Stewardship Quotes

The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.

Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.

I owe it all to little chocolate donuts.

Nature is cruel but we don't have to be

We must strive to become good ancestors.

Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?

What you give ought to be in direct relationship to what you've received. If you have been blessed with a great deal, then you have a lot of giving to do.

Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about the place where they live.

The one principle that surrounds everything else is that of stewardship; that we are the managers of everything that God has given us

Remember this-you can't serve God and Money, but you can serve God with money.

Show me a religion that doesn't care about compassion. Show me a religion that doesn't care about stewardship of the environment. Show me a religion that doesn't care about hospitality.

I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

If you do not give the tenth part to God, he will take the nine parts.

You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at.

The worst sin against stewardship is to waste your life.

It is up to us as lawmakers to provide the resources and streamlined processes that will enable our federal forest managers to become the best possible steward of our lands.

In our good works nothing is our own.

The tithe is a wonderful goal but a terrible place to stop.

... the way to thrive is to help others thrive; the way to flourish is to help others flourish; the way to fulfill yourself is to spend yourself.

I owe everything to the army.

Squash has been my life and I owe a lot to the sport.

... let everyone regard himself as the steward of God in all things which he possesses.

Nobody's going to force me to do something against my will. What do I owe anybody that I should submit my will to them?

We are not cistern made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing.

Leadership is stewardship, it's temporary and you're accountable!

Christ is the clue to all that is.

Don't tell me you're trusting God until you trust Him with your pocketbook.

I am large, I contain multitudes

Dearest Lord, teach me to be generous; teach me to serve you as you deserve; to give and not to count the cost.

The surplus wealth we have gained to some extent at least belongs to our fellow beings; we are only the temporary custodians of our fortunes, and let us be careful that no just complaint can be made against our stewardship.

Give naught, get same. Give much, get same.

I owe nothing to Women's Lib.

Our love for God is tested by the question of whether we seek Him or His gifts.

We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.

Even if I give the whole of my worth to Him, He will find a way to give back to me much more than I gave.

There is a price to be paid for fabricating around us a society which is as artifical and as mechanized as our own, and this is that we can exist in it only on condition that we adapt ourselves to it. This is our punishment.

In the time one is given, the steward must make the most of the talents one is given by the Lord.

I am supposed to owe the government something like $100 million. I couldn't squeeze out a dime.

We owe it to each other - and to our children and grandchildren - to leave our planet in a better state than when we found it.

We do not have any respect, let alone reverence, for the world of nature because we do not have any respect, let alone reverence, for ourselves. It is because we cripple and mutilate ourselves that we cripple and mutilate everything else as well. Our contemporary crisis is really our own depravity writ large.

The only right stewardship is that which is tested by the rule of love.

Many LBOs are man-made disasters. When the price paid is excessive, the equity portion of an LBO is really an out-of-the-money call option. Many fiduciaries placed large amounts of the capital under their stewardship into such options in 2006 and 2007.

Leadership is neither showmanship nor dictatorship. Leadership is a stewardship and a partnership.

I was happier when I was doing a mechanic's job.

There can be no stewardship without stewards.

Learning isn't a luxury; it's a stewardship issue

Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.

Giving is true loving.

The gift derives its value from the rank of the giver.

We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we made.