Quotes about Stewardship
If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
— Wendell Berry
Nature holds an immense uncollected debt over every man's head.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.
— Thomas Jefferson
We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work and accordingly labour faithfully for him not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can.
— David Brainerd
I place no value on anything I have or may possess, except in relation to the kingdom of God. If anything will advance the interests of the kingdom, it shall be given away or kept, only as by giving or keeping it I shall most promote the glory of Him to whom I owe all my hopes in time or eternity.
— David Livingstone
Grace does not cancel out our responsibility or accountability for the things God has given us to do.
— Mike Bickle
Each of us will eventually give away all our earthly possessions. How we choose to do so, however, is a reflection of our commitment to the kingdom of God.
— Charles Stanley
Are you building up your house, or are you tearing it down? Your 'house' is the sphere of relationships that God has placed you in.
— Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.
— Catherine of Siena
Possessions are not God's blessing and goodness, but the opportunities of service which he entrusts to us.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
God gave them [the discoveries] to me; how can I sell them to someone else?
— George Washington Carver
The first requisite of stewardship is to give ourselves to God. Thus, a logical recognition of God's absolute ownership should follow.
— Stephen F Olford