Quotes About Stewardship

hesitancy, fear, or anger all that has been entrusted to us. God

Individual thinkers since the days of Ezekiel and Isaiah have asserted that the despoliation of land is not only inexpedient but wrong. Society, however, has not yet affirmed their belief.

Since my money is God's money, every spending decision I make is a spiritual decision.

The creatures that inhabit this earth-be they human beings or animals-are here to contribute, each in its own particular way, to the beauty and prosperity of the world.

Keeping your body in shape is a spiritual discipline. Its not just about losing a few pounds, wanting to live longer, or trying to look nicer.

All who are entrusted with spiritual and temporal talents must lay them out for the Lord and Master's advantage.

To misuse wealth is a great fault.

If you understand this basic concept, it becomes clear that every spending decision is a spiritual decision. Waste, for example, is not a squandering of our resources. It is a poor use of His.

It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.

We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters.

We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.

Everybody wanted to look after the world, but nobody wanted to give up anything they already had.

Stand unshod upon it for the ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator," Alan Paton wrote. "Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed."4

Money is an inanimate object. It can do good works or bad works depending on the hands that wield it, and the hearts governing those hands.

When you nurture Nature, Nature nurtures you.

If after your death a biographer or your children were to scan your canceled checks for insight into what kind of Christian you were, what conclusion would they come to? What would they reveal about your walk with Christ? Would those checks be tangible evidence of your spiritual trustworthiness?

The Bible sets no percentage goal in giving. Giving 10 percent of your gross income does not necessarily mean you have fulfilled the will of God. Ten

If people threw away their money as thoughtlessly as they throw away their time, we would think them insane. Yet time is infinitely more precious than money because money can't buy time.

we sometimes miss seeing that we can fill a bathtub not only by increasing the inflow rate, but also by decreasing the outflow rate.

God does not hold our environment accountable for our behavior; he holds us accountable. (p79)

Conservation," Pinchot famously wrote, "means the greatest good to the greatest number for the longest time.

If we could live for a million years, then maybe it would be worthwhile to create some problems. But our life is short. Now you see, we are guests here on this planet, visitors who have come for a short time, so we need to use our days wisely, to make our world a little better for everyone.

Our human vocation is to work and take care of the place where God has planted us, to serve him in our rule in creation as priests in his temple. Caring for the earth is not, in this light, a peripheral biblical theme; it is central to our identity as God's image bearers.

A right theology of wealth will equip us to handle tools rightly, doing everything we do to the glory of God.