Quotes about Stewardship
A willingness to share our possessions with one another is a very important aspect of true biblical community.
— Jerry Bridges
It is God's planet - and he's taking care of it. And I don't believe that anything we do will raise or lower the temperature one point.
— Jerry Falwell
Everything we enjoy is to be treated as a trust that God has placed in our hands. The Bible says, "What do you have that God hasn't given you? And if all you have is from God, why boast as though you have accomplished something on your own?
— Rick Warren
But he refused. “Look,” he said to his master’s wife, “with me here, my master does not concern himself with anything in his house, and he has entrusted everything he owns to my care.
— Genesis 39:8
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
God owns our relationships—we do not—and that he has a higher purpose for them than we do.
— Paul David Tripp
The tithe is a wonderful goal but a terrible place to stop.
— Bill Hybels
When a church is spending more of its budget on media than shepherding, something is out of whack. We have gotten things twisted around.
— Charles Swindoll
A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD’s, and the fullness thereof, the world and all who dwell therein.
— Psalm 24:1
You cannot go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after. The physical qualities of a planet are written into its economic and political record.
— Frank Herbert
The prince must not take any of the inheritance of the people by evicting them from their property. He is to provide an inheritance for his sons from his own property, so that none of My people will be displaced from his property.’”
— Ezekiel 46:18
As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.
— Alice Walker