#service

After each customer interaction, notice if you gave them a “happy to see you” kind of experience. ↗

— Marilyn Suttle

#customer-service #business

When faith replaces doubt, when selfless service eliminates selfish striving, the power of God brings to pass His purposes. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#god #purpose #selfless-service #faith

A person's faith goes at its own pace. The trouble with church is the service. A service is conducted for a mass audience. Just when I start to like the hymn, everyone plops down to pray. Just when I start to hear the prayer, everyone pops up to sing. And what does the stupid sermon have to do with God? Who knows what God thinks of current events? Who cares? ↗

— John Irving

#church #mass #religion #service #faith

Whenever, wherever, however You want me, I'll go. And I'll begin this very minute. Lord, as I stand up from this place, and as I take my first step forward, will You consider this is a step toward complete obedience to You? I'll call it the step of yes. ↗

— Brother Andrew

#obedience-christianity #service #faith

The world might stop in ten minutes; meanwhile, we are to go on doing our duty. The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though our world might last a hundred years. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#faith #faithfulness #service #trust #faith

And yet many of us do it without families," Nynaeve said. "Without love, without passion beyond our own particular interests. So even while we try to guide the world, we separate ourselves from it.We risk arrogance, Egwene. We always assume we know best, but risk making ourselves unable to fathom the people we claim to serve. ↗

— Robert Jordan

#fantasy-fiction #robert-jordan #service #wheel-of-time #family

We talk about social service, service to the people, service to humanity, service to others who are far away, helping to bring peace to the world - but often we forget that it is the very people around us that we must live for first of all. If you cannot serve your wife or husband or child or parent - how are you going to serve society? If you cannot make your own child happy, how do you expect to be able to make anyone else happy? If all our friends in the peace movement or of service communities of any kind do not love and help each other, whom can we love and help? ↗

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#family #happyness #peace #service #family

Summer is a period of luxurious growth. To be in harmony with the atmosphere of summer, awaken early in the morning and reach to the sun for nourishment to flourish as the gardens do. Work, play, travel, be joyful, and grow into selfless service. The bounty of the outside world enters and enlivens us. ↗

— Paul Pitchford

#harmony #joy #play #service #summer

I have had a career in public service. ↗

— Scott McClellan

#had #i #public #public service #service

So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#love #service #friendship