Quotes about Stewardship
I added up all the money the church paid me for the first 25 years and gave it all back.
— Rick Warren
Be Thou praised, my Lord, of our Sister Mother Earth, which sustains and hath us in rule, and produces divers fruits with coloured flowers and herbs.
— St. Francis Of Assisi
It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.
— Albert Einstein
Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?
— Jane Goodall
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
— Wendell Berry
Take good care of creation. St. Francis wanted that. People occasionally forgive, but nature never does. If we don't take care of the environment, there's no way of getting around it.
— Pope Francis
Christians, in particular, realize that their responsibility within creation and their duty towards nature and the Creator are an essential part of their faith.
— Pope John Paul II
If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
— Wendell Berry
Man has slapped nature in the face. If you slap it, it will slap you back.
— Pope Francis
Nature holds an immense uncollected debt over every man's head.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.
— Thomas Jefferson
We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work and accordingly labour faithfully for him not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can.
— David Brainerd