Quotes about Stewardship
I felt that one of the things God impressed on me was that I needed to start a nonprofit corporation, so that any money that came my way, whether it was an honorarium, a book sale or a gift, would go into a nonprofit ministry.
- Anne Graham Lotz
Self-care is never a selfish act - it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others. Anytime we can listen to true self and give the care it requires, we do it not only for ourselves, but for the many others whose lives we touch.
- Parker Palmer
Our challenge is to fill our hours, minutes, and actions from day to day with the appropriate amount of love for God's creation and creating, and then work to produce more of the good he has put in this world. This is every person's calling.
- Dallas Willard
The spirit and the manner of the Chief Shepherd should be the one adopted by the undershepherds.
- Dallas Willard
The idealization of poverty is one of the most dangerous illusions of Christians in the contemporary world. Stewardship—which requires possessions and includes giving—is the true spiritual discipline in relation to wealth.
- Dallas Willard
In our spiritual disintegration we may not be able to rule the earth, but we now have the power several times over to ruin it utterly.
- Dallas Willard
"On the first day of every week, each one of you is to put aside a sum of money in keeping with his income, saving it up, so that when I come, no collections will have to be made."
- 1 Corinthians 16:2
The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
There appears to be a law that when creatures have reached the level of consciousness, as men have, they must become conscious of the creation; they must learn how they fit into it and what its needs are and what it requires of them, or else pay a terrible penalty: the spirit of the creation will go out of them, and they will become destructive; the very earth will depart from them and go where they cannot follow.
- Wendell Berry
Our understandable wish to preserve the planet must somehow be reduced to the scale of our competence - that is to wish to preserve all of its humble house - holds and neighbourhoods.
- Wendell Berry
we must not speak or think of the land alone or of the people alone, but always and only of both together. If we want to save the land, we must save the people who belong to the land. If we want to save the people, we must save the land the people belong to.
- Wendell Berry
Any abundance, in any amount, is illusory if it does not safeguard its producers.
- Wendell Berry