Quotes about Stewardship

it is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.

As Sir Albert Howard, a British agrarian much admired by Berry, once put it in The Soil and Health: "The using up of fertility is a transfer of past capital and of future possibilities to enrich a dishonest present: it is banditry pure and simple.

The price is high. God does not want partnership with us, but ownership of us.

Those who use tobacco, tea and coffee should lay these idols aside, and put their cost into the treasury of the Lord.

The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.

God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work.

Virtuous theologians work as God's stewards building God's home (1 Cor. 3:9), not masters building their own little empires.

God gave men and women work to do in the Garden before the Fall.

If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess.

I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.

A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.