Quotes about Stewardship
Money never stays with me. It would burn me if it did. I throw it out of my hands as soon as possible, lest it should find its way into my heart.
- John Wesley
The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.
- Cicero
When asked what he would do if he knew the world would end tomorrow, Martin Luther said, "I would plant a tree."
- Martin Luther
I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the valley of the Euphrates.
- Theodore Roosevelt
In the planting of the seeds of most trees, the best gardeners do no more than follow Nature, though they may not know it.
- Henry David Thoreau
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust to be managed for the good of others.
- Andrew Carnegie
Scripture urges and warns us that whatever favors we may have obtained from the Lord, we have received them as a trust on condition that they should be applied to the common benefit of the church.
- John Calvin
God has blessed me with more than I need. I'm rich. I will not trust in riches but in Him who richly provides. Because I have more, I will give more and do more.
- Craig Groeschel
Don't tell me you're trusting God until you trust Him with your pocketbook.
- J. Vernon McGee
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
- Andrew Carnegie
The administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust.
- Cicero
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself as public property.
- Thomas Jefferson