John Piper Quotes

If you have not been served personally by caring hands in your own life, do not be bitter, but instead, ask yourself who you can now serve.

It gives me satisfaction to help people.

Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. And compassion helps us as well.

There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

The biggest thing I've learned is that it's not about me. All of the things that I do have to be about bringing service to the world and helping people shift their perception.

I was sitting around, moping and feeling badly for myself. I went to the hospital to visit a child, and it hit me: helping people is what I'm meant to do.

You can't focus on yourself. You need to focus on what you're doing for others, and then you can start to heal.

The work of your heart, the work of taking time, to listen, to help, is also your gift to the whole of the world

Being able to step outside of yourself in order to help someone else is why we're all here, it's what we should all be doing if we can.

The Master lives within everyone. When you give food to the one who is starving, when you give water to the one who is thirsty, when you cover the one who is cold, you give your love to the Master.

Bear the burdens of others, but don't put them in your pocket too.

Make others truly happy as you strive to make yourself happy. Speak a helpful word. Give a cheering smile. Do a kind act. Serve a little. Wipe the tears of one who is in distress. Render smooth a rough place in another's path. You will feel great joy.

Even the least work done for others awakens the power within.

If you want to serve the universe, the obvious place to begin is right where you are. That's where I began. I looked at every situation I came into and wondered, 'What can I do to be of service in this situation?' Sometimes there was nothing I could do, but often there was - a helping hand, a word of cheer, a pleasant smile. Then, after I had given a lot, a most wonderful spiritual receiving began - giving me more to give.

Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.

Compassion, along with love, is the face of altruism.

The way to feel better about your own situation is to improve someone else’s circumstances.

I didn't do this for the President. When I had this opportunity, not only was it work, but it was something that I could do, as an actor, for the victims and their families. Something I could give back.

I've been lucky to have a lot of opportunities to help people.

It seemed to me that I was put on earth to take care of people. That is what I should be doing, and I never got tired of it.

America is the most giving nation on Earth. One of the best ways to feel better is by doing something for somebody else.

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.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

I was told by my grandfather who was a minister that we all were put here on earth to be of service to one another, and it is quite gratifying to know that if I am able to be of help to one that is not able to help themselves then I am fulfilling my obligation as a human being.