Quotes on Service & Love of Neighbour

Christian quotes on Service & Love of Neighbour — with author, dates and source, from two millennia of Christian thought.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Mother Teresa

Prayer does not equip us for greater works – prayer is the greater work.

Oswald Chambers

In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.

Henri Nouwen

There are two ways to do good: to give and to forgive.

Augustine of Hippo

The world consists of nothing but opportunities for love.

Søren Kierkegaard

We cannot do great things on this earth, only small things with great love.

Mother Teresa

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

Frederick Buechner

May I be the thinking heart of this barrack. I would like to be it again. I would like to be the thinking heart of an entire concentration camp.

Etty Hillesum

I am just a small cable - God is the current.

Mother Teresa

I would rather you make mistakes and be kind than work miracles and be unkind.

Mother Teresa

I never worry about crowds, only about one person. If I looked at the crowds, I would never begin.

Mother Teresa

Trying to do the Lord’s work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.

Corrie ten Boom

We may easily be too big for God to use, but never too small.

D.L. Moody

I’m a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.

Mother Teresa

The good you do today, will often be forgotten by tomorrow. Do good anyway.

Mother Teresa

What is an evangelist? It is one beggar telling another beggar where to find bread.

Adrian Rogers

God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.

Martin Luther

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

D. Elton Trueblood

There are no ordinary people; every neighbor carries eternal significance.

C.S. Lewis

Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.

Martin Luther King Jr.

There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.

Helen Keller

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.

William Shakespeare

It is the Holy Spirit's job to convict, God's job to judge and my job to love.

Billy Graham

A suffering person does not need a lecture—he needs a listener.

Billy Graham

Tugas pertama mencintai adalah mendengar.

Paul Tillich

Trying to know God and serve Him before we come to love Him is exhausting.

Beth Moore

We do not work for the redemption of the world, but because God has redeemed the world. That is a huge difference.

Oswald Chambers

To make a sad, despairing person cheerful is more than conquering a kingdom.

Martin Luther

There is scarcely a more blissful feeling than to sense that one can be something for other people.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Where suffering and love meet under the open heaven, there is diakonia.

Friedrich von Bodelschwingh

I consider myself a joyful handyman of God and I take hold wherever God lays a need before my feet.

Friedrich von Bodelschwingh

Is someone raging against you? Let him rage, you pray; let him hate, you be merciful! Only the fever in his soul hates you: once healed, he will thank you for it.

Augustine of Hippo

The language of love is the only language that all people understand.

Joseph Freinademetz

As a Christian you don't need to love the whole world. You only need to love the person standing right in front of you. That's enough!

Hans Peter Royer

The concern for my daily bread is a material question. The concern for my brother's bread is a spiritual question.

Nikolai Berdyaev

Diakonia means: the heart in heaven, the hands with the neighbor, the feet in the dust.

Hanna Hümmer

Be like a fountain basin that first gathers the water within itself and then, overflowing, passes it on.

Bernard of Clairvaux

You cannot wipe away someone's tears without getting your hands wet.

Arno Backhaus

Only the one who has first washed a fellow human's feet has the right to give them a piece of his mind.

Detlev Fleischhammel

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

C.S. Lewis

People quoted here

Mother Teresa, Oswald Chambers, Henri Nouwen, Augustine of Hippo, Søren Kierkegaard, Frederick Buechner, Etty Hillesum, Corrie ten Boom, D.L. Moody, Adrian Rogers, Martin Luther, D. Elton Trueblood

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