Quotes about Stewardship

Have you ever thought that the only ugly things in this Cove are man's fault, while the beautiful things are God's work? Look at those mountains.

How can we come to church and sing our hymns and pray our prayers and spit on the very creation God made above every other living thing on this earth?

'Economics for Everybody' begins with understanding God's principles for organizing His creation and what that means for us as creatures and stewards.

Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.

If a man owns land, the land owns him.

To waste and destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them.

Leave it as it is. You cannot improve on it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it.

What I have given, I can take away and restore when it pleases Me. What I give remains Mine, and thus when I take it away I take nothing that is yours, for every good gift and every perfect gift is Mine.

Shepherds of the flock should . . . seek the good of their flock, and every ruler the good of the people subject to him.

The rich do not act improperly if they before others take possession of property that was in the beginning common and share the property with others. But the rich sin if they indiscriminately prevent others from using the property.

When it comes to the income of the ministry, I have no problem talking about it or what happens to the money.

Christians ought to have a different approach to business. As believers, we should view work as both service and a form of worship.