Quotes about Stewardship
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
— Andrew Carnegie
Giving is above what we owe God, and that is our tithes.
— David Green
Everyone archetypally is a parent to future generations.
— Marianne Williamson
As Parker Palmer said, "Self-care is never a selfish act—it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others. Anytime we can listen to true self and give it the care it requires, we do it not only for ourselves, but for the many others whose lives we touch.
— Peter Scazzero
Self-care is never a selfish act—it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others. Anytime we can listen to true self and give it the care it requires, we do it not only for ourselves, but for the many others whose lives we touch.
— Peter Scazzero
This obedience to the voice of the Earth is more important for our future happiness... than the desires of the moment.
— Pope Benedict XVI
You are responsible for allocating your life.
— Joseph Maciariello
Kuyper notes that the scholar is distinct in setting the scope of his stewardship on the mind itself. "Not merely to live," he writes, "but to know that you live and how you live, and how things around you live, and how all that hangs together and lives out of the one efficient cause that proceeds from God's power and wisdom.
— Abraham Kuyper
remarked: [I]f our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusements , etc., is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving away too little. If our charities do not at all pinch or hamper us, I should say they are too small. There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditure excludes them.4
— Kent Hughes
Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you do with your resources in this life is your autobiography.
— Randy Alcorn
God doesn't make us rich so we can indulge ourselves and spoil our children, or so we can insulate ourselves form needing God's provision. God gives us abundant material blessing so that we can give it away, and give it generously.
— Randy Alcorn