Every human activity can be put at the service of the divine and of love. We should all exercise our gift to build community.
– Jean Vanier
Related Quotes:
- Community service has become a patch for morality. You can devote your life to community service and be a total schmuck. – Timothy J Keller
- You are born for service, service is love, service is joy, service brings endless peace and happiness. – Debasish Mridha
- We work for peace every time we exercise authority with wisdom and authentic love. – Jean Vanier
- A Christian community should do as Jesus did: propose and not impose. Its attraction must lie in the radiance cast by the love of brothers. – Jean Vanier
- Service is joy, Service is the kindnessService is love, Service is the happiness – Debasish Mridha
- To forgive is a gift of God that permits us to let go of our past hurts. – Jean Vanier
- You must find your own gift, the activity you are fond of and the activity you were created for – Sunday Adelaja
- The word love has been so abused by publicity and advertisements that we no longer know really what it means. – Jean Vanier
- When we love and respect people, revealing to them their value, they can begin to come out from behind the walls that protect them. – Jean Vanier
- We are not called by God to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things with extraordinary love. – Jean Vanier
- The friend of time doesn’t spend all day saying: ‘I haven’t got time.’ He doesn’t fight with time. He accepts it and cherishes it. – Jean Vanier
- People cannot accept their own evil if they do not at the same time feel loved, respected and trusted. – Jean Vanier
- Envy comes from people’s ignorance of, or lack of belief, in their own gifts. – Jean Vanier
- An ethics of desire is good news for those of us who have become allergic to an ethics of law. – Jean Vanier
- Rest nurtures creativity, which nurtures activity. Activity nurtures rest, which sustains creativity. Each draws from and contributes to the other. – Kim John Payne
- Activity never equaled productivity. Inspect every activity to ensure you are producing right. – Bidemi MarkMordi
- The most potent recreational activity is when we sit back and exercise our minds with great and exciting books. – Michael Bassey Johnson
- Oh build your ship of death, oh build it in time and build it lovingly, and put it between the hands of your soul. – DH Lawrence
- Divine mission.Divine strength.Divine accomplishment. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building. – Philip Gourevitch
- Each soul has special gift. Find your gift for the specific service. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- I would have been trying to pitch a concept about my community to someone that most likely was not a part of that community. – Lamar Tyler
- There is no commerce without community. And there is no community without commerce – Michele Jennae
- The betterment of a community directly depends on the betterment of lives in that Community. – Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
- When you can prove your love for God by your service and attitude to others, your service has started – Sunday Adelaja
- Today I will exercise to build the power of my love. – Debasish Mridha
- All states of consciousness, no matter how mystical, ecstatic or divine, are gloriously born through the protoplasmic activity of the brain. – Abhijit Naskar
- No amount of service we do can impress God, only our service to ordinary people can – Sunday Adelaja
- Service to God is largely unacceptable without service to men – Sunday Adelaja
- The service to God is our service to humanity – Sunday Adelaja
- People-based service is God-based service – Sunday Adelaja
- Entrepreneurship is the use of self-interest in the service of others. Politics is the use of others in the service of self-interest. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- he way up is through service,Sacrificial service – it is better to serve than to be served – Ikechukwu Joseph
- True greatness, true leadership, is achieved not by reducing men to one’s service but in giving oneself in selfless service to them. – J Oswald Sanders
- The person of creatures is living, the purpose of living is service, a service that implants legacy. – Samuel Gyekye Mensah
- The service of humanity, is the service of God. – Abhijit Naskar
- I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. – Rabindranath Tagore
- Service is joy, service is happiness. – Debasish Mridha
- Customer service is all about FEELINGS! I am of the opinion that customer service is actually FEELINGS MANAGEMENT. – J N HALM
- Service for one another, service for mankind, – Lailah Gifty Akita