Quotes About Stewardship

There is no business on a dead planet

People who own the world outright for profit will have to be stopped by influence, by power, by us.

God desires your increase in your leadership, stewardship, relationship, and business

Church and business are compatible

God is looking for sons to send to the world of business to manage it for him.

Jesus Christ is the Master of the business we are doing. We are not the master

persevering secretary of the Society for Providing Public Access to Places of Interest and Beauty

Just as we will spend large sums to preserve cities like Venice, even though future generations conceivably may not be interested in such architectural treasures, so we should preserve wilderness even though it is possible that future generations will care little for it.

Of course, the way they put it, the idea was if we had to buy our gas masks and bomb shelters we'd take better care of them. As if we ever damaged telephones and sidewalks. Or highways, because the whole state provided them. Or armies.

It was puzzling to own trees - they were not owned the way a business os owned or even a house is owned. If anything, they were held in trust. In trust. Yes, for all of posterity,...

the only unfailing guide I've ever found through the innumerable blind alleys of my life as a writer, man, husband, father, citizen, steward, or believer, is the love burning in my heart. for me, prayer is about one thing: making contact with that love. though it burns in there like a candle flame, hot, bright, beautiful, love's flame is so fragile… keeping one's love burning, and living in accord with that burning: this, to me, is prayer.

According to the Bible, the antidote to materialism is generosity.

It makes far better sense to reshape ourselves to fit a finite planet than to attempt to reshape the planet to fit our infinite wants

Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves. This we know: the earth does not belong to man—man belongs to the earth. This we know. All things are connected like the blood that unites one family. All things are connected.125

Give children a chance to love the earth before we ask them to save it.

Atlantis was one name for an ancient civilization that went through a terrible catastrophe and that we now have the opportunity to not repeat the same mistakes. We have the opportunity to use our technology responsibly and to steward the earth rather than steer it into its own destruction.

What sucks the worst is . . . this world was a gift to us, and we broke it, and part of the deal is that if we want things right, we have to fix it ourselves. But we can't. We try, but we can't.

May I tell you a wonderful truth about your dog? ... You have been given stewardship of what you in your faith might call a holy soul.

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it a mistress, if thou knowest not.

S? nu d?m deci vina pe politicieni: r?ul începe cu noi, cei care distrugem natura, murd?rim str?zile, facem irespirabile blocurile, transform?m în haznale spa?iile publice ?i ne umilim cu sete ?i sadism semenii. R?ul începe de la scara blocului.

We're at war with nature. If we win, we're lost.

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

The greatest gift this generation can give future generations is a HEALTHY PLANET.

Stage 1: The Industrial Era, from the early 1800s to 1945, when atmospheric CO2 exceeded the upper limit of Holocene variation; and Stage 2: The Great Acceleration, from 1945 to the present, "when the most rapid and pervasive shift in the human-environment relationship began." (They also—over-optimistically, I'd say—predicted that a third stage, "Stewards of the Earth," would begin in 2015.)