Quotes About Stewardship

Managing university finances is very tricky business. We're nonprofits. We're not supposed to accumulate large surpluses.

God is looking for godly people to send to the world of finances to subdue it for him.

After all it is not what you make, it is what you keep or pass on.

Wild animals are not meant to be owned, any more than human beings are. Nobody has the right to pass a cougar or a gorilla on from hand to hand.

It's the flock, the grove, that matters. Our responsibility is to species, not to specimens; to communities, not to individuals.

We must protect the forests for our children, grandchildren and children yet to be born. We must protect the forests for those who can't speak for themselves such as the birds, animals, fish and trees.

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.

I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street.

Dar a D•os lo que es de D•os y al César lo que es del César: repartija y prorrateo.

Respect the place you live, be aware of the impact that you have on things.

We cannot live without the Earth or apart from it, and something is shrivelled in a man's heart when he turns away from it and concerns himself only with the affairs of men

It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed but not bought. It may be used, but not owned. ... We are tenants and not possessors, lovers and not masters.

The brain is a goal-seeking organism. Setting a goal creates structural tension in your brain, which will seek to close the gap between where you are and where you want to be, who you are and who you want to become. If you don't set goals, your mind will become stagnant. Goal setting is good stewardship of your right-brain imagination. It's also great for your prayer life.

Goal setting is good stewardship. Instead of letting things happen, goals help us make things happen. Instead of living by default, goals help us live by design. Instead of living out of memory, goals help us live out of imagination.

If the blessing stops with you, it'll eventually stop altogether! Instead of being a conduit for blessing and maintaining forward momentum, we settle for sideways energy.

Diezmar es confiar. Y cuando pones a Cristo en el primer lugar en tus finanzas, vives con unas expectativas santificadas.

Si aún vives en el mundo de la suma y la resta te es difícil dar el diezmo porque sientes como que les estás restando el diez por ciento a tus ingresos. Pero una vez que te gradúes y pases a la multiplicación, te darás cuenta de que Dios puede hacer más con el noventa por ciento, que tú con el cien por ciento. ¿Por qué? Porque cuando tú introduces a Dios en la ecuación de tus finanzas, el juego cambia.

Are you playing offense in your marriage? Or are you playing a prevent defense that leaves romance on the sidelines? Are you parenting reactively or proactively? Do you have a spiritual growth plan? Are you working for a paycheck or stewarding your God-given gifts pursuing a God-ordained dream? Are you trying to break even spiritually by avoiding sin? Or are you going for broke by invading the darkness with the light and love of Jesus Christ?

This verse is not just about capturing sinful thoughts and getting them out of our minds; it's also about capturing creative thoughts and keeping them in our minds. It means stewarding every word, thought, impression, and revelation inspired by the Spirit of God.

Si pones en la mano de Dios lo poco que tienes en tus manos, no solo saldrá bien la cuenta, sino que Dios lo va a multiplicar.

Those who are rich in the things of this world need to remember that all they possess come from the Creator. He owns it all. This is a relevant reminder in our day as well:

In his farewell address to the nation after serving two terms as president, George Washington urged his fellow citizens to "avoid . . . the accumulation of debt not only by shunning occasions of expense but by vigorous exertions to discharge the debts, not throwing upon posterity the burden which we ourselves ought to bear.

In his farewell address to the nation after serving two terms as president, George Washington urged his fellow citizens to "avoid . . . the accumulation of debt not only by shunning occasions of expense but by vigorous exertions to discharge the debts, not throwing upon posterity the burden which we ourselves ought to bear."76

the "environment" is not a place we vacation to gaze at warblers, but our home, the one and only garden that feeds us. In