Quotes About Stewardship

In a very real way, ownership is the essence of leadership. When you are ridiculously in charge, then you own whatever happens in a company, school, et cetera.

Leadership starts with understanding responsibility, not ability. Leadership is a Stewardship, not a show.

It's a huge responsibility to have influence and to steward it in a way that leads to God-honoring leadership.

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.

Leadership is not a right-it is a responsibility.

We are not responsible for our endowments or natural abilities, but we are responsible for the strategic use of time.

A sense of responsibility is the clearest indication of mature leadership.

The more princes abstain from touching the wealth of their people, the greater will be their resources in the wants of the state.

(On being in a position of leadership) Even if it's your dog, you've got authority over somebody. Start treating him better.

That's what wrong. We've got people whose wallets have not been baptized.

We do a stewardship series every Sunday...at offering time.

If God gives you a platform where you're influencing others, you need to steward it well.

It's not just a song I sing with my hand raised but also with a billfold I've laid.

We learn about tithing by paying it.

Learning isn't a luxury; it's a stewardship issue

Sustainable leadership does no harm to and actively improves the surrounding environment.

Not to share our own wealth with the poor is theft from the poor and deprivation of their means of life; we do not possess our own wealth, but theirs.

What humans do over the next 50 years will determine the fate of all life on the planet.

Take care how you place your moccasins upon the Earth, step with care, for the faces of the future generations are looking up from the Earth waiting their turn for life.

There is no economic imperative that will condemn us to deplete our vital resource base, but neither is there an invisible hand that will prevent us from doing so.

So we spend, spend; amass, amass; indulge, indulge item by item, growing increasingly deaf to Jesus who described a simple life marked by generosity and underconsumption. Over time a new compartment develops for our spending habits, safely distanced from the other drawers like "discipleship" and "stewardship" (which has been helpfully reduced to tithing). And listen, I am first in line.

It started as a selfish act and has turned into a way of life. I can't stand to watch someone throw anything away that belongs in my green bin.

Stewardship is like that. I won't answer for the way another Christian mismanaged money. I won't be charged with another person's irresponsible consumption. Nor will I get credit for how another faith community shared or sacrificed luxuries for the marginalized. I'll answer for my choices.

We've invented a thousand shades of gray, devising a comfortable Christian existence we can all live with—super awesome, except the Bible doesn't support it. According to Scripture, no real disciple serves God while addicted to the dollar. There