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Quotes About Stewardship

Ce que Dieu te prête, tu dois savoir le rendre. Aucune chose, sur terre, ne t'appartient vraiment.
~ Yasmina Khadra
Jesus paid a high price for your peace. Don't give it away.
~ David McGee
A company has a responsibility beyond making a profit for stockholders; it has a responsibility to recognize the dignity of its employees as human beings, to the well-being of its customers, and to the community at large.
~ David Packard
For better or worse, humans or our descendants will be responsible for life on Earth for the indefinite future. Despite the initially daunting technical challenges, the biggest obstacle to compassionate stewardship of the world's free-living nonhuman animal population is not technical or even financial but ideological.
~ David Pearce
It is absolutely imperative that we protect, preserve and pass on this genetic heritage for man and every other living thing in as good a condition as we received it.
~ David R. Brower
It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.
~ David R. Brower
With rare exceptions, the fields of all countries have been made to bear their crops without the least reference to the interests of future generations.
~ David R. Montgomery
At the judgement seat of Christ more than one faith-confessing charismatic will have to sputter out a reason why he chose to claim classy cars instead of countries.
~ David Shibley
For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority.
~ David Suzuki
It would be," Stoker said quietly. "John could never keep two shillings together in his pocket. His wife wouldn't like that." The mention of the
~ Deanna Raybourn
You take care of the people you love, but it's true, too, that you take care of the things you own.
~ Deb Caletti
If you follow, practice and live 'Ownership', you have arrived in Life
~ Harrish Sairaman
How many of us dare not use our time or money or talents as we would, because we realise they are the Lord's, not ours?
~ Watchman Nee
A timber fit for pillarsshould not be misused for chopsticks
~ Chinese Maxims
The finest gift you can give to any fisherman is to put a good fish back, and who knows if the fish that you caught isn't someone else's gift to you?
~ Lee Wulff
If the earth does grow inhospitable toward human presence, it is primarily because we have lost our sense of courtesy toward the earth and its inhabitants.
~ Thomas Berry
To Squanto, as to all Native Americans, the land did not belong to the people, people belonged to the land.
~ Jean Craighead George
The earth we leave is beautiful and rich; it gave us all we needed for all the generations we have lived.
~ Jean M. Auel
The earth we leave is beautiful and rich; it gave us all we needed for all the generations we have lived. How will you leave it when it is your turn? What can you do?
~ Jean M. Auel
The Lord has given you two hands and a brain and a big world to use them in. Use them well, and you will be provided for; use them ill, and you will want
~ Jean Webster
God also set man to be the keeper of creation (Gen 2:15),49 to protect it and keep it safe.
~ Jean-Claude Larchet
You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man
~ Jean-Jaques Rousseau
In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no respect.
~ Jeff Goodell