If you know that God loves you, you should never question a directive from Him. It will always be right and best. When He gives you a directive, you are not just to observe it, discuss it, or debate it. You are to obey it.
– Henry Blackaby
Obedience | Service
God’s work done in God’s way will never lack God’s supplies.
– Hudson Taylor
Evangelism | Service
If God called us to a task, He will then qualify us for the job.
– Jack Hyles
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The measure of a men’s greatness is not the number of servants he has, but the number of people he serves.
– John Hagee
Service | Men
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
– Peter Marshall
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Man’s greatest honor and privilege is to do the will of God. This was what the Lord Jesus taught His disciples. He once said that only those who did His Father’s will would enter the kingdom of Heaven (Matt. 7:21). He also said that His true brothers and sisters were those who did the will of God (Matt. 12:50).
– Zac Poonen
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Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works.
– Martin Luther
Faith | Service
Whenever God calls us to a task, He will equip us and enable us to complete that task.
– Michael Youssef
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Those that God used in the past were just ordinary people with an extraordinary Master. They were not all champions of great faith, but little people who saw their own need, and put their small faith in a great God.
– Winkie Pratney
Faith | Service
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
– Henry Ward Beecher
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Have you been holding back from a risky, costly course to which you know in your heart God has called you? Hold back no longer. Your God is faithful to you, and adequate for you. You will never need more than He can supply, and what He supplies, both materially and spiritually, will always be enough for the present.
– J.I. Packer
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Expect great things from God. Attempt great things for God.
– William Carey
Service | Faith
The best way to do ourselves good is to be doing good to others; the best way to gather is to scatter.
– Thomas Brooks
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Prayer is of transcendent importance. Prayer is the mightiest agent to advance God’s work. Praying hearts and hands only can do God’s work. Prayer succeeds when all else fails.
– E.M. Bounds
Prayer | Service
Do all the good you can by all the means you can in all the places you can at all the times you can to all the people you can as long as ever you can.
– John Wesley
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One of the principal rules of religion is, to lose no occasion of serving God. And, since he is invisible to our eyes, we are to serve him in our neighbor; which he receives as if done to himself in person, standing visibly before us.
– John Wesley
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I am not tired of my work, neither am I tired of the world; yet, when Christ calls me home, I shall go with gladness.
– Adoniram Judson
Service | Death
No sacrifice should be too great for Him who gave Himself for us.
– Harry Ironside
Service | Sacrifice
The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service.
– Billy Graham
Worship | Service
What is God’s remedy for dejection at apparent failure in our labors? This – the assurance that God’s purpose cannot fail, that God’s plans cannot miscarry, that God’s will must be done. Our labors are not intended to bring about that which God has not decreed.
– A. W. Pink
Service | Failure
As our Father makes many a flower to bloom unseen in the lonely desert, [let us] do all that we can do, as under God’s eye, though no other eye ever take note of it.
– Hudson Taylor
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Faith and works are bound up in the same bundle. He that obeys God trusts God; and he that trusts God obeys God. He that is without faith is without works; and he that is without works is without faith.
– Charles Spurgeon
Faith | Service
Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.
– Rick Warren
Faithful | Service
Length of life should be measured not by the number of years but by the number of right actions.
– Desiderius Erasmus
Kindness | Service
Though I am always in a haste, I am never in a hurry, because I never undertake more work than I can go through with perfect calmness of spirit.
– John Wesley
Service | Work
My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
– Helen Keller
Faithful | Service | Work
Our toil is sweet with thankfulness, Our burden is our boon; The curse of earth’s gray morning is, The blessing of its noon.
– John Greenleaf Whittier
Service | Temptation | Thankfulness
Each of us may be sure that if God sends us on stony paths He will provide us with strong shoes, and He will not send us out on any journey for which He does not equip us well.
– Alexander MacLaren
Grace | Service
Every man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is knowledge without fear of God? Indeed a humble rustic who serves God is better than a proud intellectual who neglects his soul to study the course of the stars.
– Thomas a Kempis
Service | Knowledge
God has chosen us to help one another.
– Smith Wigglesworth
Service | Charity | Helping
Carnal Christians crave works; yet amid many labors they are unable to maintain calm in their spirit. They cannot fulfill God’s orders quietly as can the spiritual believers… their hearts are governed by outward matters. Being “distracted with much serving” (Luke 10:40) is the characteristic of the work of any soulish believer. They have not yet entered the rest of God.
– Watchman Nee
Carnality | Service | Rest
Love is the doorway through which the human soul passes from selfishness to service.
– Jack Hyles
Love | Selfishness | Service
I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help Him. I ended up by asking Him to do His work through me.
– Hudson Taylor
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God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners.
– William Wilberforce
Compassion | Service
To be used of God. Is there anything more encouraging, more fulfilling? Perhaps not, but there is something more basic: to meet with God. To linger in His presence, to shut out the noise of the city and, in quietness, give Him the praise He deserves. Before we engage ourselves in His work, let’s meet Him in His Word… in prayer… in worship.
– Chuck Swindoll
Service | Prayer | Worship
When men do anything for God, the very least thing, they never know where it will end, nor what amount of work it will do for Him. Love’s secret, therefore, is to be always doing things for God, and not to mind because they are such very little ones.
– Frederick W. Faber
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If you want to live in this world, doing the duty of life, knowing the blessings of it, doing your work heartily, and yet not absorbed by it, remember that the one power whereby you can so act is, that all shall be consecrated to Christ, and done for His sake.
– Alexander MacLaren
Service | Power | Consecration
Each of us may be sure that if God sends us on stony paths He will provide us with strong shoes, and He will not send us out on any journey for which He does not equip us well.
– Alexander MacLaren
Grace | Service
I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And that which I can do, by the grace of God, I will do.
– Dwight L. Moody
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There is no work better than to please God; to pour water, to wash dishes, to be a cobbler, or an apostle, all are one; to wash dishes and to preach are all one, as touching the deed, to please God.
– William Tyndale
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When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Service | Humility
We have become so engrossed in the work of the Lord that we have forgotten the Lord of the work.
– A. W. Tozer
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We can serve God only with a clear conscience. An opaque one shall surely cause us to shrink back intuitively from God.
– Watchman Nee
Conscience | Service
Are we not all immortal till our work is done?
– Robert Murray McCheyne
Life | Service
Have you ever realized that you can give things to God that are of value to Him? Or are you just sitting around daydreaming about the greatness of His redemption, while neglecting all the things you could be doing for Him? I’m not referring to works which could be regarded as divine and miraculous, but ordinary, simple human things – things which would be evidence to God that you are totally surrendered to Him.
– Oswald Chambers
Redemption | Service | Surrender
The real test of a saint is not one’s willingness to preach the gospel, but one’s willingness to do something like washing the disciples’ feet – that is, being willing to do those things that seem unimportant in human estimation but count as everything to God.
– Oswald Chambers
Service | The Gospel
God does not love men that are inconstant, nor good works that are intermitted. Nothing is pleasing to him, but what has a resemblance of his own immutability.
– John Wesley
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The flesh everything that you do apart from Him “profiteth nothing” (John 6:63), and there is always the awful possibility, if you do not discover this principle, that you may spend a lifetime in the service of Jesus Christ doing nothing!
– Major Ian Thomas
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It is not the nature of what you are doing that determines its spirituality, but the origin of what you are doing.
– Major Ian Thomas
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What matters is not the duration of your life, but the donation of it.
– Rick Warren
Life | Service
There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.
– John Calvin
Service | Work
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
Service | Work | Women
Let us, therefore, not be weary of well-doing; for we shall reap an eternal harvest of comfort, if we faint not.
– George Whitefield
Service | Comfort | Perseverance
If you want to live in this world, doing the duty of life, knowing the blessings of it, doing your work heartily, and yet not absorbed by it, remember that the one power whereby you can so act is, that all shall be consecrated to Christ, and done for His sake.
– Alexander MacLaren
Service | Power | Consecration
It is more important that God be glorified then that I accomplish certain things in the line of service.
– Harry Ironside
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God is so great, that he communicates greatness to the least thing that is done for his service.
– John Wesley
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Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.
– Charles Kingsley
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A man’s labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilization.
– William Booth
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You cannot do God’s work without God’s power.
– John R. Rice
Service | Power
Here lies the tremendous mystery – that God should be all-powerful, yet refuse to coerce. He summons us to cooperation. We are honoured in being given the opportunity to participate in his good deeds. Remember how He asked for help in performing his miracles : Fill the waterpots, stretch out your hand, distribute the loaves.
– Elisabeth Elliot
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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Faithful | Service | Responsibility
Good works are indispensable to salvation – not as its ground or means, however, but as its consequence and evidence.
– John Stott
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Faith and works should travel side by side, step answering to step, like the legs of men walking. First faith, and then works; and then faith again, and then works again–until they can scarcely distinguish which is the one and which is the other.
– William Booth
Faith | Service
He came to deliver us from our sinful dispositions, and create in us pure hearts, and when we have Him with us it will not be hard for us. Then the service of Christ will be delightful.
– Dwight L. Moody
Sin | Purity | Service
Do you find a single occasion in which Christ ever acted independently of God? If you walk in the same path it will be sweet to you to feel your entire dependency, finding in all difficulties the everlasting arms underneath.
– G.V. Wigram
Service | Godliness
We need to realize that in all things our first duty and responsibility is to God Himself.
– Harry Ironside
Service | Responsibility
God has work to do in this world; and to desert it because of its difficulties and entanglements, is to cast off His authority. It is not enough that we be just, that we be righteous, and walk with God in holiness; but we must also serve our generation, as David did before he fell asleep. God has a work to do; and not to help Him is to oppose Him.
– John Owen
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Jesus organized the church, which is His vineyard. He commands all to go into the vineyard and work. All who are united to Christ by faith, and are thus members of His mystical body, should be members of His visible church.
– James H. Aughey
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He that well and rightly considereth his own works will find little cause to judge hardly of another.
– Thomas a Kempis
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We’re here to be worshippers first and workers only second. We take a convert and immediately make a worker out of him. God never meant it to be so. God meant that a convert should learn to be a worshiper, and after that he can learn to be a worker…The work done by a worshiper will have eternity in it.
– A. W. Tozer
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To every toiling, heavy-laden sinner, Jesus says, Come to me and rest. But there are many toiling, heavy-laden believers, too. For them this same invitation is meant. Note well the words of Jesus, if you are heavy-laden with your service, and do not mistake it. It is not, Go, labor on, as perhaps you imagine. On the contrary, it is stop, turn back, Come to me and rest. Never, never did Christ send a heavy laden one to work; never, never did He send a hungry one, a weary one, a sick or sorrowing one, away on any service. For such the Bible only says, Come, come, come.
– Hudson Taylor
Prayer | Service | Salvation
However tiring our work may be, how could it ever be tiresome? How could it be anything less than a joy to serve the One who has given us all things for life, and enrichment, and enjoyment? Jesus, who suffered so much to secure our salvation.
– Joni Eareckson Tada
Salvation | Jesus | Service
And how often pursuit after spiritual growth originates in the natural self perhaps only because we cannot bear the thought of falling behind or because we seek some personal gain. Bluntly state, the doing of good is not sin but the manner, methods, or motive in such good-doing may be surfeited with our self.
– Watchman Nee
Service | Growth
The Lord has given us a table at which to feast, not an altar on which a victim is to be offered; He has not consecrated priests to make sacrifice, but servants to distribute the sacred feast.
– John Calvin
Blessings | Service
If what they are saying about you is true, mend your ways. If it isn’t true, forget it, and go on and serve the Lord.
– Harry Ironside
Humility | Service
The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.
– Billy Graham
Prayer | Service | Healing
Too many people today ask God ‘where’ instead of ‘what.’
– Jack Hyles
Service
A non-serving Christian is a contradiction in terms.
– Rick Warren
Christians | Service
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
– Harry Emerson Fosdick
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God does not have to come and tell me what I must do for Him, He brings me into a relationship with Himself where I hear His call and understand what He wants me to do, and I do it out of sheer love to Him. When people say they have had a call to foreign service, or to any particular sphere of work, they mean that their relationship to God has enabled them to realize what they can do for God.
– Oswald Chambers
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I am not tired of my work, neither am I tired of the world; yet, when Christ calls me home, I shall go with gladness.
– Adoniram Judson
Service | Death
Labor is life: from the inmost heart of the worker rises his God-given force, the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God!
– Thomas Carlyle
Service | The Heart
The Protestant work ethic finds its application in many contexts in the twenty-first century. Perhaps the most obvious is the phenomenon of ‘faith based activism’: religious groups using their faith both as a platform and a guiding principle for social engagement and voluntary work.
– Alister McGrath
Work | Service
All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.
– John Calvin
Blessings | Service
We may sometimes think we’re a forgotten commodity, but God remembers every one of us who serve Him.
– Shelton Smith
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A Christian ought to recognize the limits of his gift and to labor within those bounds.
– Watchman Nee
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When you cease from labor, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are laboring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.
– David Brainerd
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The Scriptures teach that the happiness or blessedness of believers in a future life will be greater or less in proportion to the service of Christ in this life. Those who love little, do little; and those who do little, enjoy less.
– Charles Hodge
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If we understand how much His work requires His great power, we shall be ashamed of our ideas and abashed by our self-reliance. We shall see that all our efforts are but “dead works.”
– Watchman Nee
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One secret act of self-denial, one sacrifice of inclination to duty, is worth all the mere good thoughts, warm feelings, passionate prayers in which idle people indulge themselves.
– John Henry Newman
Service | Self-denial | Idleness
Prayer strikes the winning blow; service is simply picking up the pieces.
– S.D. Gordon
Prayer | Service
Don’t assume you have to be extraordinary to be used by God. You don’t have to have exceptional gifts, talents, abilities, or connections. God specializes in using ordinary people whose limitations and weaknesses make them ideal showcases for His greatness and glory (1 Cor. 1:26-29).
– Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Service
Often the children of God cannot rise up to answer the Lord’s call to service simply because, though their physical condition is good, their feelings are low, cold, and reluctant. Or even when their emotions are quite high, passionate, and willing, they find themselves unable to serve the Lord because now the body reacts lazily. The disciples found themselves in precisely that situation in the Garden of Gethsemane: “the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak” (Matt. 26:41)
– Watchman Nee
Service | Laziness | Feelings
The burdens of the spirit differ from the weights on the spirit. A burden of the spirit, on the other hand, is given by God to His child for the purpose of calling him to work, to pray, or to preach. It is a burden with purpose, with reason, and for spiritual profit.
– Watchman Nee
The Holy Spirit | Service
Take heart therefore, O ye saints, and be strong; your cause is good, God himself espouseth your quarrel, who hath appointed you his own Son, General of the field, called ‘the Captain of our salvation.’
– William Gurnall
Service | Jesus
Oh, is the Lord Jesus Christ a believer’s life? Why, then, let no believer be disquieted, nor overwhelmed and dejected, for any loss or for any sorrow or suffering that he meets with for the Lord Jesus Christ’s sake. Oh, what should a man then do for Jesus Christ, who is his life!
– Thomas Brooks
Jesus | Service
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
– Helen Keller
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His daily prayer, far better understood in acts than in words, was simply doing good.
– John Greenleaf Whittier
Prayer | Service
When the fruit of your service is out of all proportion to the gifts you possess, THAT is Blessing!
– Watchman Nee
Blessings | Service | Gifts
The amount of time we spend with Jesus – meditating on His Word and His majesty, seeking His face – establishes our fruitfulness in the kingdom.
– Charles Stanley
Service | Scripture | Meditation