Quotes About Stewardship

If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess.

We must make the masses understand that we have a responsibility to care for our animals and that when things get messed up, it's usually because human hands have caused it.

I don't believe in messing with mother-nature too much.

I have always ensured that law and order was maintained during my tenures as Chief Minister of the state.

We might summarize our present human situation by the simple statement: that in the 20th century, the glory of the human has become the desolation of the Earth and now the desolation of the Earth is becoming the destiny of the human. From here on, the primary judgment of all human institutions, professions, programs and activities will be determined by the extent to which they inhibit, ignore, or foster a mutually-enhancing human/Earth relationship.

Once you're in a high-income bracket, say $100,000 or $200,000 or more, it matters less how much more you make than what you do with what you already have.

I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.

I wish I was a despot that I might save the noble, the beautiful trees that are daily falling sacrifice to the cupidity of their owners, or the necessity of the poor. The unnecessary felling of a tree, perhaps the growth of centuries, seems to me a crime little short of murder.

A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character

The earth belongs always to the living generations.

When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.

I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living.

Le temps est un don des dieux, prêté à l'homme pour qu'il en tire parti, pour qu'il en tire un parti utile, ingénieur, au service du progrès de l'humanité.

In our present attitude the natural world remains a commodity to be bought and sold, not a sacred reality to be venerated.

the need to develop a mutually enhancing mode of human presence to the natural world will be a central concern in every phase of human activity.

Remember, she who keepeth the Books runneth the Business.

To love a person or a place is to take responsibility for its well-being.

How can we live as if we were in the wilderness, with that same respect and care for what is beautiful and beyond us?

To love a person or place is to take responsibility for its well-being.

We look about the world, by the light we have made, and realise it's all vulnerable, and all worth saving, and no one can do it but us.

Here again the concept of stewardship serves as a helpful guiding principle. Rights are not something you deserve and possess for your own benefit. Rather, they are privileges given to you by God, and he wants you to use them for his glory and to benefit others, especially by helping them know Christ. As a steward, it is also appropriate to consider your needs and personal responsibilities

One of the ways the devil has deceived us and controlled our finances is through debt.

believe and exercise my spiritual authority in the area of finances.

Christians do not take advantage of what belongs to them. Either they do not know how to take advantage of what belongs to them, or the do not know what belongs to them.