Quotes about Stewardship

Lethargy is evident in churches when the people have no sense of ownership.

God gave animals a lower rank, in the service of man.

Either we serve God and use money or we serve money and use God.

If we obey God it is going to cost other people more than it costs us, and that is where the sting comes in

Never consider whether or not you are of use—but always consider that "you are not your own" (1 Corinthians 6:19). You are His.

We should regard work not just as a platform for ministry—work is ministry, and we are stewards put in charge until Jesus comes back, a fifth column who infiltrate a world stained by sin, acting as salt that preserves the way of Christ and light that leads broken people out of darkness.

God owns our relationships—we do not—and that he has a higher purpose for them than we do.

Good parenting, which does what God intends it to do, begins with this radical and humbling recognition that our children don't actually belong to us. Rather, every child in every home, everywhere on the globe, belongs to the One who created him or her. Children are God's possession (see Ps. 127:3) for his purpose.

God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.”

Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit contains seed. They will be yours for food.

And to every beast of the earth and every bird of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth—everything that has the breath of life in it—I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.

Then the LORD God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.