Quotes about Stewardship
You cannot imagine a more certain rule or a more powerful suggestion than this, that all the blessings we enjoy are divine deposits which we have received on this condition that we distribute them to others.
— John Calvin
You were created to add to life on earth, not just take from it. God wants you to give something back.
— Rick Warren
The climate is a common good, belonging to all and meant for all.
— Pope Francis
For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics of its productivity but the good health of the land.
— Wendell Berry
Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.
— Isabel Allende
A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his mind precisely against what is wrong with us.
— Wendell Berry
When it comes to the care of our common home, we are living at a critical moment of history.
— Pope Francis
A man builds a fine house and now he has a master and a task for life is to furnish watch show it and keep it in repair the rest of his life.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
God is the ultimate steward. He even turns our tears into the seeds of a hope filled future.
— Bill Johnson
The environment is God's gift to everyone, and in our use of it we have a responsibility towards the poor, towards future generations, and towards humanity as a whole.
— Pope Benedict XVI
I ask you to ensure that humanity is served by wealth, and not ruled by it.
— Pope Francis
When God blesses you financially, don't raise your standard of living. Raise your standard of giving.
— Mark Batterson