Stewardship Quotes - Page 9

• What the Bible says is really true-it's better to give than to receive.

  Ted Turner

  Giving, Generosity, Really True

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• Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.

  Bob Dylan

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Mean

  Bob Dylan (2005). “Bob Dylan: Inspirations”, p.44, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I cannot help leaving my books behind me whenever God calls me hence; but in every other respect, my own hands will be my executors.

  John Wesley

  Book, Hands, Generosity

  John Wesley (1831). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.254

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• Why does God bless us with abundance? So we can have enough to live on and then use the rest for all manner of good works that alleviate spiritual and physical misery. Enough for us; abundance for others.

  John Piper

  Spiritual, Environmental, Doe

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.203, Multnomah

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• In the early days of the Mormon Church, stewardship toward the land was a priority. It was a matter of survival in the desert.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Land, Priorities, Survival

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

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• We have failed...through our lack of responsible awareness...and thus added to suffering around the world. All of us are cripples-some physically, some mentally, some emotionally. We must, therefore, strive cooperatively to create a new world. There is no time left for destruction, for hatred, for anger. We must build, in hope and joy and celebration.

  Ivan Illich

  Joy, Hatred, Suffering

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• Squash has been my life and I owe a lot to the sport.

  Jahangir Khan

  Sports, Squash, Has Beens

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• I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance.

  Henry Clay

  Patriotism, East, West

  Speech in the Senate (1848)

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• Obviously, if Christianity is going to survive as more than a respecter and comforter of profitable inquiries, then Christians, regardless of their organizations, are going to have to interest themselves in economy-which is to say, in nature and in work. They are going to have to give workable answers to those who say we cannot live without this economy that is destroying us and our world, who see the murder of Creation as the only way of life.

  Wendell Berry

  Christian, Organization, Our World

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• Our view of nature will influence the way we treat nature, and our view of human nature will affect our understanding of human responsibility.

  Ian Barbour

  Responsibility, Views, Understanding

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• If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Forgiveness, God, Forgive Me

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• Take care how you place your moccasins upon the Earth, step with care, for the faces of the future generations are looking up from the Earth waiting their turn for life.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Waiting, Environmental, Steps

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• We can only live the changes we wish to see: we cannot think our way to humanity. Every one of us, every group, must become the model of that which we desire to create. We must break the obsolete social and economic systems that divide the world between the over-privileged and the under-privileged. Each of us, whether government leader or protester, business executive or worker, professor or student, share a common guilt.

  Ivan Illich

  Thinking, Government, Leader

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• The idea that we are "stewards of the earth" is another symptom of human arrogance. Imagine yourself with the task of overseeing your body's physical processes. Do you understand the way it works well enough to keep all its systems in operation? Can you make your kidneys function? Can you control the removal of waste? Are you conscious of the blood flow through your arteries, or the fact that you are losing a hundred thousand skin cells a minute?

  Lynn Margulis

  Cells, Blood, Ideas

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• You can recognize women who are grateful to be a daughter of God by their outward appearance. These women understand their stewardship over their bodies and treat them with dignity.

  Margaret D. Nadauld

  Daughter, Grateful, Body

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• We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the present, the future will have received full justice from us. A good future is implicit in the soils, forests, grasslands, marshes, deserts, mountains, rivers, lakes, and oceans that we have now, and in the good things of human culture that we have now; the only valid "futurology" available to us is to take care of those things. We have no need to contrive and dabble at "the future of the human race"; we have the same pressing need that we have always had - to love, care for, and teach our children.

  Wendell Berry

  Children, Ocean, Lakes

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.188, Counterpoint Press

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• It is time for us to take off our masks, to step out from behind our personas - whatever they might be: educators, activists, biologists, geologists, writers, farmers, ranchers, and bureaucrats - and admit we are lovers, engaged in an erotics of place. Loving the land. Honoring its mysteries. Acknowledging, embracing the spirit of place - there is nothing more legitimate and there is nothing more true. That is why we are here. That is why we do what we do. There is nothing intellectual about it. We love the land. It is a primal affair.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Land, Intellectual, Farmers And Ranchers

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “An Unspoken Hunger”, p.77, Vintage

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• One of the reasons churches in North America have trouble guiding people about money is that the church's economy is built on consumerism. If churches see themselves as suppliers of religious goods and services and their congregants as consumers, then offerings are 'payment.'

  Doug Pagitt

  Religious, Offering, America

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• Leadership is neither showmanship nor dictatorship. Leadership is a stewardship and a partnership.

  Rick Warren

  Advice, Partnership, Dictatorship

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from May 13, 2013

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• Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can't persist much longer. If it does, then we won't.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Ideas, Feelings, Environmental

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• In 40-odd years in show business, some years I could do no wrong, and some years I could do nothing right. Show business. I owe it everything - it owes me nothing.

  Patsy Kelly

  Years, Odd, Shows

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Success is not what you leave to but what you leave behind

  John C. Maxwell

  Behinds

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• ...the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through technology, imposing an abstract grid over nature.

  Alan Watts

  Technology, Civilization, Goal

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• Nature is cruel but we don't have to be

  Temple Grandin

  Compassion

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• The best investment with the least risk and the greatest dividend is giving.

  John Templeton

  Generosity, Giving, Risk

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