they fulfil their duties to men, they fulfil thereby God's commandments; that they are consequently always in the service of God, as long as their
actions are moral, and that it is absolutely impossible to serve God otherwise.
Immanuel Kant
#13. Becoming an object of worship is to serve God for what you can get from him
Sunday Adelaja
#14. We are called to serve God and not to rely on our achievement in ministry
Sunday Adelaja
#15. I'm here to serve God and be of service. I'm nothing; everything out here is a lot bigger than me.
Mike Tyson
#16. Preaching means to awaken the real inclination to serve God.
Radhanath Swami
#17. Balanced service is a virtue to be cherished. There is to be time in our life to serve God, to serve our family, to serve our country and community, to serve our employer. Wise persons budget available time so that no significant area of one's life falls into a state of neglect.
Thomas S. Monson
#18. If you have ever wanted to serve god, go on and serve him. Don't wait to be authorized by anybody. He is not copyrighted
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#19. I gave up my music because I had received from it all I had to receive. To serve God one must sacrifice the dearest thing, and I sacrificed my music, the dearest thing to me.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#20. We should know and celebrate God with our whole person. While too many Christians neglect to serve God with the mind, others cultivate only their minds and neglect the emotional aspects of worship.
Craig S. Keener
#21. There is no single way to serve God, but the point is this: We each have only one life to live to tell a story about Him, about His ways, about His love. And if we are Christ followers, then God calls us to use our gifts, to exercise our faith, and to become salt and light right where we are.
Sally Clarkson
#22. I never thought it would be easy to serve God," she said. "I just didn't think it would be this hard.
Frank Herbert
#23. I'm only here on Earth to serve God. I never had a career. I don't care about commercialism. I have a ministry and I'll fight for the ministry.
Larry Norman
#24. Christianity isn't looking for a rainbow. If it were ... we'd pass out opium at services. We're trying to serve God, not be God.
John Updike
#25. Don't forget Who you are writing for. It's easy to get discouraged when people don't like your writing, but that's just it. They're people. You don't want to serve people, you want to serve God. Write for Him, and ignore what other people say. It just doesn't matter.
Ivy Rose
#27. Marriage doesn't put an end to one's ability to serve God and bring him glory. In fact, I've seen many married couples who have done more for God together than was possible as individuals.
Jody Hedlund
#28. The most revolutionary aspect of the Protestant teaching however, is the fact that the Protestants began to look for ways and means to serve God better through inventions, discoveries, researches, sciences, factories, industries, etc.
Sunday Adelaja
#29. Christianity is hard when we try to serve God in man's way instead of serving God in God's way.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#30. It is easier to serve God without a vision, easier to work for God without a call, because then you are not bothered by what God requires;
Oswald Chambers
#31. Exhort all your household often that all those who serve you shall know to serve God and you, faithfully and painstakingly, and for the will of God to prefer in all things to do your will and pleasure in all things that are not against God.
Robert Grosseteste
#32. It is more honour to serve God, than to have kings serve us.
Thomas Watson
#33. If you are not willing to serve God in the abundance that He has given you, then you will have to serve your enemy in hunger
Sunday Adelaja
#34. When you desire to gratify your senses, that is material life. And when you desire to serve God, that is spiritual life. That is the difference between material life and spiritual life. Now
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
#35. The secret of a happy marriage is to serve God and each other.
Ezra Taft Benson
#36. Each day is precious when we consider what we can do to serve God and His Kingdom.
Elizabeth George
#37. Look after everybody So that they are happy to see you. It is better to serve the devotee of god than to serve god himself.
H.W.L. Poonja
#38. The object of life is not happiness, but to serve God or the Grail. All of the Grail quests are to serve God. If one understands this and drops his idiotic notion that the meaning of life is personal happiness, then one will find that elusive quality immediately at hand.
Robert A. Johnson
#39. No life can surpass that of a man who quietly continues to serve God in the place where providence has placed him.
Charles Spurgeon
#40. All you who draw near to serve God in prayer, learn to be like Him, meek, humble, and true of heart; do not let there be any deceitfulness or duplicity nor coldness in your soul.
John Of Kronstadt
#41. An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
Thomas Fuller
#42. If we wish to serve God and love our neighbor well, we must manifest our joy in the service we render to Him and them. Let us open wide our hearts. It is joy which invites us. Press forward and fear nothing.
Katharine Drexel
#43. [The pioneers] woke up each morning with clearly defined purposes and goals that everyone understood: to serve God.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#44. Prophets have no other purpose, no other mission except to serve God.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#45. It is futile for us to try to serve God without the power of the Holy Spirit. Talent, training, and experience cannot take the place of the power of the Spirit.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#46. To serve God, to love God, to enjoy God, is the sweetest freedom in the world.
Thomas F. Wilson
#49. It's a privilege to serve God. Above all, serving God is joy and happiness!
Sunday Adelaja
#50. It is impossible to serve God without serving one another.
Alistair Begg
#51. The best way to serve God is by going in search of your own dreams. Only the happy can spread happiness.
Paulo Coelho
#53. If we continue to seek learning to serve God and His children better, it is a blessing of great worth. If we begin to seek learning to exalt ourselves alone, it leads to selfishness and pride, which will take us away from eternal life.
Henry B. Eyring
#54. It is within my power either to serve God or not to serve Him. Serving Him, I add to my own good and the good of the whole world. Not serving Him, I forfeit my own good and deprive the world of that good, which was in my power to create.
Leo Tolstoy
#55. Nature exists for man to exploit for his own ends, while the end of man himself is nothing else but to serve God, to be grateful to Him, and to worship Him alone.
Fazlur Rahman
#56. There is one primary purpose of a Christian's business: to serve God.
Larry Burkett
#57. If God's purpose for your job is that you serve the human community, then the way to serve God best is to do the job as well as it can be done.
Timothy Keller
#58. William Perkins said, The end of a man's calling is not to gather riches for himself ... but to serve God in the serving of man, and in the seeking the good of all men.
Leland Ryken
#59. Let us live not only to serve God ourselves; let us live to help our children and their children live for God.
Dillon Burroughs
#60. Religion and practical life are not different. To take sanyas (renunciation) is not to abandon life. The real spirit is to make the country, your family, work together instead of working only for your own. The step beyond is to serve humanity and the next step is to serve God,
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
#61. Humility does not disturb or disquiet or agitate, however great it may be; it comes with peace, delight, and calm ... The pain of genuine humility doesn't agitate or afflict the soul; rather, this humility expands it and enables it to serve God more.
Teresa Of Avila
#62. I believe it's easy to serve God if we learn to hear from Him before we struggle to do things for Him that He never asked us to do.
Joyce Meyer
#63. What is it to serve God and to do His will? Nothing else than to show mercy to our neighbor. For it is our own neighbor who needs our service; God in heaven needs it not.
Martin Luther
#64. So long as we only believe in the justice of the state, of the law-made by those in power, to serve those in power-so long will we continue to be exploited by those in power.
Derrick Jensen
#65. This is not the proper place to begin speaking of this new passion of Ivan Fyodorovich's, which later affected his whole life: it could all serve as the plot for another story, for a different novel, which I do not even know that I shall ever undertake.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#66. A great leader must serve the best interests of the people first, not those of multinational corporations. Human life should never be sacrificed for monetary profit. There are no exceptions.
Suzy Kassem
#67. I just want to serve food that people want to eat, and show a way forward for the restaurant industry, for all industries. One day, everything I've done will be worthwhile.
Arthur Potts Dawson
#68. Learning from books and teachers is like traveling by carriage, so we are told in the Veda. But, the carriage will serve only while one is on the highroad. He who reaches the end of the highroad will leave the carriage and walk afoot.
Johannes Itten
#69. To truly be of service to others, we must first serve the server. The ability to bring an enlightened presence to those in need is the ability to light a candle without burning ourselves out.
Bill Crawford
#70. Like a blood-red sky that warns the passerby, "There is a fire over there," certain blazing looks often reveal passions that they serve merely to reflect. They are flames in the mirror.
Marcel Proust
#71. Something will master and something will serve. Either you run the day or the day runs you; either you run the business or the business runs you.
Jim Rohn
#73. Jesus called disciples so He could send them out as apostles. They were called together to learn so they could be sent out to teach and serve.
Brian D. McLaren
#74. A few primary keys to becoming a leader in business include having a clear intent or purpose, a truly inspiring vision, a grand message to share, a genuine social calling and a targeted niche to serve.
John Frederick Demartini
#76. Neither praise nor dispraise thy selfe, thy actins serve the turne.
[Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn.]
George Herbert
#77. Spirit-led Jesus followers recognize that they are imperfect Christians working with other imperfect Christians to serve a perfect Christ. When we love and give to one another, then we grow as individuals and as the family of God.136
Mark Driscoll
#78. The ideal that marriage aims at is that of spiritual union through the physical. The human love that it incarnates is intended to serve as a stepping stone to diving or universal love.
Mahatma Gandhi
#79. For me, the real thing is make, serve and list in India. Which means we need manufacturing, we need services, and we need financial markets.
Uday Kotak
#80. If you have no opposition in the place you serve, you're serving in the wrong place.
G. Campbell Morgan
#81. I take a backseat to no one in my affection, respect and devotion to veterans. And I will not accept from Senator Obama, who did not feel it was his responsibility to serve our country in uniform, any lectures on my regard for those who did.
John McCain
#82. The Peace Corps is an outstanding organization that promotes peace through helping countless individuals who want to help build a better life for the community in which they serve.
Solomon Ortiz
#83. I give you an ability to respond and your response is to be free to love and serve in every situation, and therefore each moment is different and unique and wonderful.
William P. Young
#84. Passions are like storms which, full of present mischief, serve to purify the atmosphere.
Andrew Michael Ramsay
#85. She handed him his cup of tea ... and he almost longed to ask her to do for him what he saw her compelled to do for her father, who took her little finger and thumb in his masculine hand, and made them serve as suar-tongs.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#86. Force, governmental coercion, is the instrument by which the ethics of altruism - the belief that the individual exists to serve others - is translated into political reality.
Nathaniel Branden
#87. It's the fate of most Ping-Pong tables in home basements eventually to serve the ends of other, more desperate games.
Jonathan Franzen
#88. I was thinking that if I hit his nuts, maybe he would serve like a woman.
Thomas Muster
#89. One of the risks related to an environment marked by high rates of unemployment, low rates of economic growth, and poor education is that it may serve as a breeding ground for radical sentiment.
Frans Cronje
#90. Physicians can't really dictate our protocols. They can inform us to the extent that they can as to what would best serve us, because we're not medical geniuses, no human being is, but intrinsically there is inside of each one of us, the knowing of what's going on.
Maya Tiwari
#91. We too often let the material things serve as indicators that we're doing well, even though something inside us tells us that were not doing our best. That we are avoiding that which is hard, but also necessary. That we are shrinking from rather than rising to the challenges of the age.
Barack Obama
#92. The training area was set up where the tournament would actually be held, since putting together two structures to serve the same purpose would be at the level of idiotic redundancy reserved for the highest halls of government.
Drew Hayes
#93. I never go but where I have some great purpose to serve," returned he, "either in the advancement of my own power and dominion or in thwarting my enemies.
James Hogg
#94. I will sell Chiropractic, serve Chiropractic, and save Chiropractic if it will take me twenty lifetimes to do it. I will promote it within the law, without the law, in keeping with the law or against the law in order to get sick people well and keep the well from getting sick.
B. J. Palmer
#95. I teach 18- to 21-year-olds - the 'Harry Potter' generation. They grew up as voracious readers, reading books in this exploding genre. But at some point, I would love for them to give Umberto Eco or A.S. Byatt a try. I hope 'A Discovery of Witches' will serve as a kind of stepping-stone.
Deborah Harkness
#96. We have an obligation to ourselves to foster the environment that allows for our self-actualization. Rather than my gifts serving me, I must serve them. I want to be a steward of the best aspects of my character and assist them in their fulfillment through proper discipline and habits.
Chris Matakas
#99. There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is Curiosity.
There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others; that is Vanity.
There are those who seek knowledge in order to serve; that is Love.
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#100. The future of healthcare security should include flexibility from the federal government to allow us to serve the state's most vulnerable citizens.
Thomas Vilsack
