What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
– Augustine –
Serving
Happy are those Christians – JC Ryle
Happy are those Christians who have learned of Jesus to live for others more than for themselves, and who understand that is is “more blessed to give than to receive.” (Acts 20:35)
– JC Ryle –
from Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Luke, 1858
Love is the doorway – Jack Hyles
Love is the doorway through which the human soul passes from selfishness to service.
– Jack Hyles –
Loyalty to Jesus – Oswald Chambers
Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ. The greatest competitor of true devotion to Jesus is the service we do for Him.
– Oswald Chambers –
Availability not ability – Brother Andrew
God does not choose people because of their ability, but because of their availability.
– Brother Andrew –
Equipping the saints – Chuck Colson
The church’s job is to equip the saints for works of service in the world.
– Chuck Colson –
Service of Christ is to be Delightful – Dwight L. Moody
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 –
Comfort not Comfortable – John Henry Jowett
God does not comfort us to make us comfortable but to make us comforters.
– John Henry Jowett –
1864-1923
Why I am no longer anxious about anything – Hudson Taylor
I am no longer anxious about anything, as I realize the Lord is able to carry out His will, and His will is mine. It makes no matter where He places me, or how that is rather for Him to consider than for me; for in the easiest positions He must give me His grace, and in the most difficult, His grace is sufficient.
– Hudson Taylor –