Quotes About Stewardship

The reason we've made a mess of the planet is that being its stewards required us to imagine not our own futures but those four or five generations removed.

if you want to know how God feels about money, look at whom she gives it to.

If you want to know how God feels about money, look at who she gives it to

Humanity is meant to live as part of creation, not as the owner of it or to make war against it.

Do not let your life, ministry or organization go faster than your resources.

The rhythm of life is give and take. It is necessary to put things back into the system. To not do that is to foul your own nest - to use up all the natural resources greedily.

Wealth is a responsibility and the sharing of it a way of life.

At the end of your life on earth you will be evaluated and rewarded according to how well you handled what God entrusted to you.

The most important part is to take on the challenge of protecting the ocean as if your life depends on it - because it does.

The damages of our present agriculture all come from the determination to use the life of the soil as if it were an extractable resource like coal.

You can't live a healthy life on a sick planet.

I had spared the stag's life. The power of that life belonged to me as surely as it belonged to the man who had taken it.

No generation has a free hold on this earth. All we have is a life tenancy-with a full repairing lease.

the most ethical option is not to stop hunting animals, but to re-enter the food chain and replace the predators that we displaced. To be good stewards of such ecosystems, we have an ethical obligation to become surrogate predators.

From this perspective, the earth would no longer be simply a marketplace, its lands and resources divided among competing human groups.

There is too little public recognition of how much we all depend upon farmers as stewards of our soil, water and wildlife resources.

National parks and reserves are an integral aspect of intelligent use of natural resources. It is the course of wisdom to set aside an ample portion of our natural resources as national parks and reserves, thus ensuring that future generations may know the majesty of the earth as we know it today.

These days, we listen to our children, not they to us. Given what we've done to the planet, perhaps they have a point. Tasked with passing the baton, like hundreds of generations before us, my team has fumbled the handoff.

The principle is that the kingdom has been entrusted to the people of God and they should be faithful stewards who expect to be held accountable.

The ultimate question for a responsible man to ask is not how he is to extricate himself heroically from the affair, but how the coming generation is going to live.

Although much of what is written about finance would give a different impression, you are not providing funds for business investment by holding a company's shares, directly or indirectly. As I have explained, companies large enough to be quoted on a stock exchange are, overwhelmingly, self-financing. The relationship between the long-term investor and Exxon Mobil is one of stewardship.

The sense of responsibility in the financial community for the community as a whole is not small. It is nearly nil.

I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest.

Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.