Quotes About Stewardship

The key to nature's therapy is feeling like a tiny part of it, not a master over it. There's amazing pride in seeing a bee land on a flower you planted - but that's not your act of creation, it's your act of joining in.

It is a wonderful honor to receive the Audubon Medal from the National Audubon Society, which for more than a century has fought tirelessly to protect and preserve our natural resources and environment for future generations.

I will work tirelessly to ensure our public lands are managed and preserved in a way that benefits everyone for generations to come.

Each generation has its own rendezvous with the land, for despite our fee titles and claims of ownership, we are all brief tenants on this planet. By choice, or by default, we will carve out a land legacy for our heirs.

All these other creatures have an equal right to exist here. We have no prior rights to the Earth than anybody else, and if they're here, let's give them a chance to survive.

We depend on nature to survive... it is our responsibility also to take care of our home, planet Earth.

We must respect the interior laws of creation, of this Earth, to learn these laws and obey them if we want to survive.

I'm having my portrait painted, for example, so that will be then put up at Longleat and hopefully stay here for a long time. You become part of a long line that goes back and will hopefully continue. That's what you want. You just want the house to survive, and you do everything you can to maintain it, look after it and support.

Today, there's no excuse for not learning how to get our financial houses in order. Some of us close our eyes, take a deep breath and say a prayer when it comes to managing our finances.

This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.

Man has done his best to ruin the world he lives in.

Life is a lease and God is the landlord.

One thing that has to cease among Christians is the appeal to an audience to give with the promise of getting something.

Nobody ever washes a rental car.

You have two jobs in funding your ministry. God has three—and His are harder! Yours are the following: Invite friends, family, and acquaintances to join your support team. Thank, inform, and minister to your giving partners. God's three jobs are more complicated: Calling you to ministry. Surrounding you with potential partners. Leading them to make stewardship decisions

My prayer is simple yet necessary: grant me greater stewardship of my words, Jesus. As you speak to me, please speak through me.

Teach us how to be stewards of technology, not slaves to technology. Teach us how to be creative, not cute; faithful, not manipulative; simple, not spectacular. Reel us back in anytime we move away from the "sincere and pure devotion to Christ" (2 Cor. 11:3). And let us never forget that you are not seeking "great worship" but true worshipers—those who worship you "in the Spirit and in truth" (John 4:23 NIV).

The end of all things is at hand; therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers. Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. Show hospitality to one another without grumbling. As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace. (1 Pet. 4:7–10)

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

Just in the nick of time they realized that it was their own habitat they were wrecking -- that they weren't merely visitors.

Her Majesty said she hoped I would have time for my horses - I own two and have shares in four.

If a person kills a tree before its time, it is like having murdered a soul.-Rabbi Nachman

Since all wealth ultimately comes from God, His people ought to acknowledge His primacy by offering Him the best of their wealth, time, and abilities.

God made the Sea of Galilee and its surroundings as they are. Is it the province of Mr. Grimes to improve upon the work?