Quotes About Stewardship

Givers for God disarm the power of money.

We are at best but stewards of what we falsely call our own; yet avarice is so insatiable that it is not in the power of liberality to content it.

And what does it mean to take care of power? Do you use it? Conserve it? Keep it out of the wrong hands?

Funds are low again, hallelujah! That means God trusts us and is willing to leave His reputation in our hands.

We have to shift our attitude of ownership of nature to relationship with nature. The moment you change from ownership to relationship, you create a sense of the sacred.

If there is to be a human future, we must bring ourselves into balanced relationship with one another and the Earth.

Economy without ecology means managing the human nature relationship without knowing the delicate balance between humankind and the natural world

All human activities, professions, programs, and institutions must henceforth be judged primarily by the extent to which they inhibit, ignore, or foster a mutually enhancing human/Earth relationship.

Conservation viewed in its entirety, is the slow and laborious unfolding of a new relationship between people and land.

Garden making, like gardening itself, concerns the relationship of the human being to his natural surroundings.

He was uniformly of an opinion which, though not a popular one, he was ready to aver, that the right of governing was not property, but a trust.

For everything that God desires to do in the earth, He enters into partnership with those to whom He has already given dominion.

We are only the trustees for those who come after us.

How can you care about the image of a landscape, when you show by your deeds that you don't care for the landscape itself?

To claim the world as created is to claim God's care for it and our responsibility to care for it.

Read ecologically, the psalm [Ps 104] claims God's biophilia as a model for humanity's role and presence in the world. Delighting in creation has nothing to do with exploiting the world for the common greed. Rather, it has all to do with receiving the world's abundance for the common good, a sufficiency to be shared, not hoarded.

As God in Genesis 1 is no imperious warrior, so human beings are not conquerors of creation. The language of dominion lacks all sense of exploitation (1:26, 28). The hoarding of resources is implicitly forbidden in the account: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees are granted to animals and humans alike (1:30). Absent is any hint of the savage competition for resources. God's gift of sustenance is one of abundance, not scarcity, to be shared, not hoarded.

Each layman must be his own apologist, responsible for his stewardship of the Gospel in his daily life and work.

The instructive admonitions, "give an account of thy stewardship,"—"occupy till I come;" are forgotten. Thus the generous and wakeful spirit of Christian Benevolence, seeking and finding every where occasions for its exercise, is exploded, and a system of decent selfishness is avowedly established in its stead; a system scarcely more to be abjured for its impiety, than to be abhorred for its cold insensibility to the opportunities of diffusing happiness.

We need the kind of leadership exemplified by President Kennedy to just do it! But we must do it as good stewards, aggressively exerting control over the moon. We can best do this by going there.

A man does not sell the earth the people walk on." That

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

When we Indians kill meat, we eat it all up.... When we build houses, we make little holes. When we burn grass for grasshoppers, we don't ruin things. We shake down acorns and pinenuts. We don't chop down the trees.

This land does not belong to you. It belongs to that ancient shepherd whose ghost is standing next to you, though you refuse to see it. Since you do not know how to share, take your vineyards and your bridges, your paved roads and your railway tracks, your cities and your gardens and give back what remains to its rightful owners".