Quotes about Stewardship

God] hangs on to his fallen original creation and salvages it. He refuses to abandon the work of his hands—in fact, he sacrifices his own Son to save his original project. Humankind, which has botched its original mandate and the whole creation along with it, is given another chance in Christ; we are reinstated as God's managers on earth. The original good creation is to be restored."[2]

There is a powerful relationship between our true spiritual condition and our attitude and actions concerning money and possessions.

I shovel out the money, and God shovels it back—but God has a bigger shovel." — R. G. LeTourneau

If Christ is not Lord over our money and possessions, he is not our Lord.

On being in a position of leadership) Even if it's your dog, you've got authority over somebody. Start treating him better.

We only have one life to give, and we should be careful who and what we give it to.

God doesn't want us to be gamblers. He wants us to be investors.

It is a great thing when I discover I am no longer my own but His. If the ten shillings in my pocket belong to me, then I have full authority over them. But if they belong to another who has committed them to me in trust, then I cannot buy what I please with them, and I dare not lose them. Real Christian life begins with knowing this.

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

The ecological teaching of the Bible is simply inescapable: God made the world because He wanted it made. He thinks the world is good, and He loves it. It is His world; He has never relinquished title to it. And He has never revoked the conditions, bearing on His gift to us of the use of it, that oblige us to take excellent care of it.

Good farmers, who take seriously their duties as stewards of Creation and of their land's inheritors, contribute to the welfare of society in more ways than society usually acknowledges, or even knows. These farmers produce valuable goods, of course; but they also conserve soil, they conserve water, they conserve wildlife, they conserve open space, they conserve scenery.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.