Quotes About Stewardship

a thing is not property unless it is owned; and without ownership, there is little incentive to improve it.

What is put into the hands of B cannot be put into the hands of A.

The directive to "fill the earth" (Gen. 1:28) is not primarily a reproductive command. The "filling" of the earth is a cuh«re/activity.

He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, he provideth a kindness for many generations, and faces that he hath not seen shall bless him.

My field was God's earth. Wherever I ploughed, there was my field. Land was free. It was a thing no man called his own. Labor was the only thing men called their own.

The price is high. God does not want partnership with us, but ownership of us.

And it is also the story of Norman Kent, who was his friend, and how at one moment in that adventure he held the fate of two nations, if not of all Europe, in his hands; how he accounted for that stewardship; and how, one quiet summer evening, in a house by the Thames, with no melodrama and no heroics, he fought and died for an idea.

The gifts God bestows are not from us, nor are they for us so that we can feel good about ourselves. They are to be used to benefit others and glorify him (1 Peter 4:10).

God's kingship is present in the church, but it must be insisted that it is not the property of the church. It

Life is not wreckage to be saved out of the world but an investment to be used in the world.

The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth.

Those who use tobacco, tea and coffee should lay these idols aside, and put their cost into the treasury of the Lord.

The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.

My brother and I became convinced that to buy and sell legally sheared vicuna hair was the only way to help the vicuna increase in numbers. If the animal becomes useful to society, people will take care of the animal; if it's not useful, they will not take care.

When I joined Ford, in the late 1970s, I felt strongly we could not forever be a huge user of natural resources without there being consequences. But I was alone in my thinking in those days.

We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'

We've been given the gift of a billion years of cosmic time, and we should not screw it up. But at the rate we're using up our planet's natural resources and fouling our own nest means we're not going to last a billion years.

Conservation is an American value, and it is lacking from this bill.

Our beliefs, our values shape the way we look out at the world and the way we treat it. If we believe that we were here, placed here by God, that this - all of this creation is for us, it's for us to go and occupy, dominate and exploit, then we will proceed to do that.

In carrying out every aspect of our work, CIA officers are guided by a professional ethos that is the sum of our abiding principles, core values, and highest aspirations. These include service, integrity, excellence, courage, teamwork, and stewardship. Sacrifice, too, is an inescapable part of our mission.

On comprenait que les hommes pourraient être aussi efficaces que Dieu dans d'autres domaines que la destruction.

you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and that the earth itself belongs to nobody

you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us al, and that the earth itself belongs to nobody

If Earth's children ever forget who provides for them, we may wake up someday and find we don't have a home.