Quotes About Stewardship

Every person—including you—has been given a gift by God. Every gift is of immense value, no matter how it might compare to someone else's gifts. No one got a cheap or valueless gift from God. Every gift has the capacity to multiply (and is meant to do so). The gifts are essentially "on loan," meant to be stewarded.

If a man own land, the land owns him.

The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.

The Power that created you has created the world as well. If it can take care of you, it can similarily take care of the world also. If God has created the world, it is His business to look after it, not yours.

Abundance isn't God's provision for me to live in luxury. It's his provision for me to help others live. God entrusts me with his money not to build my kingdom on earth, but to build his kingdom in heaven.

Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to increase our standard of giving. (Look again at 2 Corinthians 8:14 and 9:11).

When I save, I lay something aside for future need. If I sense God's leading, I will give it away to meet greater needs. When I hoard, I'm unwilling to part with what I've saved to meet others' needs, because my possible future needs outweigh their actual present needs. I fail to love my neighbor as myself.

tithing isn't something I do to clear my conscience so I can do whatever I want with the 90 percent--it also belongs to God! I must seek his direction and permission for whatever I do with the full amount. I may discover that God has different ideas than I do.

Adam's role was to assert and enjoy his sovereignty under God, cultivating the garden into an expanding paradise and protecting it from all harm.

I want to see a capitalism that manages resources in a new, much more long-term manner.

I'm always very careful when I'm spending the club's money. I treat it like it's my own, and I always try to sign players for what I feel is the right price.

I grew up at the beach and I was always involved in beach clean-ups and caring for my environment.

Every day carries with it a responsibility.

In the case of the environment, there's no one to bail it out.

The President is the CEO of this business that we call America.

When you're the CEO, you take responsibility.

I was the one in charge of the kids growing up.

Let's put Coloradans in charge; let's put Westerners in charge of the West.

As mayor, I'm charged with a big-picture agenda.

As a chef, I feel that it is my duty to make the most of what the earth gives us.

People elect me to make sure the chief of police is the right chief of police. They elect me to make sure I have the right person running the airport.

I have even begun to think that I am caring for Argentina and Chile perhaps more than Argentines and Chileans. I feel like I'm sort of a de facto citizen, because I am looking after their national patrimony - which is the land - very carefully.

I think private ownership is generally superior to public because you care about the land more and it doesn't get trashed.

We have reached a new milestone as a human family. With seven billion of us now inhabiting our planet, it is time to ask some fundamental questions. How can we provide a dignified life for ourselves and future generations while preserving and protecting the global commons - the atmosphere, the oceans and the ecosystems that support us?