Stewardship Quotes - Page 4

• I am convinced that the devil has caused the subject of giving to stir up resistance and resentment among God's people because he knows there are few ways of spiritual enrichment like the exercise of faithful stewardship.

  Stephen F Olford

  Spiritual, Exercise, People

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• You haven't lived until you've died in California

  Mort Sahl

  Funny, Inspiration, California

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• I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Fashion, Women, High Heels

  "Her Inspiration: Secrets to Help You Work Smart, Be Successful, and Have Fun". Book by Mina Parker, 2008.

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• The whole earth, then, belongs to Jesus. It belongs to him by right of creation, by right of redemption and by right of future inheritance - as Paul affirms in the magnificent cosmic declaration of Colossians 1:15-20. So wherever we go in his name, we are walking on his property. There is not an inch of the planet that does not belong to Christ. Mission then is an authorized activity carried out by tenants on the instructions of the owner of the property.

  Christopher J. H. Wright

  Jesus, Names, Doe

  Christopher J. H. Wright (2013). “The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible's Grand Narrative”, p.403, InterVarsity Press

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• Just as parents care for their children, you should bear in mind the whole universe.

  Dogen

  Children, Parent, Mind

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• The history of the universe and nature is being told to us by the stars, by the Earth, by the uprising and elevation of the mountains, by the animals, the woods and jungles, and by the rivers. Our task is to know how to listen and interpret the messages that are sent to us. The original peoples knew how to read every movement of the clouds, the meaning of the winds, and they knew when violent downpours were coming... We have forgotten all that.

  Leonardo Boff

  Stars, Animal, Rivers

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• All you have shall some day be given. Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors.

  Khalil Gibran

  Kindness, Humor, Helping Others

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• The constitution regulates our stewardship; the constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defense, to welfare, and to liberty. But there is a higher law than the constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes. The territory is a part, no inconsiderable part, of the common heritage of mankind, bestowed upon them by the Creator of the universe. We are his stewards, and must so discharge our trust as to secure in the highest attainable degree their happiness.

  William H. Seward

  Law, Justice, Liberty

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• The stewardship of influence. What have you done with influence?

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership, Done, Influence

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• Furthermore, consider that as one of its most important purposes, stewardship of creation should sustain nature's worshiping capacity. The more I reflect on Scriptures and the more I sense how God thrills to the adoration He receives from all that He has created, the more I realize He has given us the awesome responsibility of caring for His creation so that it can go on praising Him until the end of time.

  Tony Campolo

  Responsibility, Caring, Important

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• Things themselves do not remain, but their effects do. Therefore we should not be mean and calculating with what we have but give with a generous hand. Look at how much people give to players and dancers-why not give just as much to Christ?

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Mean, Player, Hands

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• ... there are not two realities, but only one reality, and that is the reality of God, which has become manifest in the Christ event/redemption and creation.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Reality, Two, Events

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• It is God's world still. It has been given to man not absolutely, but in trust, that man may work out in it the will of God; given-may we not say?-just as a father gives a child a corner of his great garden, and says, "There, that is yours; now cultivate it."

  Phillips Brooks

  Children, Father, Men

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: Visions and tasks, and other sermons”

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• We punish the body and strip the earth. And we do it in pursuit of a so-called holiness that smacks of the bogus, that denies the gifts of God, that makes us marauders on the earth.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Environmental, Body, Earth

  Joan D. Chittister (2004). “Called to Question: A Spiritual Memoir”, p.181, Sheed & Ward

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• We should use all our money for the Lord. This is, we should use all our money in a way that God would approve. In that sense, all of our money is to be given to the Lord. Stewardship is to be total, not partial.

  Wayne Mack

  Use, Way, Lord

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• The key word of the dedicated Christian should be 'give.' Charitable contributions speak eloquently of your unselfish Christian generosity.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Keys, Generosity

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• Give naught, get same. Give much, get same.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Generosity, Giving, Biblical Stewardship

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• If it is more blessed to give than to receive, then most of us are content to let the other fellow have the greater blessing.

  Shailer Mathews

  Blessed, Blessing, Generosity

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• The first requisite of stewardship is to give ourselves to God. Thus, a logical recognition of God's absolute ownership should follow.

  Stephen F Olford

  Wisdom, Giving, Firsts

  Stephen F. Olford (1972). “The Grace of Giving: A Biblical Study of Christian Stewardship”, p.12, Kregel Publications

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• If Jesus Christ were to sit down with us and ask for an accounting of our stewardship, I am not sure He would focus much on programs and statistics. What the Savior would want to know is the condition of our heart. He would want to know how we love and minister to those in our care, how we show our love to our spouse and family, and how we lighten their daily load. And the Savior would want to know how you and I grow closer to Him and to our Heavenly Father.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Jesus, Father, Heart

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• My take on tithing in America is that it's a middle-class way of robbing God. Tithing to the church and spending the rest on your family is not a Christian goal. It's a diversion. The real issue is: How shall we use God's trust fund-namely, all we have-for His glory? In a world with so much misery, what lifestyle should we call our people to live? What example are we setting?

  John Piper

  Christian, Real, Class

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• On the one hand, we are faced with the stewardship of this beautiful, subtle, incredibly delicate, fragile planet. On the other, we confront the destiny of our fellow man, our brothers. How can we say that we are followers of Christ if this dual responsibility does not seem to us the essence and heart of our religion?

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Beautiful, Brother, Heart

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• What is the chief end of giving? To glorify God and enjoy Him forever.

  Dennis Bakke

  Generosity, Giving, Forever

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• Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Generosity, Watches, Poverty

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• We have probed the earth, excavated it, burned it, ripped things from it, buried things in it.... That does not fit my definition of a good tenant. If we were here on a month-to-month basis, we would have been evicted long ago.

  Rose Bird

  Long Ago, Environmental, Earth

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