Quotes about Stewardship
Money is like manure. If you let it pile up, it just smells. But if you spread it around, you can encourage things to grow.
— John Maxwell
Remind yourself that leadership is a privilege and responsibility more than anything else.
— John Maxwell
Here is our first rule: Any life you create is yours, and must be cared for. No matter how humble or small, it is still yours, and you must answer for it.
— John C. Wright
We need to realize, my friend, that you and I are creatures, creatures of God, and as creatures of God, we owe Him something.
— J. Vernon McGee
I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Our stewardship of the Earth is brief. We owe it to those who follow to keep that in perspective, to be responsible passengers along the way.
— George H. W. Bush
If we do not serve what coheres and endures, we serve what disintegrates and destroys.
— Wendell Berry
People who minister worldwide to protect and conserve the environment are of no lower status than those who minister to plant churches.
— Leonard Sweet
The ecological crisis is a moral issue.
— Pope John Paul II
In losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of creation.
— Wendell Berry
Something happens when you feel ownership. You no longer act like a spectator or consumer, because you're an owner. Faith is at its best when it's that way too. It's best lived when it's owned.
— Bob Goff
Have you ever thought that the only ugly things in this Cove are man's fault, while the beautiful things are God's work? Look at those mountains.
— Catherine Marshall