Quotes about Stewardship
Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist.
— Alistair Begg
It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.
— Ambrose of Milan
If you let people own their land, they take care of it. That's why privately owned land is always taken care of, and the parks look like cesspools. Nobody takes care of what everybody owns.
— Grover Norquist
Work allows us to take care of God's creation and bring glory to Him as His stewards.
— Eric Metaxas
How you manage your money affects how much God can bless your life.
— Rick Warren
Servants think like stewards, not owners.
— Rick Warren
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
6 The first job God gave humans was to manage and take
— Rick Warren
God says there is a direct relationship between how I use my money and the quality of my spiritual life. How I manage my money ("worldly wealth") determines how much God can trust me with spiritual blessings ("true riches").
— Rick Warren
From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.
— Rick Warren
read in the Psalms, The earth is the LORD's and everything in it.
— Rob Bell
Conservation is ethically sound. It is rooted in our love of the land, our respect for the rights of others, our devotion to the rule of law.
— Lyndon B. Johnson