Service

"Each day we have the opportunity to give help and service—doing the right thing at the right time, without delay. Think of the many people who have a difficult time obtaining a job or who are ill, who feel lonely, who even think that they have lost everything. What can you do to help? Imagine that a neighbor, caught out in the rain with his car broken down, calls you for assistance. What is the right thing to do for him? When is the right time to do it?" (Jose L. Alonso of the Seventy, October 2011 General Conference, "Doing the Right thing at the Right Time, Without Delay ")


"Let us have ready hands, clean hands, and willing hands, that we may participate in providing what our Heavenly Father would have others receive from Him." (President Thomas S. Monson, May 2012 Ensign [Conference Issue] pg. 67, "Willing and Worthy to Serve)


"At times the wisdom of God appears as being foolish or just too difficult, but one of the greatest and most valuable lessons we can learn in mortality is that when God speaks, and a man obeys, that man will always be right...I slept and dreamt, That life was joy, I awoke and saw, That life was duty, I acted and behold, Duty was joy." (President Thomas S. Monson, May 2012 Ensign [Conference Issue] pg. 67, "Willing and Worthy to Serve")

"Let us do whatever is required to qualify for the Holy Ghost as our companion, and then let us go forward fearlessly so that we will be given the powers to do whatever the Lord calls us to do. That growth in power to serve may come slowly, it may come in small steps that are difficult for you to see, but it will come." (President Henry B. Eyring, October 2010 General Priesthood Conference, "Serve with the Spirit")

"Activity - the opportunity to serve and bear testimony - is like medicine. It will heal the spiritually sick. It will strengthen the spiritually weak. It is most necessary ingredient in the redemption of the lost sheep. Yet there is a tendency, almost a programmed tendency, to give opportunities for growth to those who are already over-surfeited with activity. This kind of pattern, evident in our stakes and wards, may keep the lost sheep out." (President Boyd K Packer, February 2011 Liahona, "Strengthening the Less Active")

"We may be relatively small in number, but as members of this Church we can reach across these widening gaps. We know the power of Christ-centered service that brings together God's children regardless of their spiritual or their economic status." (Elder M. Russell Ballard, April 2012 General Conference, "That the Lost May Be Found")

"Day-to-day acts of service, whether for good or evil, may not seem important, but they are building cords of love that become so strong they can seldom be broken. Ours is to place our areas of love in proper perspective. Meaningful love always works for our eternal progress and not against it."
(Marvin J. Ashton, "We Serve That Which We Love", Ensign, May 1981, 22)

“Whether we are young or old, what we do today determines the service we will be able to render and enjoy tomorrow. As the poet reminds us, ‘Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: It might have been!’ Let us not live our lives in regret of what we did or did not do!” (Elder Robert D. Hales, April 2012 General Conference, "Coming to Ourselves: The Sacrament, the Temple, and Sacrifice in Service")

“When our beloved prophet, President Thomas S. Monson, was asked on his birthday this past August what would be the ideal gift that members worldwide could give him, he said without a moment’s hesitation, ‘Find someone who is having a hard time,…and do something for them.’” (Elder Quentin L. Cook, October 2008 General Conference, "Hope Ya Know, We Had a Hard Time")

“It is while serving others that the Lord increases and builds our capacities. On so many occasions, as I have felt inadequate in the calling before me, I have felt the Lord’s generosity in lifting and strengthening me. It is that knowledge that sustains me now as I contemplate this new and humbling opportunity.” (Elder Neil L. Andersen, http://gapages.com/andernl1.htm)