Quotes About Stewardship

Be in the world like a maid servant in a rich man's house. The maid servant deals with all the objects and things always knowing that nothing belongs to her and that this is not her true home.

For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared.

After all,we are partners in this land,co-signers of a covenant.At my touch the wildbraid of creationtrembles.

Pero siempre ol vida que "tener" no significa "mantener", ni "poseer" "conservar".

God does not hold our environment accountable for our behavior

God is not against money, He is against the money been used outside His purpose

The level of our responsibility in things of God determines our level of prosperity

If we can't love our one and only home, what can we love? If we're unwilling to defend what we love, then what are we?

General management is more than the stewardship of individual functions. Its core is strategy: defining and communicating the company's unique position, making trade-offs, and forging fit among activities.

The Glory was entrusted to you, you weren't given permission to pass it on as you see fit.

People didn't love all of this when they still had it. If you love something, you do what's best for it. You don't destroy it.

we need, and now more than ever, to learn how to use nature without damaging it.

In wildness is the preservation of the world," Thoreau once wrote; a century later

Consider all we've done on this plant's behalf: allotted it more than 27 million acres of new habitat, assigned 25 million humans to carefully tend it, and bid up its price until it became one of the most precious crops on earth.

I'm excited and encouraged to see people getting involved with their public lands and forests. We really need the public's help to repair these heavily used recreation sites.

In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep.

Our most modern sin is that we do not love the world enough. We have exiled the holy from this realm so we can turn its mountains into money.

Love your fellow man, and take care of each other and your environment.

We need to move beyond the idea of 'environment' and fall back in love with Mother Earth.

The Forest Service is truly an extraordinary institution. A lot of people, seeing that word forest in the title, assume it has something to do with looking after trees. In fact, no—though that was the original plan.

Britain still has the most reliably beautiful countryside of anywhere in the world. I would hate to be part of the generation that allowed that to be lost.

To call human beings 'stewards' of this planet is like accepting that Jack the Ripper is the right man to start a Home for the Care and Protection of Fallen Women.

Most leaders assume that everybody who comes to church knows God's mind on financial matters. But the truth is that many people are absolutely clueless regarding the basic principles of Christian financial management. Leaders and teachers need to educate their congregations before they can expect them to honor God with their money and eventually get excited about resourcing the church.

Our kind has surely accomplished brilliant feats during our short time on this earth as a species. But before we poison, pollute, degrade and murder every other creature on the planet, we must learn to limit our numbers and our greed. This is the lesson that humans so desperately need to learn at this turning point in human history.