If anyone can help me identify the exact wording of this quote and/or its author, I would really appreciate it.

It goes something like, "The only life worth living is that which is lived in service to others." Or maybe it is "The best life is the one lived in service to others."

I want to say that the author was a religious philosopher or something like that, like a Christian intellectual or something, but I could be way off. Anyone who can help me with the correct quote and the author's name, your help will be greatly appreciated!

This is interesting (it doesn't answer your question, though)
http://www.education.usbnc.org/a_themes/bahai_essentials/12_ServicetotheCause.pdf

As soon as I saw that Quotation, I thought Mother Teresa.

A life worth living ... is a life lived for others
Philippians 1:27 - 2:18
http://www.milfordbaptist.co.nz/sermon_life2.htm

It's all over the Internet attributed to Albert Einstein: (Including on Quoteland's database)

"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."
~~Albert Einstein
http://www.quoteland.com/author.asp?AUTHOR_ID=89
http://www.giga-usa.com/gigaweb1/quotes2/qutoplifex005.htm]
http://www.nonstopenglish.com/reading/Quotations/index.asp?search=life+lived

I just couldn't seem to find a source for it.



Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
~~Helen Keller
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/h/helenkelle121771.html
http://webpages.ainet.com/gosner/quotationsarch/quotations1/topics/duty.htm

" Only a life lived for others is worth living."
~~Author Unknown
http://www.motivateus.com/teens34a.htm

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Since no man knows the future, who can tell him what is to come? No man has power over the wind to contain it so no one has power over the day of his death. As no one is discharged in time of war, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.
~~The Bible - Ecclesiastes 8:7-8 :: King James Version (KJV)

Thank you so much for your help!