Quotes About Stewardship

You have to set limits with "getting there" people, or they will tend to take increasingly large amounts of the energy, time, money, and talent God gave you to accomplish his purposes.

God owns our relationships—we do not—and that he has a higher purpose for them than we do.

Good parenting, which does what God intends it to do, begins with this radical and humbling recognition that our children don't actually belong to us. Rather, every child in every home, everywhere on the globe, belongs to the One who created him or her. Children are God's possession (see Ps. 127:3) for his purpose.

We are such spendthrifts with our lives, the trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I'm not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out.

What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, I'm a numbers guy, that's my attitude. I know we have a debt tsunami coming, we are bankrupting this country and I'm in a position where I can actually advance ideas to prevent that from happening. That's exactly what I should be doing.

How are we to become native to this land?" (as quoted in Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land by Amy Irvine)

I wonder what would happen if there were a United Organization of Organisms (UOO, pronounced "uh-oh"), where each species gets one vote. Would we be voted off the planet? The answer is pretty clear. When we irresponsibly exploit the Earth, disease, famine, and ecological collapse result. We face the possibility of being rejected by the biosphere as a virulent organism. But if we act as a responsible species, nature will not evict us.

Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium.

She was like a farmer who keeps horses in order to haul away the manure that they generate.

The lord giveth and most women piss it away. Perhaps this is why they lack the equipment to aim.

Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.

The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me.

and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all that you have is multiplied,

But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to give as generously as this? For everything comes from You, and from Your own hand we have given to You.

all sheep and oxen, and even the beasts of the field,

for every beast of the forest is Mine—the cattle on a thousand hills.

I know every bird in the mountains, and the creatures of the field are Mine.

He made him master of his household, ruler over all his substance,

Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your harvest;

A large population is a kingís splendor, but a lack of subjects is a princeís ruin.

No longer will they build houses for others to inhabit, nor plant for others to eat. For as is the lifetime of a tree, so will be the days of My people, and My chosen ones will fully enjoy the work of their hands.

Truly I tell you, he will put him in charge of all his possessions.

For it is just like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted them with his possessions.

To one he gave five talents, to another two talents, and to another one talent—each according to his own ability. And he went on his journey.