Quotes About Stewardship

but since He gave it them for their benefit and the greatest conveniences of life they were capable to draw form it, it cannot be supposed He meant it should always remain common and uncultivated. He gave it to the use of the industrious and rational (and labour was to be his title to it)...

God gave the World to Men in Common; But since he gave it them for their benefit, and the greatest Conveniencies of life they were capable to draw from it, it cannot be supposed he meant it should always remain common and uncultivated. He gave it to the use of the industrious and Rational, (and Labour was to be his Title to it;) not to the fancy or covetousness of the quarrelsome and contentious.

that every man should have as much as he could make use of, would hold still in the world, without straitening any body;

God gave the world to men in common; but since he gave it them for their benefit, and the greatest conveniencies of life they were capable to draw from it, it cannot be supposed he meant it should always remain common and uncultivated.

Biblical stewardship produces a spiritual fragrance in the people who live it.

Al fin y al cabo, la mayordomía es llevar una vida en la que los dos mandamientos mayores, el amor a Dios y el amor a nuestro prójimo, son la motivación y la fuerza motriz de todo lo que hacemos.

The Bible speaks negatively of all debt.

This tire, represents stewardship. We are all stewards who make contact with the world in every kind of situation.

Christians have not always been good stewards of the message of salvation in Christ. Religious persecution, injustice, and wars have all been committed in His name. We should not partake in that spirit. When our responsibility is rightly understood, we will practice it now, and we will spend eternity studying this mystery of love.

This was his wood, his mountain.

Anything we have, we are only borrowing. Anything. Any time.

Look,' Taryn said. 'I'm going to try this one more time. It's like that thing in Star Trek. The Starfleet regulation that says the doctor can relieve the captain of his duties. The writers probably got it from the real-life navy. Anyway, human beings are the captain. The doctor is the trees and the grasses and the marshes, and the beasts of the field and birds of the air. We humans were declared unfit for command.

Time and time again, people have demonstrated that they care about what Rachel Carson called "the problem of sharing our earth with other creatures," and that they're willing to make sacrifices on those creatures' behalf.

Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.

Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years lease of a garden and he will turn it into a desert.

This time, instead of moving oceans and healing planets, let's get our bills in order and pay down the debt so we control our own future.

Take care of the earth and she will take care of you.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Leave the world in better conditions in wich you found it.

Leave the world in better conditions in wich you found it." [Misattributed to Baden Powell the English mathematician and Church of England priest. Properly attributed Sir Robert Baden-Powell founder of the Scout Movement]

It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.

If it's true, as I believe it is, that the planet is alive, then it's probably also true that we may reach a point at which she will begin to defend herself against us.

When you screw with somebody's sense of ownership of something, that's when they react.

Humanity evolves when we realise that animals have the same rights to the Earth as we do.