Quotes about Stewardship

Any 'Christians' who take for themselves any more than the plain necessaries of life, live in an open habitual denial of the Lord. They have gained riches and hell-fire.

Hunting forces a person to endure, to master themselves, even to truly get to know the wild environment. Actually, along the way, hunting and fishing makes you fall in love with the natural world. This is why hunters so often give back by contributing to conservation.

You can't just let nature run wild.

Our present ecological crisis, the biggest single practical threat to our human existence in the middle to long term, has, religious people would say, a great deal to do with our failure to think of the world as existing in relation to the mystery of God, not just as a huge warehouse of stuff to be used for our convenience.

I think there has to be the sense that once you have climbed the ladder of success, that you don't push it away from the building.

What she showed me was, Yes, I am Grandmother as she is; there is no separation, really, between us. And that, on this planet, Grandmother Earth, there is no higher authority. That our inseparability is why the planet will be steered to safety by Grandmother/Grandmothers or it will not be steered to safety at all.

You're not being responsible with what God gave you if you're hanging out with time wasters who have no goals and no dreams.

Nothing is ever really yours until you share it.

We don't own mission, and it is not ours to define.

Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees.

For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.

For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?