Quotes About Stewardship

If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

Humans have "dominion" over animals. But that "dominion" (radah in Hebrew) does not mean despotism, rather we are set over creation to care for what God has made and to treasure God's own treasures.

Never imagine that what you do for others or what you do in private doesn't matter. It counts more than we know. God watches how we steward what is not our own before He entrusts us with more.

To limit the ways our daughters can legitimately function as stewards/rulers further devalues the image of God in them and continues the imbalance and distortion of God's plan.

The rewards of my life have been great. I built a company; I left things better than I found them. I have a good reputation. I put the Vanguard shareholders and crew first. That's a huge thing.

Praised be You, my Lord, through our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, producing varied fruits with coloured flowers and herbs.

Our responsibility for BLM lands is multiple-use, meaning a variety of needs and uses.

Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources.

We need to reconceive the idea of a good society in the early twenty-first century and to find a creative path toward it. Most important, we need to be ready to pay the price of civilization through multiple acts of good citizenship: bearing our fair share of taxes, educating ourselves deeply about society's needs, acting as vigilant stewards for future generations, and remembering that compassion is the glue that holds society together.

People felt they owned the trees. Their dogs had marked them daily. Their children had used them for home plate. The trees had been there when they'd moved in, and had promised to be there when they moved out. But when the Parks Department came to cut them down, it was clear our trees were not ours but the city's. to do with as it wished.

A man takes care of his house, and a man takes care of his tools.

We must work together to save and strengthen Social Security not just for my father's generation but also for my daughters' generation.

Since God is the one who calls people to their work, the worker becomes a steward who serves God.

Today is the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation. Let us work and pray.

We don't have to be that greedy generation that just continued to take down the underpinnings of what makes the planet work in our favor.

Work is taking the raw material of creation and developing it for the sake of others.

Resources don't last forever. They must either be USED, MANAGED or they will be WASTED.

Time is God's given asset to humans

You shouldn't claim the land alone but also take on responsibilities and change the land

From a pound of iron, that costs little, a thousand watch-springs can be made, whose value becomes prodigious. The pound you have received from the Lord, --use it faithfully.

Nature is regulating our climate for free. Mother Nature, she's been doing that for free, for a long, long time. Now do you really want to get in there and do geo-engineering and all this kind of stuff?

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

The earth does not belong to man; man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites one family. 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.

To use the world well, to be able to stop wasting it and our time in it, we need to relearn our being in it.