No matter how big and powerful government gets, and the many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
Without volunteers, we'd be a nation without a soul.
The usual trouble with volunteers is not killing them with overwork, but simply boring them to death.
A "just war" - if there could be such a thing - would not require conscription. Volunteers would be plentiful.
God build’s God’s kingdom. But God ordered this world in such a way that His own work within that world takes place through the human beings that reflect His image. That is central to the notion of being made in God’s image. He has enlisted us to act as His stewards in the project of creation. So the objection about us trying to build God’s kingdom by our own efforts, though it seems humble and pious, can actually be a way of hiding from responsibility, of keeping one’s head well down when the boss is looking for volunteers.
Have you ever wondered why Republicans are so interested in encouraging people to volunteer in their communities? It’s because volunteers work for no pay. Republicans have been trying to get people to work for no pay for a long time.
Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation's compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another.
The starship thing is really political action and reaction, the natural outgrowth of Volunteers.
They fought on with a devotion which would puzzle the generation of the 1980s. More surprising, in many instances it would have baffled the men they themselves were before Pearl Harbor. Among MacArthur's ardent infantrymen were cooks, mechanics, pilots whose planes had been shot down, seamen whose ships had been sunk, and some civilian volunteers.
Aaron was one of the few Jewish volunteers in our study, and I felt a certain kinship with him at that level.
What volunteers bring is the human touch, the individual, caring approach that no government program, however well-meaning and well- executed, can deliver.
You know, 1% of us is in the armed forces, protecting the other 99, and they're all volunteers.
Volunteering is so pervasive it's invisible. We take for granted all the things that have been pioneered by concerned, active volunteers.
We are 6. 6 billion people now. We can only feed 4 billion. I don't see 2 billion volunteers to disappear.
I can't work any harder. I can't do any more. I am literally just blown away and humbled by the volunteers and how hard they're working. I think they've got a sense that they're going to be part of something bigger than themselves.
I do not want to give any orders to the airmen, but get hold of a Komsomol air unit, and say I want volunteers for the job.
People forget that the church is bigger than China. It speaks more languages than the United Nations. It has more volunteers than all the NGOs in the world put together.
If you are a local church or non-profit, you live and die with volunteers.
Israel is in the midst of a difficult military and diplomatic campaign against terrorists. An organisation that works to prove allegations that Israel is committing war crimes should be so good as to do so with its own resources and not with civilian national service volunteers and state funds.
