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Want the best?—give your best.
No one can help everybody, but everybody can help someone.
God chose the poor and the few to do his work because the rich and the many, being preoccupied, refused him.
Grant that the heat in my heart will melt the lead in my feet.
God tends to use the one nearest him.
It is so much easier to tell a person what to do with his problem that to stand with him in pain.
It is better to do one thing for God than to promise to do forty things you can’t do.
Service can never become slavery to one who loves.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
Many of the debts we owe are payable to man.
Forget yourself for others, and others will not forget you.
God measures our service, not by our ability, but by our willingness.
God has called us to play the game, not to keep the score.
Don’t despise little things; a lantern can do what the sun can never do—shine at night.
The Christian’s place is on the front line, not on the sideline.
Mend your nets with prayer, cast them in faith, and draw them in love.
Greatness lies not in trying to be somebody but in trying to help somebody.
The best way to find good in thyself is to begin to look for good in others.
Whatever you do, do it well and then some. That “then some” is what counts.
Do your best—angels can do no more.
To be successful all you need is to follow the advice you give to others.
When you dig another out of his troubles, you find a place to bury your own.
We should employ our passions in the service of life, not spend life in the service of our passions.
We are pardoned from sin, but we are not excused from service.
God didn’t call you into the vineyard to eat grapes but to get busy and hoe.
Assist in all the things that need assistance, and resist all things that need resistance.
You will never become dizzy doing good turns.
Jesus went about doing good; many just go about.
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
A dewdrop does God’s will as much as a thunderstorm.
This is the true greatness: to serve unnoticed and work unseen.
Greatness is not measured by how many servants you have but by how many people you serve.
You cannot change human nature, but perhaps you can improve it.
It’s hard to keep a chip on the shoulder if you take a bow from time to time.
Pray until the tears come; work till the sweat comes; give till it hurts.
Count your life by deeds—not years.
The best exercise for the heart is to bend down several times during the day to help someone.
The gospel does not shrink our lives—it expands them.
A heart enlarged by sympathy never killed anyone.
God does not comfort his people to make them comfortable but to make them comforters.
The more you do what you like, the less you like what you do.
Some folks with a sympathetic disposition sure waste a lot of it on themselves.
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little.
What you do for Christ is the test of your service—what we suffer for Christ is our test of love.
We’ve no time for muddling when we must be ministering.
Facing duty in service is easier than running away.
We make a living by getting, but we make lives by giving.
A man’s reward is what he becomes—not what he gets.
Do your best—the forest would be very quiet if no birds sang except the best singers.
True wealth is the satisfaction of talent used in Christian service.
When you help a person up the hill, you find yourself closer to the top.
Ability is wonderful, but God is more interested in your availability.
It’s better to attempt to do something and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
The crowns we wear in heaven must all be won on earth.
We are saved to serve; but we cannot serve to be saved.
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it themselves.
Service is love dressed in work clothes.
Circumstances don’t make a man—they serve him.
A person may rate himself good, if he rates himself by the things others have not done.
He who cares will share.
It is better to fill a little place right than a big place wrong.
The highest bidder for the crown of glory is the lowest wearer of the cross of self-denial.
Some people spend time counting the cost when they should consider the cost for not following him.
Satan selects his helpers from the idle; Christ from those who are busy.
You have not really lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
The truly busy person is so busy that he has no time to think how busy he really is.
The only time we should look down on our neighbor is when we are bending over to help him.
Service is the rent we pay in life for the space we occupy.
A man can do more than he thinks he can, but he usually does less than he thinks he does.
True fame is founded in labors for the happiness of mankind.
It’s not a shame having just one talent—the shame is not using it.
Christians should be channels, not chalices.
Every toiler who is true to his task is honorable in God’s sight.
The Lord is less concerned about those who make mistakes than he is about those who don’t try.
Some people cast a stale crust on the waters and expect chocolate cake in return.
It’s not what you gain but what you give that measures the worth of the life you live.
The best way to forget your problems is to help someone else to solve his.
The Lord is more interested in people than in things.
It is far better that we should err in action than completely refuse to perform.
Independence is not always a virtue.
The greatest pleasure in life is to do a good turn and have it discovered by accident.
It is not the hours you put in but what you put in the hours.
We are on earth to love, to live, and to serve, not to grab, growl, and get.
Our aim should be to serve—not to be successful.
Life itself can’t give you joy unless you really will it.
Life just gives you time and space—it’s up to you to fill it.
Nothing worth having is secured by sin.
Nothing worth keeping is lost in serving God.
It isn’t the age—it’s the mileage that counts.
When you don’t know what to do, do the most helpful things.
Some people spell service, “serve us.”
God’s requirements are met by God’s enablings.
The believer’s talents are not to be laid up for self—they are to be laid out for service.
A Christian can do great things for God by doing small things for others.
Your life is God’s gift to you; what you do with it is your gift to God.
Our likeness of Christ is measured by our sensitivity to the sufferings of others.
The greatest joy man can experience is to be needed by just one person.
A leader does not begin to serve until be puts serving into his leadership.
Time in Christ’s service requires time out for renewal.
Serving Christ under law is a duty; under love it’s a delight.
People are seldom too busy to stop and tell you how busy they are.
Not where we serve but whether we serve is most important.
We have heard of many people who did little for God, but did you ever hear of anyone doing too much for God?
God doesn’t measure success in units of silver, but in units of service.
Nobody really lives till he finds something big enough to give himself to.
Be of use to people and you will learn to love them.
The Lord uses those who are little in their own eyes; for the smaller we are the more room there is for God to work.
The glory of life is love—not to be loved; to give—not to get; to serve—not to be served.
A determined man with a rusty wrench can do much more than a loafer with all the tools in the machine shop.
Christian service is not optional—it’s a command.
He lives not who lives not in earnest.
Ten ways to get rid of the blues: Go out and do something for someone else—then repeat nine times.
God isn’t interested in how many talents we have—he’s interested in how we are using the talent we have.
Rewards are usually anticlimactic—the fun is in doing.
People will be happy in about the same degree that they are helpful.
I would rather be a faithful watchdog than an indifferent shepherd.
A useful life can’t be entirely peaceful and carefree.
Very few people are fast enough to keep up with all their good intentions.
Many Christians suffer from loneliness because they are sitting instead of serving.
The only way to keep the good will and high esteem of the people you work with is to deserve it.
A humble talent that is used is worth more than one of a genius that is idle.
A servant works—a king speaks.
We tire of those pleasures which we receive but never of those we give.
Veron McLellan and Croft M. Pentz, The Complete Book of Practical Proverbs, Wacky Wit, and Zingers (Tyndale House Publishers, 1996).
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