Quotes About Stewardship

I felt that one of the things God impressed on me was that I needed to start a nonprofit corporation, so that any money that came my way, whether it was an honorarium, a book sale or a gift, would go into a nonprofit ministry.

A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator.

I would like to see whether my supposed successors can really operate the government without causing a crisis.

Employers are like horses — they require management.

The language of the wilderness is the most beautiful language we have and it is our job to sing it, until and even after it is gone, no matter how much it hurts.

invested with the dignity of possession.

Self-care is never a selfish act - it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others. Anytime we can listen to true self and give the care it requires, we do it not only for ourselves, but for the many others whose lives we touch.

For Dimon steps such as taking write-downs when necessary and always preserving the quality of capital are part of "doing the right thing

Our challenge is to fill our hours, minutes, and actions from day to day with the appropriate amount of love for God's creation and creating, and then work to produce more of the good he has put in this world. This is every person's calling.

The spirit and the manner of the Chief Shepherd should be the one adopted by the undershepherds.

The idealization of poverty is one of the most dangerous illusions of Christians in the contemporary world. Stewardship—which requires possessions and includes giving—is the true spiritual discipline in relation to wealth.

As you manage your money, you manage your life.

The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer

Exactly. That's what's been happening here for the past ten thousand years: You've been doing what you damn well please with the world. And of course you mean to go right on doing what you damn well please with it, because the whole damn thing belongs to you.

If the world was made for us, then it BELONGS to us and we can do what we damn well please with it.

Whenever a Taker couple talk about how wonderful it would be to have a big family, they're reenacting this scene behind the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. They're saying to themselves, 'Of course it's our right to apportion life on this planet as we please. Why stop of four kids or six? We can have fifteen if we like. All we have to do is plow under another few hundres acres of rain forest -- and who cares if a dozen other species disappear as a result?

N]ow we have a clearer idea what this story is all about: The world was made for man, and man was made to rule it.

May the forests be with you and with your children.

And if being civilized means anything at all, it should mean you're the leaders of the club, not its only criminals and destroyers.

Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, with a single powerful blow, shattered for all time a complex article of fundamental articles of our cultural faith; that the world was capable of repairing any damage we might do to it; that the world was designed to do this, that the world was on our side; that God himself had fashioned the world specifically to support our efforts to conquer and rule it.

"On the first day of every week, each one of you is to put aside a sum of money in keeping with his income, saving it up, so that when I come, no collections will have to be made."

"Be shepherd's for God's flock that is under your care… not greedy for money, but eager to serve."

What our Seventh Generation will have is a consequence of our actions today.

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.