Quotes About Stewardship

In the same way once a book is printed and published it ceases to be the property of the author; he commits it to the care of other people;

the lot in life of any particular sheep depended on the type of man who owned it.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.

Successful people know that hours, like capital, can be consciously allocated with the goal of creating riches—in the form of a changed world, a life's work—over time. Indeed, successful people understand that work hours must be more carefully stewarded than capital because time is absolutely limited. You can earn more money, but the mightiest among us is granted no more than 168 hours per week, and it is physically impossible to work for all of them.

top of the pinnacle came the pilot, who plotted the ship's route; the master, who supervised the precious cargo;

Christians ought to have a different approach to business. As believers, we should view work as both service and a form of worship.

We must turn away from an attitude of nature-as-engineering-object to one of humble partnership.

Through a million little choices every day, we are cashing in the earth.

Your Talents SCRIPTURE READING: LUKE 19:12– 27 KEY VERSE: LUKE 19:17

Nature befriends those who befriend her.

There can be nothing in the world more beautiful than the Yosemite, the groves of the giant sequoias and redwoods, the Canyon of the Colorado, the Canyon of the Yellowstone, the Three Tetons; and our people should see to it that they are preserved for their children and their children's children forever, with their majestic beauty all unmarred.

Milk the cow, but do not pull off the udder.

A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit.

Only when the last fish is gone, the last river poisoned, the last tree cut down...will mankind realize they cannot eat money.

It wasn't the Exxon Valdez captain's driving that caused the Alaskan oil spill. It was yours.

Man did not weave the web of life—he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."1

and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts of both Earth and Heaven.

The quality of a good life depends in large measure on how a man reacts to his natural environment, and we cannot destroy one without diminishing the other.

Save your world. Love it. Protect it, and respect it and don't let haters represent it. Don't leave the saving to anyone else, ever, because, exhibit A - why, hello there - it's way too much for one person. And if you want to skip out on the responsibility train, my whole life - and death - will have been in vain. It's yours. It's all yours for taking! You're not going to waste it now, are you?

To whom much is given, much is expected

Our Father knew exactly what He was doing when He created us. He made us enough alike to love each other, but enough different that we would need to unite our strengths and stewardships to create a whole.

If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.

But when I look at the fact that today is 1,000 days that we have not had a budget for the United States of America, you know, the House, one of the things we did, we passed a budget last year. But that is still sitting over there at the Senate. And so we have got to get this country back on track.

God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and that the Earth should also be a property common to all.