Quotes about Stewardship
By the divine providence [animals] are intended for man's use... Hence it is not wrong for man to make use of them, either by killing or in any other way whatsoever.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Jesus wants men who will rule well.
— Tony Evans
All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit-man.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or flower-pot.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Fine thoughts are wealth, for the right use of which Men are and ought to be accountable,-- If not to Thee, to those they influence.
— Philip James Bailey
I don't know if human activity is the only cause, but mostly, in great part, it is man who has slapped nature in the face, we have in a sense taken over nature.
— Pope Francis
We have, in a sense, lorded it over nature, over Sister Earth, over Mother Earth, i think man has gone too far.
— Pope Francis
To protect creation, to protect every man and every woman, to look upon them with tenderness and love is to open up a horizon of hope.
— Pope Francis
Nature has left nothing to the mercy of man.
— Henry David Thoreau
Money in the hands of one or two men is like a dungheap in a barnyard. So long as it lies in a mass, it does no good; but, if it is only spread out evenly on the land, everything will grow.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Having, First, gained all you can, and, Secondly saved all you can, Then give all you can.
— John Wesley
Not, how much of my money will I give to God, but, how much of God's money will I keep for myself?
— John Wesley