Quotes about Stewardship

Our culture says, "If you don't own it, you won't take care of it." But Christians live by a higher standard: "Because God owns it, I must take the best care of it that I can." The Bible says, "Those who are trusted with something valuable must show they are worthy of that trust.

We never really own anything during our brief stay on earth. God just loans the earth to us while we're here. It was God's property before you arrived, and God will loan it to someone else after you die. You just get to enjoy it for a while.

Life is a test and a trust, and the more God gives you, the more responsible he expects you to be.

Second, "What did you do with what I gave you?" What did you do with your life — all the gifts, talents, opportunities, energy, relationships, and resources God gave you? Did you spend them on yourself, or did you use them for the purposes God made you for?

Givers for God disarm the power of money.

And what does it mean to take care of power? Do you use it? Conserve it? Keep it out of the wrong hands?

Funds are low again, hallelujah! That means God trusts us and is willing to leave His reputation in our hands.

For everything that God desires to do in the earth, He enters into partnership with those to whom He has already given dominion.

The instructive admonitions, "give an account of thy stewardship,"—"occupy till I come;" are forgotten. Thus the generous and wakeful spirit of Christian Benevolence, seeking and finding every where occasions for its exercise, is exploded, and a system of decent selfishness is avowedly established in its stead; a system scarcely more to be abjured for its impiety, than to be abhorred for its cold insensibility to the opportunities of diffusing happiness.

How many of us dare not use our time or money or talents as we would, because we realise they are the Lord's, not ours?

If God gave it to me, we say it's mine. I can do what I want with it. No. The truth is that it is ours to thank Him for and ours to offer back to Him, ours to relinquish, ours to lose, ours to let go of - if we want to find our true selves, if we want real Life, if our hearts are set on glory.

You contribute much to your marriage by the wise, thrifty, diligent management and oversight of your part of the household budget.