God is the one great employer

• God is the one great employer, thinker, planner, supervisor. Henry Ward Beecher
• You work for God Incorporated. Iyanla Vanzant
• Don’t bother to give God instructions; just report for duty. Corrie Ten Boom
• When God is your employer, the benefits are out of this world.  Rebecca Barlow Jordan
• God is my boss and I’m his employee. I’m thankful for my salary called life, with benefits called blessings.
• The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and keep it. Genesis 2:15

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We are here on earth to do God’s work

• We should always look upon ourselves as God’s servants, placed in God’s world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can.  David Brainerd
• If there’s anything better than a God-given talent, it’s a God-given day job. Robert Breault
• God’s work done in God’s way will never lack God’s supply. Hudson Taylor
• The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and keep it. Genesis 2:15

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As employees of God, God has a job purpose for each of us

• I believe God made me for a purpose. Eric Liddell
• God made you on purpose, for a purpose. Bill Hybels
• God’s purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye … Rumi
• God created you with special talents for a purpose. Tricia Goyer
• My purpose alone must be God’s purpose. George Washington Carver
• Everyone has a purpose because God is a purposeful God. Iyanla Vanzant
• God and nature create nothing that does not fulfill a purpose. Aristotle
• You cannot fulfil God’s purposes for your life while focusing on your own plans. Rick Warren
• We were created for the purpose of giving God’s invisible character a glimpse of visibility. Beth Moore
• Will we fulfill God’s purpose, or will we shrink back and live a comfortable, self-centered life? Rick Warren
• God wants us to delight in living His purpose for us, which is why our passion plays a huge part! Paige Omartian
• Knowing that we are fulfilling God’s purpose is the only thing that gives rest to the restless human heart. Charles Colson
• God has a purpose in every life, and when the soul is completely yielded and acquiescent, He will certainly realize it. F.B. Meyer
• Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness. Jean Paul
• God has a purpose and plan for your life and nothing can stand in the way of it – except you. Are you ready to listen? Michael Franzese
• I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world.  David Brainerd
• God has a place and purpose for you, somewhere for you to be and something for you to do. You never will be happy elsewhere, nor can you please God anywhere but there. Vance Havner
• Your purpose is to act on the resources God gives you. If God gives you a bucket of fish, you have to distribute those fish. If you don’t, they’re going to rot, attract a bunch of flies, and start stinking up your soul. Russell Simmons
• God freely created us so that we might know, love, and serve him in this life and be happy with him forever. God’s purpose in creating us is to draw forth from us a response of love and service here on earth, so that we may attain our goal of everlasting happiness with him in heaven. Ignatius of Loyola

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God gives us specific talents…

• Talent is God given. Be humble. John Wooden
• I absolutely believe my talent is God-given. Hubert de Givenchy
• God created you with special talents for a purpose. Tricia Goyer
• God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius. Anna Pavlova
• God gives gifts to everyone, some can write, some can dance. Ronaldinho
• What can I do but bring forth the talent that God gave me? Michael Jackson
• I think God gave talent to different people in different areas. Mariano Rivera
• Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both. Carroll O’Connor
• God gives everyone the same amount of talent. It’s just up to you to dig. Yasmin Ahmad
• If there’s anything better than a God-given talent, it’s a God-given day job. Robert Breault
• Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. Leo Buscaglia
• I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. Joel Osteen
• Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it. Baron de Montesquieu
• Everything is given by God. All talent, creativity, ability, insight, and strength comes from him. In our own strength we can do nothing. Marvin J. Ashton
• God has given each of us one or more special talents….It is up to each of us to search for and build upon the gifts which God has given. Marvin J. Ashton
• God didn’t have time to make a nobody, only a somebody.I believe that each of us has God-given talents within us waiting to be brought to fruition. Mary Kay Ash
• God has given each normal person a capacity to achieve some end. True, some are endowed with more talent than others, but God has left none of us talentless. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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…and our task, assigned by God, is to develop and use those talents for the benefit of the world

• God created you with special talents for a purpose. Tricia Goyer
• A job should employ God-given talents in a way that glorifies Him. Marvin Olasky
• God has given you talents and opportunities. Seize them today — not tomorrow. Laura Story
• Such humble talents as God had given me I will endeavour to put to their greatest use. Anne Bronte
• God gave me the talent and I endeavor to give it back to Him with each new idea. Dino Kartsonakis
• Use the talents God has given you to make the world better for your having been in it. Robert Collier
• When God gives us a talent it is our responsibility to hone it for His purpose and glory. Yoshiko Sakurai
• Every person is endowed with God-given abilities, and we must cultivate every ounce of talent we have… Benjamin Carson
• Talent comes from God. If you have been given some, then value it, cultivate it, work and develop it. Denzel Washington
• Dear young people, do not bury your talents, the gifts that God has given you! Do not be afraid to dream of great things! Pope Francis
• If you ain’t using all the talents God provided you with For the betterment of Man, understand, You ain’t nothing but a waste. Talib Kweli
• A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals. Larry Bird
• When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me’. Erma Bombeck
• Whatever your talent is, don’t be embarrassed by it. For the love of God, embrace it, share it, do what you want with it. It’s amazing, so never hide behind it. Tyler Hoechlin
• God has given us our talents, not to copy the talents of others, but rather to use our brains and imagination in order to obtain the revelation of true beauty. Louis Comfort Tiffany

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Developing and using our talents is our gift back to God

• Our talents are the gift that God gives to us… What we make of our talents is our gift back to God. Leo Buscaglia
• …you can render to God and humanity no greater service than to make the most of yourself. Wallace D. Wattles
• The only service that you can render God is to give expression to what he is trying to give to the world, through you. The only service you can render God is to make the very most of yourself in order that God may live in you to the utmost of your possibilities. Wallace D. Wattles

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Our job description is to serve God

• It is only serving God that is doing immortal work. Charles Spurgeon
• I believe that the sphere of service, your career, the plan which God has mapped out for you and prepared for you, is the greatest agency in His hands to conform You to His character and to His will. Alan Redpath
• Since God is the one who calls people to their work, the worker becomes a steward who serves God. Leland Ryken
• If we give God service it must be because He gives us grace. We work for Him because He works in us. Charles Spurgeon
• God created you to do him some particular service. He has given some work to you that he has not given to another. You have your mission. You shall do good. John Henry Newman
• God has created me to do him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another. I have my mission; I never may know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. I have a part in a great work; I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good, I shall do His work; I shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth in my own place, while not intending it, if I do but keep His commandments and serve Him in my calling. John Henry Newman
• God welcomes genuine service… Philo
• Resistance to tyranny is service to God.
• All service ranks the same with God. Robert Browning
• We all have the same God, we just serve him differently. Muhammad Ali
• There is nothing small in the service of God. Saint Francis de Sales
• It’s a weak faith that only serves God in times of blessing. Ray Stedman
• Your willingness to serve God is as important as your service to God. Jim George
• Serve God with boldness, and who knows what wonders the Lord may work? Jimmy Carter
• My religion is truth, love and service to God and humanity. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
• We serve a good God who oversees the affairs of mankind. Max Lucado
• The meaning of life consists in the love and service of God. Leo Tolstoy
• Take care of your health, that it may serve you to serve God. Saint Francis de Sales
• There are no rules in the service of God, and this itself is no rule. Yehudi Menuhin
• You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. Marianne Williamson
• Remember this-you can’t serve God and Money, but you can serve God with money. Selwyn Hughes
• Each day is precious when we consider what we can do to serve God and His Kingdom. Elizabeth George
• We shall never be fit for the service of God, if we look not beyond this fleeting life. John Calvin
• Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily. Saint Francis de Sales
• In Jesus, the service of God and the service of the least of the brethren were one. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• The best service you can do is to keep your thoughts on God. Keep God in mind every minute. Neem Karoli Baba
• Anything that doesn’t lead us to that – to better know and serve God – is a waste of time. Charles de Foucauld
• He who serves God with what costs him nothing, will do very little service, you may depend on it. Susan Warner
• Don’t let any opportunity lead you away from serving God. That’s a price that’s too high to pay. George Foreman
• The visionary who is serving God ceases to live for personal ambitions, but rather for God’s ambitions. George Barna
• Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God. Rick Warren
• The Incarnation is the ultimate reason why the service of God cannot be divorced from the service of man. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• Possessions are not God’s blessing and goodness, but the opportunities of service which he entrusts to us. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• No life can surpass that of a man who quietly continues to serve God in the place where providence has placed him. Charles Spurgeon
• A humble rustic who serves God is better than a proud intellectual who neglects his soul to study the course of the stars. Thomas a Kempis
• When faith replaces doubt, when selfless service eliminates selfish striving, the power of God brings to pass His purposes. Thomas S. Monson
• I am endeavouring to see God through service of humanity; for I know that God is neither in heaven, nor down below, but in everyone. Mahatma Gandhi
• That’s what I love about serving God. In His eyes, there are no little people…because there are no big people. We are all on the same playing field Joni Eareckson Tada
• A good decision is our will to do everything we can within our power. It means to serve God with all we’ve got, be it little or much. Every person can do that. Soren Kierkegaard
• In the name of God, Monsieur, let us not be so little attached to God’s service that we yield to a useless fear which may cause us to abandon the task He has given us. Vincent de Paul
• The patriot who feels himself in the service of God, who acknowledges Him in all his ways, has the promise of Almighty direction, and will find His Word in his greatest darkness. Francis Scott Key
• What brings you closer to God is being in service to others. I think any religion or spiritual way of life will indicate that service to others will lead to a connection with a higher power. Steve-O
• The soul of one who serves God always swims in joy, always keeps holiday, is always in her palace of jubilation, ever singing with fresh ardor and fresh pleasure a new song of joy and love. John of the Cross
• One of the principal rules of religion is, to lose no occasion of serving God. And, since he is invisible to our eyes, we are to serve him in our neighbour; which he receives as if done to himself in person, standing visibly before us. John Wesley
• If we wish to make any progress in the service of God we must begin every day of our life with new eagerness. We must keep ourselves in the presence of God as much as possible and have no other view or end in all our actions but the divine honor. Carlo Borromeo
• When a man grows aware of a new way in which to serve God, he should carry it around with him secretly, and without uttering it, for nine months, as though he were pregnant with it, and let others know of it only at the end of that time, as though it were a birth. Martin Buber
• True leadership is serving God and not looking for the glory that might come from it. You don’t do it for the glory or personal benefit but for God’s glory. You don’t take credit for anything that is done, but praise God for everything that He has done through you. Vonette Bright
• Serving God – what more beautiful thing is there to do! The only real joy is to be a servant of God, and that means being awake all the time to the needs of the moment…. We cannot have any preconceived ideas of what service means. We never know from one moment to the next, what will be asked of us. Reshad Feild
• Do not distress yourself on account of any distaste or dryness you experience in God’s service. He wills that you should serve Him fervently and constantly it is true, but without any other help than simple faith, and thus your love will be more disinterested, and your service the more pleasing to Him. Margaret Mary Alacoque
• Most of us use ‘I’m waiting for God to reveal His calling on my life’ as a means of avoiding action.  Did you hear God calling you to sit in front of the television yesterday?  Or to go on your last vacation?  Or exercise this morning?  Probably not, but you still did it.  The point isn’t that vacations or exercise are wrong, but that we are quick to rationalize our entertainment and priorities yet are slow to commit to serving God. Francis Chan

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We serve God, our employer, by serving others

• Service to man is service to god. Swami Vivekananda
• Serving God is doing good to man. Benjamin Franklin
• We serve God by serving our fellow man. Fannie Lou Hamer
• They serve God well, who serve his creatures. Caroline Norton
• Service of God consists in what we do to our neighbor. Leo Baeck
• The only way you can serve God is by serving other people. Rick Warren
• It is impossible to serve God without serving one another. Alistair Begg
• The most acceptable service of God is doing good to man. Benjamin Franklin
• The fastest way to know God is to serve the God in someone else. Peter Reinhart
• Whenever you serve others in any way, you are actually serving God. Rick Warren
• Love everyone, serve everyone, remember God, and tell the truth. Neem Karoli Baba
• If we cannot serve a person who we can see, how can we serve a God whom we cannot see? Phil Pringle
• God determines your greatness by how many people you serve, not how many people serve you. Rick Warren
• When ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God. Ronald A. Rasband
• When we promote the well-being of others God has placed in our lives our service glorifies God. Elizabeth George
• Look after everybody So that they are happy to see you. It is better to serve the devotee of god than to serve god himself. H. W. L. Poonja
• William Perkins said, “The end of a man’s calling is not to gather riches for himself…but to serve God in the serving of man, and in the seeking the good of all men. Leland Ryken
• What is it to serve God and to do His will? Nothing else than to show mercy to our neighbor. For it is our own neighbor who needs our service; God in heaven needs it not. Martin Luther
• Life is best spent in alleviating pain, assuaging distress, and promoting peace and joy. The service of man is more valuable than what you call service to God. God has no need of your service. Please man, you please God. Sathya Sai Baba
• Service to humanity is service to God. Let the love and light of the Kingdom radiate through you until all who look upon you shall be illumined by its reflection. Be as stars, brilliant and sparkling in the loftiness of their heavenly station. Abdu’l-Bahá
• Service is God. Why has God endowed man with a body, a mind and an intellect ? Feel with the mind, plan with the intelligence and use the body to serve those who are in need of service. Offer that act of service to God; worship home with that Flower. Sathya Sai Baba
• Men will not understand … that when they fulfil their duties to men, they fulfil thereby God’s commandments; that they are consequently always in the service of God, as long as their actions are moral, and that it is absolutely impossible to serve God otherwise. Immanuel Kant
• I do not know how to love God except by loving the poor. I do not know how to serve God except by serving the poor…. Here, within this great city of nine million people, we must, in this neighborhood, on this street, in this parish, regain a sense of community which is the basis for peace in the world. Dorothy Day

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Serving God, our employer, comes with great rewards and  perks

• Serve God, and God will take care of you. Submit to His will, trust in His grace, and resign yourself into His hands with the assurance that the Lord is well pleased with those that hope in His mercy. Gardiner Spring
• It is serving God and others persistently with full heart and soul that turns testimony of truth into unbreakable spiritual strength. Henry B. Eyring
• It is by serving God and others that we store up heavenly treasures. Everyone gains; no one loses. Randy Alcorn
• It is within my power either to serve God or not to serve Him. Serving Him, I add to my own good and the good of the whole world. Not serving Him, I forfeit my own good and deprive the world of that good, which was in my power to create. Leo Tolstoy
• I felt that God could be realized only through service. Mahatma Gandhi
• Every breath drawn by an individual who truly serves God will elicit a responsive chord from the universe around him. Samson Raphael Hirsch
• Serve God, and God will take care of you. Gardiner Spring
• To serve God, to love God, to enjoy God, is the sweetest freedom in the world. Thomas F. Wilson
• You must flow with the will of God, in the service of God, to obtain the power of God. Benny Hinn
• When we decide to embark in the service of God, great things begin to happen in our life and the lives of people around us. We learn of Him. We come unto Him. Neill F. Marriott
• All service should be regarded as an offering to God, and every opportunity to serve should be welcomed as a gift from God. When service is done in this spirit, it will lead to self- realization. Sathya Sai Baba
• True religion is when you serve God to get nothing else but more of God. J. D. Greear
• As you love God and serve Him, you will undoubtedly experience the greatest adventure life has to offer. Bill Bright
• One of the greatest rewards that we ever receive for serving God is the permission to do still more for Him. Charles Spurgeon
• Serving God doesn’t mean we’ll no longer have difficulties. We’re still on the battlefield, but we don’t have to fight alone. Joyce Meyer

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We are fuelled in our service by God’s sprit…

• It is futile for us to try to serve God without the power of the Holy Spirit. Talent, training, and experience cannot take the place of the power of the Spirit. Warren W. Wiersbe
• We cannot effectively serve God without the Holy Spirit. Derek Prince
• Serve God by doing common actions in a heavenly spirit, and then, if your daily calling only leaves you cracks and crevices of time, fill them up with holy service. Charles Spurgeon

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…and the power of prayer

• Those who have truly decided to serve the Lord God should practice the remembrance of God and uninterrupted prayer… Seraphim of Sarov
• Prayer is the greatest power God has put into our hands for service – praying is harder than doing, at least I find it so, but the dynamic lies that way to advance the Kingdom. Mary Slessor
• Prayer is the link between God’s inexhaustible resources and people’s needs…God is the source of power, but we are the instrument He uses to link the two together. Charles Stanley

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Our service to God, our employer, should come from love, not obligation

• Love God, serve God; everything is in that. Clare of Assisi
• Trying to obey and serve God before we’ve come to love Him can be exhausting. Beth Moore
• I long for nothing more earnestly than to serve God with all my might. Charles Spurgeon
• To serve God, to love God, to enjoy God, is the sweetest freedom in the world. Thomas F. Wilson
• God freely created us so that we might know, love, and serve him in this life and be happy with him forever. God’s purpose in creating us is to draw forth from us a response of love and service here on earth, so that we may attain our goal of everlasting happiness with him in heaven. Ignatius of Loyola
• Spirit filled souls are ablaze for God. They love with a love that glows. They serve with a faith that kindles. They serve with a devotion that consumes. Samuel Chadwick
• We don’t serve God to gain His acceptance; we are accepted so we serve God. We don’t follow Him in order to be loved; we are loved so we follow Him. Neil T Anderson
• The divine love of God turns ordinary acts into extraordinary service. Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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Our service to God, our employer, should be done in a cheerful spirit

• It is not fitting, when one is in God’s service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. Francis of Assisi
• An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. Thomas Fuller
• Serve God joyfully. Let there be no sadness in your life. Mother Teresa
• The best way to serve God is by going in search of your own dreams. Only the happy can spread happiness. Paulo Coelho

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Our aim, in working for God, is to become an instrument for God to bless the world through

• We are all but instruments of God. Stonewall Jackson
• We are all pencils in the hand of God. Mother Teresa
• We are all strings in the concert of God’s joy. Jakob Bohme
• God has His own way of choosing His instruments. Mahatma Gandhi
• Be an instrument, a multiplier of God’s blessings. Robert Muller
• We are but the instruments or assistants, by whom God works. Martin Luther
• There is no greater honour than to be the instrument in God’s hands. Dwight L. Moody
• You are the instruments that God is gonna use to bring about universal change. Louis Farrakhan
• God doesn’t break things so He can fix them; He fixes broken things so He can use them. Bob Goff
• Greatness is in not what you do but how you are an instrument in the hands of God. Radhanath Swami
• To feel one’s faculties expanding the soul is one of life’s most sublime experiences. David McKay
• Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Francis of Assisi
• God chooses as His instrument the humblest and weakest of His creatures to fulfill Himself. Mahatma Gandhi
• God is always working through you; the important thing is to become conscious and co-operate. Mother Meera
• Do all you can to awaken to God within you so the form you take can become an instrument for God’s grace. Anthony Lambert
• Our prayers cannot force God to do anything, but He uses them as His own instruments to bring about His will. C. Sproul
• No woman is a more vibrant instrument in the hands of the Lord than a woman of God who is thrilled to be who she is. Sheri L. Dew
• Man is merely an instrument, and the Lord is the operator. Blessed is he through whom the Lord gets His Work done. Swami Turiyananda
• The truth is that you are the instrument of God, that you have to become one with God, that you have to be born again. Nirmala Srivastava
• Lord God…use me as Your instrument — but do not forsake me, for if ever I should be on my own, I would easily wreck it all. Martin Luther
• Each individual Christian and every community is called to be an instrument of God for the liberation and promotion of the poor. Pope Francis
• If it serves Providence, this bodily life continues, and if it does not, then it ceases. The eventuality is up to the Presence. David R. Hawkins
• As the God you are within form wakes up from a dream, the form you take becomes a beautiful instrument for God’s grace to flow through it. Anthony Lambert
• I had no personal life—my personal will no longer existed. I was an instrument of the Infinite Presence, and I went about and did as it willed. David R. Hawkins
• You have been created by God and for God and someday you will stand amazed at the simple yet profound ways he has used you even when you weren’t aware of it. Kay Arthur
• God is not looking for extraordinary characters as His instruments, but He is looking for humble instruments through whom He can be honored throughout the ages. A. B. Simpson
• Become an instrument for love, healing, peace, joy, wonder and inspiration. Become a Space for the grace of God to flow into the world and bless all living beings. Anthony Lambert
• The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself. Emmet Fox
• But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here. Paulo Coelho
• The goal marked out for us and the call upon us is to grow into the image of God, to dwell in Him and with Him and be a channel of His joy and might and an instrument of His works. Sri Aurobindo
• True spirituality is the acceptance of earth-life. A true seeker is he who accepts life, transforms life and perfects life so that the earth-life can become a conscious instrument of God. Sri Chinmoy
• We are God’s gift to each other. Like a master composer, He brings all the instruments together, each with a different tone, each playing a different part, and He makes it turn out so beautifully. Jack Canfield
• Real religion is not about being a Christian or a Jew or a Muslim. Real religion is about loving God, and dedicating ones life to be an instrument of Gods compassion, kindness towards other living beings. Radhanath Swami
• He that rises after his falls, with confidence in God and profound humility of heart, will become, in God’s hands, a proper instrument for the accomplishment of great things; but he who acts otherwise can never do any good. Paul of the Cross
• When you have constant communion with God, a constant receiving from within, there is never any doubt; you know your way. You become an instrument through which the job is done, therefore you have no feeling of self-achievement. Peace Pilgrim
• Beautiful is the moment in which we understand that we are no more than an instrument of God; we live only as long as God wants us to live; we can only do as much as God makes us able to do; we are only as intelligent as God would have us be. Oscar Romero
• Be willing to be used by God; be willing to be used by Truth. Be willing to be an instrument through which Truth reveals Itself, but do not attempt to use God. Never try to use God, Truth. If you understood the nature of God, never would you pray to God for any thing. Joel S. Goldsmith
• I am here only to be truly helpful. I am here to represent Him Who sent me. I do not have to worry about what to say or what to do, because He Who sent me will direct me.  I am content to be wherever He wishes, knowing He goes there with me.  I will be healed as I let Him teach me to heal. A Course in Miracles
• God does not need your strength: he has more than enough of power of his own. He asks your weakness: he has none of that himself, and he is longing, therefore, to take your weakness, and use it as the instrument in his own mighty hand. Will you not yield your weakness to him, and receive his strength? Charles Spurgeon
• Always bear this in mind: Everything is in God’s hands, and you are His tool to be used by Him as He pleases. Try to grasp the significance of ‘all is His’. and you will immediately feel free from all burdens. What will be the result of your surrender to Him? None will seem alien, all will be your very own Self. Anandamayi Ma
• God is the Inner Ruler. He goads the body, mind and senses to work. Become an instrument in the hands of the Lord. Do not expect thanks or appreciation of your work. Do actions as your duty and offer them and their fruits to the Lord. You will be freed from the bonds of Karma. Your heart will soon be purified. Swami Chidananda
• You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you. The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you. Abraham Verghese
• The most fulfilling experience possible through the human form is to become an instrument for God to experience and express through. God, when awake in a human form, expresses through the form, like music from a flute, as a flow of love, peace, creativity, joy, wonder etc. and in so doing greatly blesses the experience God is having through multiple other forms too. Anthony Lambert
• Become an instrument for God to experience life directly, undistorted by the lens of mind forms. Become an instrument for God to delight directly in the beauty and wonder of this world of form. Become an instrument for God’s healing energy to flow into the world as love, peace and joy. Become an instrument for God to create, tapped into a divine flow of inspiration and creativity.  Anthony Lambert
• God, please use me” is the most powerful affirmation we can say for an abundant career. It is the miracle-worker’s prayer. Everybody wants a great job. Accept that it’s already been given you. The fact that you’re alive means a function has been assigned to you: open your heart to everyone and everything. That way you’re a vessel of God. Don’t worry about what to say or what to do. He’ll let you know. Marianne Williamson
• I always have a feeling of awe and wonder at what God can do – using me as an instrument. I believe that anyone who is fully surrendered to God’s will can be used gloriously – and will really know some things – and will probably be called self-righteous. You’re called self-righteous if you are self-centered enough to think you know everything – but you may also be called self-righteous by the immature if you are God-centered enough to really know some things. Peace Pilgrim
• During the years spent in inner silence, the strength of the Presence grew. Life was no longer personal; a personal will no longer existed. The personal “I” had become an instrument of the Infinite Presence and went about and did as it was willed. People felt an extraordinary peace in the aura of that Presence. Seekers sought answers but as there was no longer any such individual as David, they were actually finessing answers from their own Self, which was not different from mine. From each person the same Self shone forth from their eyes. David R. Hawkins

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Our task is to surrender and allow God’s will to be done through us

• All real pleasure comes from doing God’s Will. This is because not doing it is a denial of Self.  A Course in Miracles
• Everything is the will of God – we are only instruments of her will and we learn to just love and accept. Frederick Lenz
• With progression of consciousness from selfishness to selflessness, the quality of prayer shifts to the willingness to be a servant of the Lord and a channel of His Will without trying to specify the what or the how it is to be done. David R. Hawkins
• I am happy doing only God’s will; serving Him who is residing for a time in this body, and who is in the forms of all.” So this is a different aspect of devotion: To do everything completely detached, while striving and enjoying only to do the will of God. Even if anything untoward happens to the body, the devotee is anxious to make it right only because God is in that bodily temple. Paramahansa Yogananda
• You cannot fulfil God’s purposes for your life while focusing on your own plans. Rick Warren
• We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can / namely, surrender our will and fulfill God’s will in us. Teresa of Avila
• Passivity, not activity; relaxation, not intentness, should be now the rule. Give up the feeling of responsibility, let go your hold, resign the care of your destiny to higher powers, be genuinely indifferent as to what becomes of it all, and you will find not only that you gain a perfect inward relief, but often also, in addition, the particular goods you sincerely thought you were renouncing. William James
• There is no question but one you should ever ask of yourself: Do I want to know my Father’s Will for me?’  A Course in Miracles

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As employees of God, we allow God to unfold His purpose through us

• When awareness expands, events that seem random actually aren’t. A larger purpose is trying to unfold through you. When you become aware of that purpose-which is unique for each person- you become like an architect who has been handed the blueprint. Deepak Chopra
• Let the God within you express itself through you in the world without. Charles Fillmore
• It is through the world and ultimately through you that the Unmanifested knows itself. You are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold. That is how important you are! Eckart Tolle
• Consciousness wants to wake up through form and bless the world. Anthony Lambert
• There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.  Deepak Chopra
• Authentic empowerment is the knowing that you are on purpose, doing God’s work, peacefully and harmoniously. Wayne Dyer
• Before you choose to do anything, ask me if your choice is in accord with mine. If you are sure that it is, there will be no fear. A Course in Miracles 
• Instead of viewing God as one who helps me accomplish my purposes, it is now my joy to help God accomplish the divine purpose – seeking the best for others and seeking the growth of the beloved, which is to say everyone. Philip Gulley

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Ask what God and life wants from you

• Instead of asking ‘what do I want from life?’ a more powerful question is, ‘what does life want from me? Eckhart Tolle
• Don’t ask what is the meaning of life, but what is life asking of me. Victor Frankl
• To discover what your purpose is, all you need do is ask one question: “How is Life calling me to serve it?” If you hold this question in your heart, eventually the answer will come to you much clearer than if you try to figure it out using your mind. Michael Jeffreys

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Make service to God your primary motive

• Use your body and mind wisely in the service of the self, that is all. Nisargadatta Maharaja
• While the functions continue to function, it is now seen that they have always been engaged not for a personal purpose, but to do whatever the vastness deems obvious in the service of freedom. The vastness has its own non-personal desire to perceive itself directly through itself using the circuitry of every human being.   Suzanne Segal
• Make it your goal to serve and love God, rather than to attain enlightenment. David R. Hawkins
• Out of an unrestricted love for God arises the willingness to surrender all motives except to serve God completely. To be the servant of God becomes one’s goal rather than enlightenment. To be a perfect channel for God’s love is to surrender completely and to eliminate the goal seeking of the spiritual ego. Joy itself becomes the initiator of further spiritual work. David R. Hawkins
• His divine spark lives within me, a presence that will never leave. And I am but one of many tools He has at His disposal. If I cannot act – if I refuse to act – that is a choice I am allowed to make. He has given me life, and all I must do to serve Him is to live. Fully and with my whole heart. With this knowledge comes a true understanding of all the gifts He has given me. L. LaFevers
• One makes a gift of one’s life and endeavors by sanctifying it with love, devotion, and selfless service. That is the way of the heart to God. David R. Hawkins
• If our prayer is “Dear God, please use me to be of service,” then that is what we will be. And it is not for us to judge either the size or value of our gifts. Our job is to try to get out of the way, to defer to the spirit moving within us and become open channels for the flow of God’s love. Marianne Williamson
• It is within my power either to serve God, or not to serve Him. Serving Him I add to my own good and the good of the whole world. Not serving Him, I forfeit my own good and deprive the world of that good, which was in my power to create. Leo Tolstoy
• The dedicated ever enjoy Supreme Peace. Therefore, live only to serve. Swami Satchidananda

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Through doing God’s work, allow consciousness to flow through you into the world …

• Your inner purpose is to allow consciousness to arise through being present in the moment. Eckhart Tolle
• The Universe is saying: Allow me to flow through you unrestricted and you will see the greatest magic you have ever seen. Klaus Joehle
• Although the fullness of consciousness is already there as the unmanifested, we are here to bring consciousness into this dimension. Eckhart Tolle
• Our job as conscious humans is to bring the beauty and goodness of everything to full consciousness, to full delight, to full awareness. Richard Rohr
• In any situation and in whatever you do, your state of consciousness is the primary factor; the situation and what you do is secondary. Eckhart Tolle
• Your primary purpose is to enable consciousness to flow into what you do. The secondary purpose is whatever you want to achieve through the doing. Eckhart Tolle
• Consciousness flows through you into this world. It flows into your thoughts and inspires them. It flows into what you do and guides and empowers it. Eckhart Tolle
• You are not here to merely survive but to soar, to express and release the dynamic power of consciousness residing at the deepest center of your being. Michael Bernard Beckwith
• Consciousness is the intelligence, the organizing principle behind the arising of form.
• “Emitting energy” can be such an abstract term to get a hold of, but if we imagine that our consciousness has a fragrance, if we visualize that our words, our gaze, our thoughts have a scent, then the concept starts to land. And then maybe we become more aware of what we’re emanating — or what’s left behind after we leave the room. Danielle LaPorte
• The outer purpose of the universe is to create form and experience the interaction of forms—the play, the dream, the drama, or whatever you choose to call it. Its inner purpose is to awaken to its formless essence. Then comes the reconciliation of outer and inner purpose: to bring that essence—consciousness—into the world of form and thereby transform the world. Eckhart Tolle

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By working for God, become a channel for God…

• God created us to be channels of blessing, but our ability to receive the resources with which He wants us to bless others, depends on our being able to give then away – freely, faithfully, generously. Jack W. Hayford
• Let us be renewed by God’s mercy … and let us become agents of this mercy, channels through which God can water the earth, protect all creation and make justice and peace flourish. Pope Francis
• God has given us two hands – one to receive with and the other to give with. We are cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing. If we fail to fulfill this divine duty and privilege we have missed the meaning of Christianity. Billy Graham
• What I walk on is not the energy of youth, it is a better energy. I walk on the endless energy of inner peace that never runs out! When you become a channel through which God works there are no more limitations, because God does the work through you: you are the instrument – and what God can do is unlimited. When you are working for God you do not find yourself striving and straining. You find yourself calm, serene and unhurried. Peace Pilgrim
• It is because he has purged himself of selfness that divine Reality is able to use him as a channel of grace and power. Aldous Huxley
• Life comes from death. To the degree that I can live in the death of Jesus – to that degree I can channel God’s life to others. Louie Giglio
• Man flows at once to God when the channel of purity is open. Henry David Thoreau
• Prayer lays hold of God’s plan and becomes the link between His will and its accomplishment on earth. Amazing things happen, and we are given the privilege of being the channels of the Holy Spirit’s prayer. Elisabeth Elliot
• The purpose of God’s blessing is to enable you to be a great channel of blessing to others. If you have nothing, there is nothing you can do for anyone else; if you have a little, you can only help a little; but if you have plenty, there is a whole lot you can do. When you are blessed, you have a mighty foundation from which to impact others. You are blessed to be a blessing. Brian Houston
• To have an open self is to provide a free channel for the infinite goodness of God. To have an open self is to keep yourself aware, alert and sensitive to the beauty and wonder of life. God’s love will flow through you into the world when you are open. You enlarge the dimensions of your life when you keep yourself open to the highest and best. The key to God’s infinite riches is within you; open yourself and you will receive. Wilferd Peterson
• When real music comes to me – the music of the spheres, the music that surpasses understanding – that has nothing to do with me, cause I’m just the channel. The only joy for me is for it to be given to me, and to transcribe it like a medium… those moments are what I live for. John Lennon
• When the dream in our heart is one that God has planted there, a strange happiness flowers into us. At that moment all of the spiritual resources of the universe are released to help us. Our praying is then at one with the will of God and becomes a channel for the Creator’s always joyous, triumphant purposes for us and our world. Catherine Marshall
• When you center life around yourself, not only do you miss out on God’s best, but you rob other people of the joy and blessings that God wants to give them through you. Joel Osteen

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…especially a channel for God’s love

• Let God love you through others and let God love others through you. M. Street
• Q: What prayers are useful? A: Ask to be the servant of the Lord, a vehicle of divine love, a channel of God’s will. Ask for direction and divine assistance and surrender all personal will through devotion. Dedicate one’s life to the service of God. Choose love and peace above all other options. Commit to the goal of unconditional love and compassion for all life in all its expression and surrender all judgment to God. David R. Hawkins
• As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. Carl Jung
• Remember, we are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we’re so deeply interconnected with one another. Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is the supreme creative act. Ram Dass
• As I radiate love and goodwill to others, I will open the channel for God’s love to come to me. Paramahansa Yogananda
• Dear God, I trust that no matter what happens in my life, it is for my highest good. And no matter what happens in the lives of those I love, it is for their highest good. From all things that are put before us all, we shall become stronger and more loving people. I am grateful for all the beauty and opportunity you put into my life. And in all that I do, I shall seek to be a channel for your love. Susan Jeffers
• Paradise is to be the ultimate instrument, fulfilling God’s desperate intent that we love each other. Ruby Dee
• If our prayer is “Dear God, please use me to be of service,” then that is what we will be. And it is not for us to judge either the size or value of our gifts. Our job is to try to get out of the way, to defer to the spirit moving within us and become open channels for the flow of God’s love. Marianne Williamson
• We are gripped by God’s will of love, and must help carry out that will in this world, in small things as in great things, in saving as in pardoning. To be glad instruments of God’s love in this imperfect world is the service to which we are called. Albert Schweitzer
• I’m a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world. Mother Teresa
• The art of love is God at work through you. Wilferd Peterson
• There is no one in the world who cannot arrive without difficulty at the most eminent perfection by fulfilling with love obscure and common duties. J. P. de Caussade
• We are on this earth to become the Spirit, to be a channel of God’s love and above all, to enter into the Kingdom of God. Nirmala Srivastava

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Allow God to create through you

• God goes on creating through us. Joan D. Chittister
• You are a paintbrush in the hands of the Artist. Heidi Baker
• Creation is a process that is still happening and we’re in on it! We are a part of this endless creativity of God. Richard Rohr
• To be creative is to worship. To be creative is to participate in the great process of creation – and participating in creativity is participating in God. Rajneesh
• There is no separation between us and God-we are divine expressions of the creative principle…there can be no real lack or scarcity; there is nothing we have to try to achieve or attract; we contain the potential for everything within us. Shakti Gawain
• God Himself begins to live in me not only as my Creator but as my other and true self. Thomas Merton
• God is creating at every moment of the world’s existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world. Arthur Peacocke
• God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us. Insofar as man partakes of this creative process does he partake of the divine, of God, and that participation is his immortality. Alfred North Whitehead
• God is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human form. Guru Nanak
• On the sixth day, God created the artist, realizing no doubt that He had far from exhausted the uses of color. Robert Breault
• Once in his lifetime every artist feels the hand of God and creates something that comes alive. Crane Wilbur

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Realise that it is God, your employer, that creates all great works through you

• It is not I but the Father within me who does the works. And “I can of my own self do nothing. Jesus Christ
• It is the Higher Power which does everything, and the man is only a tool. If he accepts that position, he is free from troubles; otherwise, he courts them. Ramana Maharshi
• Those whose spiritual awareness has been awakened never make a false move. They don’t have to avoid evil. They are so replete with love that whatever they do is a good action. They are fully conscious that they are not the doer of their actions, but only servants of God. Ramakrishna
• In the recovery movement, they call what I’m talking about letting go and letting God. If you’re uncomfortable with the word God, just add an o and make it Good. The two words are interchangeable. It just means allowing this divine source of kindness, beauty and creativity to be the dominant force in your life – whatever you’re doing. I truly believe that God writes all the books and builds all the bridges. Sure, I sit down for six or seven hours a day with my pen and pads – but the message moves though me and I just allow. Wayne Dyer

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On a lighter note

• Work for God. The retirement benefits are great.