Quotes About Stewardship

Treat all things as if they were loaned to you without any ownership - whether body or soul, sense or strength, external goods or honors, house or hall . . . everything.

Over and over again, we must stress that a healthy ecology is the basis for a healthy economy.

The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.

Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.

I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions -- those who wantonly damage it and those who do not. But the Earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.

What she showed me was, Yes, I am Grandmother as she is; there is no separation, really, between us. And that, on this planet, Grandmother Earth, there is no higher authority. That our inseparability is why the planet will be steered to safety by Grandmother/Grandmothers or it will not be steered to safety at all.

And what will you do with your twilight years? "As it happens,the great King has offered me a place in his guard." "The stench of honor! You'll accept?

You're not being responsible with what God gave you if you're hanging out with time wasters who have no goals and no dreams.

A farm regulated to production of raw commodities is not a farm at all. It is a temporary blip until the land is used up, the water polluted, the neighbors nauseated, and the air unbreathable. The farmhouse, the concrete, the machinery, and outbuildings become relics of a bygone vibrancy when another family farm moves to the city financial centers for relief.

That ought to be our stewardship mandate, to create Edens wherever we go. That's why humans are here. Our responsibility is to extend forgiveness into the landscape.

The life of every river sings its own song, but in most the song is long marred by the discords of misuse.

Learn how to regulate one's own house well.

Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known.

To protect this earth is to protect the very spirit of life

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity.

Our emphasis on saving makes sense when we consider that most of us think of our options as either saving or spending. But the biblical witness and Christian tradition suggest that there's another option: sharing.

Nothing is ever really yours until you share it.

We don't own mission, and it is not ours to define.

We should pass on to future generations the opportunity to enjoy these places and not have them transformed into ordinary places

A Christian, who realizes he has been made in the image of the Creator God and is therefore meant to be creative on a finite level, should certainly have more understanding of his responsibility to treat God's creation with sensitivity, and should develop his talents to do something to beautify his little spot on the earth's surface.

Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.

It is not enough to understand the natural world. The point is to defend and preserve it.