Billy Graham Quotes

The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.

The end of all education should surely be service to others

You’ve got to help people that are downtrodden and poor, and I just think that that’s part of our culture. You’ve got to help people that can’t help themselves.

We are only fully alive when we're helping others

We cannot close ourselves off to information and ignore the fact that millions of people are out there suffering. I honestly want to help. I don't believe I feel differently from other people. I think we all want justice and equality, a chance for a life with meaning. All of us would like to believe that if we were in a bad situation someone would help us.

If we see someone who needs help, do we stop? There is so much suffering and poverty, and a great need for good Samaritans.

I saw the suffering and I let myself feel it… I saw the injustice and was compelled to do something about it. I changed from being a nun who only prayed for the suffering world to a woman with my sleeves rolled up, living my prayer.

What I always wanted to do when I was a kid was to speak out and help people which I continue to do afterwards.

When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that.

In the order I was in, each brother takes five vows, one of which is teaching the poor gratuitously. As a young person I was seized by this idea of social justice and I wanted very much to follow my vow of teaching the poor gratuitously.

I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.

One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve.

I have no responsibilities but to make people's lives better.

Speaking to numerous teachers and nurses, I am consistently struck by the sense of mission they have about their work.

I've personally demanded that tyrants let their people go. I've tried to feed the hungry, clothe the poor, protect the elderly and infirm, and defend the needy from the aggressively greedy. I've led a blessed life. What a kick for a kid from the projects.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

If I didn't like poor people, why would I come and tell them how to make their lives better?

Together with the Works of Mercy, feeding, clothing and sheltering our brothers, we must indoctrinate.

I've worked with a lot of gay and lesbian organizations. I sit on the board of the Empire State Pride Agenda. I've also done a lot of work for Broadway Care/Equity Fights AIDS. I think it's important because, when we can be of service to others, it only enhances our lives. I've been helped a lot in my life.

We didn't grow up overly religious, but there was an understanding that you had a duty as a citizen to help your fellow man.

Although there are people saying I'm putting on a show, I'm hoping more will emulate my 'performance.' If more people did, more needy people would get help.

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

We're not all called to be Dorothy Day.

Though we cannot relieve all the distressed, we should relieve as many as we can.

We are not here in this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with initiative, or to serve the ways and modes of profitable progress. No, we are here to provide for all those who are weaker and hungrier, more battered and crippled than ourselves. That is our only certain good and great purpose on earth