Quotes About Stewardship

Being a good steward of those material things that God has given our churches is good. Becoming obsessed with any one item to the neglect of His mission is idolatry.

where the money of the church goes, so goes its heart.

What I have given, I can take away and restore when it pleases Me. What I give remains Mine, and thus when I take it away I take nothing that is yours, for every good gift and every perfect gift is Mine.

Shepherds of the flock should . . . seek the good of their flock, and every ruler the good of the people subject to him.

The rich do not act improperly if they before others take possession of property that was in the beginning common and share the property with others. But the rich sin if they indiscriminately prevent others from using the property.

What are you doing in God's fair Earth and Task-garden; where whosoever is not working is begging or stealing? Wo, wo to themselves and to all, if they can only answer: Collecting tithes, Preserving game!

What's near and dear to my heart is cooperative conservation.

The only legacy I seek is the one that any grandparent seeks - that is, to hand off our nation... our fields and our farms to the next generation in better shape than we found it.

When it comes to the income of the ministry, I have no problem talking about it or what happens to the money.

A place belongs to anyone who has a use for it.

A gift should never be squandered on what you can do with your wit and your hands or your back.

Owning land, he mused, being responsible for it. Plowing, planting, tending, watching things grow. Keeping an eye on the sky, sniffing the air for a turn in the weather. Not a life for Grayson Thane, he thought, but imagined some would find it rewarding. There'd been that simple pride of ownership in Murphy Muldoon's walk—a man who knew his feet were planted on his own.

Changing it without damaging it. If you cut down a tree, is what you're putting in its place worth the sacrifice?

For thousands of years, human beings had screwed up and trashed and crapped on this planet, and now history expected me to clean up after everyone. I have to wash out and flatten my soup cans. And account for every drop of used motor oil. And I have to foot the bill for nuclear waste and buried gasoline tanks and landfilled toxic sludge dumped a generation before I was born.

Only when we eat up this planet will God give us another. We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.

And I say, that's different. Humans are above animals. Animals were put on this planet to feed and serve humanity. Human beings are precious and intelligent and unique, and God gave the animals to us. They're our property. Of course you'd say that, Helen says, you're on the winning team.

Only when we eat up this planet will God give us another. We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.

Don't think of this as extinction. Think of this as downsizing. For thousands of years, human beings had screwed up and trashed and crapped on this planet, and now history expected me to clean up after everyone. I have to wash out and flatten my soup cans. And account for every drop of used motor oil. And I have to foot the bill for nuclear waste and buried gasoline tanks and landfilled toxic sludge dumped a generation before I was born.

We made our choice, he said. We hunted for them, we guarded their brats. God knows, we helped them make a civilization, didn't we? And why? I said I didn't know; it was beyond me. Because, he said, we thought they knew how to take care of things. How to keep the world full of meat and flowers.

How could they be on opposite sides when it came to protecting the planet that hosted all of them?

For of those to whom much is given, much is required." Since Ohlmeyer was a gifted mathematician, much

For of those to whom much is given, much is required.

the sort of fish that a good fisherman puts back into the water

the sort of fish that a good fisherman puts back into the water so that it may grow fatter and be one day worth cooking and eating.