Quotes About Stewardship

Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he'll evolve to become so skilled at fishing he destroys the ocean and kills every last fish.

But of all the animals, man holds the fate of the world in his hands.

Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so.

The school depends not on man, or any set of men. God planted it, and we are but gardeners to take care of it.

In seventeen of His thirty-seven parables, Jesus dealt with property and man's responsibility for using it wisely.

The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men.

Fine thoughts are wealth, for the right use of which Men are and ought to be accountable,-- If not to Thee, to those they influence.

I don't know if human activity is the only cause, but mostly, in great part, it is man who has slapped nature in the face, we have in a sense taken over nature.

We have, in a sense, lorded it over nature, over Sister Earth, over Mother Earth, i think man has gone too far.

Nature has left nothing to the mercy of man.

I should be glad if all the meadows on the earth were left in a wild state, if that were the consequence of men's beginning to redeem themselves.

We seem to think that the earth must go through the ordeal of sheep-pasturage before it is habitable by man.

The mission of men there seems to be, like so many busy demons, to drive the forest all out of the country, from every solitary beaver swamp and mountain-side, as soon as possible.

Money in the hands of one or two men is like a dungheap in a barnyard. So long as it lies in a mass, it does no good; but, if it is only spread out evenly on the land, everything will grow.

If a man's religion does not affect his use of money, that man's religion is vain.

Man's dominion is a call to service, not a license to to exterminate.

It is a tragedy when the church saves money instead of saving souls. We MUST spend to save.

If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.

Save your money, pay your taxes, it doesn't last forever.

Having, First, gained all you can, and, Secondly saved all you can, Then give all you can.

The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

Not, how much of my money will I give to God, but, how much of God's money will I keep for myself?

The only investment I ever made which has paid consistently increasing dividends is the money I have given to the Lord.

You entrust your money to banks, God entrusts His money to you. How would you feel if the bank took your money and used it to play the lottery or gamble with it? So, how does God feel?