Quotes about Resources

Iron is taken from the earth, and copper is smelted from ore.

Where there are no oxen, the manger is empty, but an abundant harvest comes through the strength of the ox.

Precious treasures and oil are in the dwelling of the wise, but a foolish man consumes them.

the lambs will provide you with clothing, and the goats with the price of a field.

“Go and see how many loaves you have,” He told them. And after checking, they said, “Five—and two fish.”

So he thought to himself, ‘What shall I do, since I have nowhere to store my crops?’

Which of you, wishing to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost to see if he has the resources to complete it?

cargo of gold, silver, precious stones, and pearls; of fine linen, purple, silk, and scarlet; of all kinds of citron wood and every article of ivory, precious wood, bronze, iron, and marble;

The Christian fact is very straightforward: To be a student is a calling. Your parents are setting up accounts to pay the bills, or you are scraping together your own resources and taking out loans, or a scholarship is making college possible.

Limited Resources + Increasing Passion = Exponential Innovation

We simply must balance our demand for energy with our rapidly shrinking resources. By acting now we can control our future instead of letting the future control us.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.