68 Quotes About Volunteering

A willing spirit, diligently perform the sacred duty.

He didn’t imagine hockey was a very likely career for any of them—they weren’t even playing on skates—but if they could just believe in something... In themselves, a little bit, in the world giving them a chance, in other people being worth getting to know…If he could, somehow, offer them that much. Or even if all he did was make their week better. Hell, he’d take making their day a little less worse. It’d make him happy too and joy wasn’t something to be squandered.

Another thing that was so amazing to me was how unbelievably upbeat most of them were. To hear some of them rejoicing over getting a better pair of shoes or a modest tent to find shelter in was truly humbling. You would have thought they had just won the lottery. Shame on me for whining about things I don't have. One man who liked to talk about Christ told me how the night before he had lulled himself to sleep by lying inside his tent and counting his blessings. How many of us could do that?

The reality is that doing good unto others actually does more good for you.

When you tend to another's dying embers, you find both warmth and an increase in the glow of your own fire.

I find that the critics of voluntary service are all too often those who are prepared to accept such services when they require them but deride them with cynicism and scepticism when they see others helping and being helped.

You don't have to be a billionaire to believe you can make a difference. Give your resources to a charity and volunteer in your community.

I now rejoice in my service to others and make best use of my skills and abilities to help others. I now open to light, receive the light, and share the light, for one and all.

Spirit flow through me, as I serve mankind and connect with the eternal oneness of us all.