Quotes about Stewardship

We are not responsible for our endowments or natural abilities, but we are responsible for the strategic use of time.

A sense of responsibility is the clearest indication of mature leadership.

We learn about tithing by paying it.

Learning isn't a luxury; it's a stewardship issue.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Giving is above what we owe God, and that is our tithes.

Everyone archetypally is a parent to future generations.

As Parker Palmer said, "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 it the care it requires, we do it not only for ourselves, but for the many others whose lives we touch.

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 it the care it requires, we do it not only for ourselves, but for the many others whose lives we touch.

This obedience to the voice of the Earth is more important for our future happiness... than the desires of the moment.

You are responsible for allocating your life.

Kuyper notes that the scholar is distinct in setting the scope of his stewardship on the mind itself. "Not merely to live," he writes, "but to know that you live and how you live, and how things around you live, and how all that hangs together and lives out of the one efficient cause that proceeds from God's power and wisdom.