Quotes About Stewardship

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything... for 'tis the only thing in this world that lasts...'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for - worth dying for.

Je me sentais responsable de la beauté du monde.

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.

any right is always coupled with a responsibility

As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace. 1 PETER 4:10

Christians should desire to live their lives as good and godly stewards like Jesus, investing their time, talent, and treasure for God's purposes.

Randy Alcorn describes his own learning about being a steward: If God was the owner, I was the manager. I needed to adopt a steward's mentality toward the assets. He had entrusted—not given— to me. A steward manages assets for the owner's benefit. The steward carries no sense of entitlement to the assets he manages. It's his job to find out what the owner wants done with his assets, then carry out his will.

Three facts distinguish a steward: 1) A steward gladly acknowledges that he or she belongs to the Lord.

We have to learn to do more ministry with less money.

Avoid participating in any religious community where the clear truth-claims of Scripture are ignored while contemplative and mystical practices are favored simply for their spiritual experience. Be careful of any church or ministry wherein acts of mercy and environmental stewardship are devoid of a theology of the cross and wind up being little more than the worship of created people and things. And be careful not to worship a good thing as a god thing for that is a bad thing.

If you don't take care of your house, let support beams rot, the roof fall in, and the very foundation crack and crumble, you can't blame some storm that comes along for knocking the whole thing down. You've got to take responsibility for your part in it all.

it's not what you earn that matters, it's what you keep.

And that's about the finest ambition by which a man can be moved," said the Duke. "The man who can manage the purse-strings of this country can manage anything.

the greater the number of owners, the less the respect for common property. People are much more careful of their personal possessions than of those owned communally; they exercise care over common property only in so far as they are personally affected.

All of life is maintenance, for heaven's sake. That's the pleasant part. Taking care of things.

For it was their world, not Man's. However he might shape it for his own purposes, it would be his duty always to safeguard the interests of its rightful owners. No one could tell what part they might have to play in the history of the universe. And when, as was one day inevitable, Man himself came to the notice of yet higher races, he might well be judged by his behaviour here on Mars.

we do not inherit the world from our parents; we borrow it from our children.

By creating a park, and then providing jobs and salaries to local communities, we give economic incentives to people to protect what all of us surely want to preserve.

how humankind will ever be able to answer to God for the wounds inflicted on His world.

In my opinion, what the country needs, first and foremost, is a good, sound, business-like conduct of its affairs. What we need is—a business administration !

Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.

The future rests with the ones who tend the future.

Plant more flowers than you pick

Your life is your own responsibility.