Quotes About Stewardship

This world belongs to our future generations, so we have to take utmost care of it.

Do you know why God wants you rich? So you can do more. The wealthier you become, the more responsible you are to God.

I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected.

I not only think that we will tamper with Mother Nature, I think Mother wants us to.

I've always said I want a farmer, not a hunter. Hunters go for the kill and they move on. A farmer nurtures; he watches things grow.

We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We did not ask for this role, but we cannot abjure it. We may not be suited to it, but here we are.

The first job of a leader—at work or at home—is to inspire trust. It's to bring out the best in people by entrusting them with meaningful stewardships, and to create an environment in which high-trust interaction inspires creativity and possibility.

Kings come and go, but sovereignty remains. Kings are men, and men may fall to vice and corruption, but sovereignty is pure and undefiled at its source.

son of the steward." As the nicknames make clear, we don't like to spend a lot of money. But we don't economize just for the sake of skimping.

My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the pest.

We don't own the planet Earth, we belong to it. And we must share it with our wildlife.

Now more than ever we are all becoming more aware about the need to conserve our precious living heritage.

Be considerate with the Earth. More people have to use it when you're gone."

The world is impermanent--the eruption of Mount St. Helens showed how quickly and drastically things can change. Yet we still can be good stewards of the things we love.

I am a governor who left office with a smaller general fund budget than when we started.

Plants and mushrooms have intelligence, and they want us to take care of the environment, and so they communicate that to us in a way we can understand." Why us? "We humans are the most populous bipedal organisms walking around, so some plants and fungi are especially interested in enlisting our support. I think they have a consciousness and are constantly trying to direct our evolution by speaking out to us biochemically. We just need to be better listeners.

The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world

To sum it up: Discipline + Self-denial = Cents for the Kingdom!

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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. Calvin Coolidge

Look, tithing doesn't make you broke. Living above your means (and spending your tithe) makes you broke.

Joseph relied on his faith to save even when times were plentiful. Year after year he stored up grain. He never wavered from his task, even when the grain was overflowing.

Man was not the planet's master, merely its administrator, and therefore eventually responsible for his administration.

Small yet strong in the love of God, like Saint Francis of Assisi, all of us, as Christians, are called to watch over and protect the fragile world in which we live, and all its peoples.