Serving Others Quotes
127 quotes by 89 authors
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
— James M. Barrie
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No one has ever been accused for not providing ornaments, but for those who neglect their neighbour a hell awaits with an inextinguishable fire and…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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The rich man who gives to the poor does not bestow alms but pays a debt.
— Ambrose
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It would be considered a theft on our part if we didn't give to someone in greater need than we are.
— Francis of Assisi
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If it were given to a man to see virtue's reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect, memory and will in nothing…
— John of the Cross
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He who loses an opportunity is like the man who lets a bird fly from his hand, for he will never recover it.
— John of the Cross
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We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen away, and to bring home those who have lost their way. Many who…
— Francis of Assisi
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We must show charity towards the sick, who are in greater need of help. Let us take them some small gift if they are poor,…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering, loves his suffering.
— Saint Augustine
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The true aim of our Christian life consists in the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God. As for fasts, and vigils, and prayer, and…
— Seraphim of Sarov
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If we wish to keep peace with our neighbor, we should never remind anyone of his natural defects.
— Philip Neri
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If you have a sick or lonely person at home, be there. Maybe just to hold a hand, maybe just to give a smile, that…
— Mother Teresa
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People are hungry for God. Do you see that? Quite often we look but do not see. We are all passing through this world. We…
— Mother Teresa
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Sometimes it is harder for us to smile at those who live with us, the immediate members of our families, than it is to smile…
— Mother Teresa
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Let us not love by words alone, but let us love until it hurts.
— Mother Teresa
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As far as I am concerned, the greatest suffering is to feel alone, unwanted, unloved. The greatest suffering is also having no one, forgetting what…
— Mother Teresa
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People have forgotten what the human touch is, what it is to smile, for somebody to smile at them, somebody to recognize them, somebody to…
— Mother Teresa
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I repeat that the poor, the sufferers from leprosy, the rejected, the alcoholics, whom we serve, are beautiful people. Many of them have wonderful personalities.…
— Mother Teresa
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So long as there are poor, - I am poor, - So long as there are prisons, - I am a prisoner, - So long…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I…
— John Henry Newman
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