Quotes on Service

"I wish here to offer a special word of gratitude and appreciation to all those who take part in these activities... For young people, this widespread involvement constitutes a school of life which offers them a formation in solidarity and in readiness to offer others not simply material aid but their very selves. The anti-culture of death... is thus countered by unselfish love which shows itself to be a culture of life by the very willingness to "lose itself" for others." - Pope Benedict XVI, Deus Caritas Est (Encyclical on Love)