Quotes About Stewardship

We are the environment.

In losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of creation.

We must conserve our environment and pass it on to our children in as good or better condition than it was passed to us.

In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial.

What is urgently needed is a bold new move from a consumer economy to a conserver economy in all of the developed countries, and particularly in the United States.

One must leave an inheritance to their next generation in form of safer environment.

Love water, protect it:

Keep the environment clean and the waters clear as crystal.

The realisation that our small planet is only one of many worlds gives mankind the perspective it needs to realise sooner that our own world belongs to all its creatures.

In the end we must, I think, somehow conclude that they have as much right to this planet as we have.

Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day

Something happens when you feel ownership. You no longer act like a spectator or consumer, because you're an owner. Faith is at its best when it's that way too. It's best lived when it's owned.

The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.

The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

I think it is not well known in the Church that payment of tithing has very little to do with money. Tithing has to do with faith.

We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.

Remember that your children are not your own, but are lent to you by the Creator.

Don't try to own anything in Life as nothing belongs to you but it's given to you in trust

Through the gift of this natural world, we are not meant to take advantage and destroy, but we are invited to use and replenish.

They had no years of lean harvest, when they must scrape the bottom of their stores, and no good years either, that they might learn to save.

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. Even so, God cannot save them from fools.

As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God's ways