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• No one has more time than you have. It is the discipline and stewardship of your time that is important. The management of time is the management of self; therefore if you manage time with God, he will begin to manage you.

  Jill Briscoe

  Self, Discipline, Important

  Jill Briscoe (1989). “Before You Say Amen”, Victor Books

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• To image the being of God towards the world, to be the priest of creation, is to behave towards the world in all its aspects, of work, and of play, in such a way that it may come to be what it was created to be, that which praises its maker by becoming perfect in its own way. In all this, there is room for both usefulness and beauty to take their due place, but differently according to differences of activity and object.

  Colin Gunton

  Play, Differences, Perfect

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• The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Christmas, Lying, Generosity

  Charles Dudley Warner (1871). “My Summer in a Garden”

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• ... the way to thrive is to help others thrive; the way to flourish is to help others flourish; the way to fulfill yourself is to spend yourself.

  Cornelius Plantinga

  Helping Others, Way, Thrive

  Cornelius Plantinga (2002). “Engaging God's World: A Christian Vision of Faith, Learning, and Living”, p.22, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Not to give to those in need what is to you superfluous is akin to fraud.

  Saint Augustine

  Giving, Needs, Those In Need

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• If we understand the dangers of materialism, it will help liberate us to experience the joys of Christ-centered stewardship. Jesus speaks of the "deceitfulness of wealth" . The psalmist warns, "Though your riches increase, do not set your heart on them" . The dangers of materialism are far-reaching. We should not think that we're immune to the value-changing nature of wealth.

  Randy Alcorn

  Jesus, Heart, Thinking

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.

  Bob Geldof

  People, Environmental, World

  "U2, Coldplay among bands to play in Live 8". www.today.com. May 31, 2005.

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• Christ is the clue to all that is.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Clue, Christ

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• We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.

  Milton Berle

  Funny, Humor, Television Watching

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• Why would God send people to our church if we don't have a great dream? Why would God give a multigifted, multitalented, and multifinancially wealthy person to a church if the biggest thing you are going to do is paint the restrooms next year? That's bad stewardship.

  John C. Maxwell

  Dream, Years, People

  "Turning Vision Into Reality". Enrichment Interview, enrichmentjournal.ag.org. January 2000.

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• If we believe heaven to be our country, it is better for us to transmit our wealth thither, than to retain it here, where we may lose it by a sudden removal.

  John Calvin

  Country, Believe, Heaven

  John Calvin (2013). “Institutes of the Christian Religion Vol. 2: Translated from the Original Latin, and Collated With the Author's Last Edition in French”, p.57, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy - sun, wind and tide. ... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Running, Nature, Wind

  "Uncommon Friends : Life with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Alexis Carrel & Charles Lindbergh". Book by James Newton, 1987.

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• The surplus wealth we have gained to some extent at least belongs to our fellow beings; we are only the temporary custodians of our fortunes, and let us be careful that no just complaint can be made against our stewardship.

  Jacob Schiff

  Custodians, Wealth, Made

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• A protest meeting on the issue of environmental abuse is not a convocation of accusers, it is a convocation of the guilty. The realization ought to clear the smog of self-righteousness that has always conventionally hovered over these occasions, and let us see the work that is to be done.

  Wendell Berry

  Self, Issues, Abuse

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• Remember this-you can't serve God and Money, but you can serve God with money.

  Selwyn Hughes

  Giving, Remember, Serving God

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• Across the continent, on the shores of small tributaries, in the shadows of sacred mountains, on the vast expanse of the prairies, or in the safety of the woods, prayers are being repeated, as they have for thousands of years, and common people with uncommon courage and the whispers of their ancestors in their ears continue their struggles to protect the land and water and trees on which their very existence is based. And like small tributaries joining together to form a mighty river, their force and power grows.

  Winona LaDuke

  Prayer, Struggle, Years

  Winona LaDuke (2002). “The Winona LaDuke Reader: A Collection of Essential Writings”, p.64, Voyageur Press (MN)

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• All knowledge is sterile which does not lead to action and end in charity.

  Desire-Joseph Mercier

  Doe, Charity, Action

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• I judge all things only by the price they shall gain in eternity.

  John Wesley

  Christian, Giving, Judging

  "The Law of Rewards: Giving What You Can't Keep to Gain What You Can't Lose". Book by Randy C. Alcorn, p. 18, 2003.

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• We discover too late that we have turned a blind eye to the extinction of a species that is essential to the balance of life in a particular context. Or we discover too late that the importation of a foreign life-form, animal or vegetable, has upset local ecosystems, damaging soil or neighbouring life-forms. We discover that we have come near the end of supplies-of fossil-fuels for example -on which we have built immense structures of routine expectation.

  Rowan Williams

  Eye, Animal, Ecosystems

  Rowan Williams (2012). “Faith in the Public Square”, p.188, A&C Black

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• Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power, the utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God's creation. Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Taken, Men, Animal

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism”, p.34, Macmillan

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• The time of reckoning will at length arrive. And when finallly summoned to the bar of God, to give an account of our stewardship, what plea can we have to urge in our defense, if we remain willingly, and obstinately ignorant of the way which leads to life, with such transcendent means of knowing it, and such urgent motives to its pursuit?

  William Wilberforce

  Mean, Knowing, Giving

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• Genesis 1...was designed to reflect God, both to reflect God back to God in worship and to reflect God into the rest of creation in stewardship.

  N. T. Wright

  Worship, Creation, Genesis

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• The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.

  Salvatore J. Cordileone

  Brain, Chemicals, Illegal

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• Judaism calls for us to honor the rhythm of human life, the demands of the human community around us, the call of the divine order as the filter and scale for the decisions that drive our own small lives. We do not rule the universe, Judaism reminds us. God does. We are not its standard or its norms. We are only its keepers, its agents, its stewards. To do right by the universe at large is the measure of a happiness framed with the entire cosmos in mind but lived in microcosms across time.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Divine Order, Community, Decision

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• There is a growing threat to the environment, to the vegetation, animals, water and air. Sacred Scripture hands us the image of Cain who rejects his responsibility: 'Am I my brother's keeper?' The Bible shows the human person as his brother's keeper and the guardian of creation which has been entrusted to him.

  Pope John Paul II

  Brother, Responsibility, Animal

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