Stewardship Quotes

I am large, I contain multitudes

— Walt Whitman

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

— Malcolm Forbes

I owe everything to the army.

— Norman Wisdom

Examples are few of men ruined by giving.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

“Leaders are chosen stewards.”

— Germany Kent

Giving is true loving.

— Charles Spurgeon

The gift without the giver is rare.

— James Russell Lowell

In our good works nothing is our own.

— John Calvin

Our true acquisitions lie only in our charities - we gain only as we give.

— William Gilmore Simms

I think I owe it to myself and my fans in Britain to play one more Wimbledon.

— Goran Ivanisevic

I was happier when I was doing a mechanic's job.

— Henry Ford

Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Don't tell me you're trusting God until you trust Him with your pocketbook.

— J. Vernon McGee

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

— Mark Batterson

Take care of yourself - you never know when the world will need you.

— Hillel the Elder

If you do not give the tenth part to God, he will take the nine parts.

— Ambrose

Dearest Lord, teach me to be generous; teach me to serve you as you deserve; to give and not to count the…

— Anonymous

... if we are serious about helping nature, we need to be willing to forego material benefits.

— Douglas J. Moo

Giving is more than a responsibility-it is a privilege; more than an act of obedience-it is evidence of our faith.

— William Arthur Ward

The one principle that surrounds everything else is that of stewardship; that we are the managers of everything that God has given…

— Larry Burkett

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

— Salvatore J. Cordileone

“We did not - and could not - purchase Earth with money. We have just been granted temporary stewardship.”

— Ilchi Lee

Leadership starts with understanding responsibility, not ability. Leadership is a Stewardship, not a show.

— Rick Warren

“Nothing belongs to us,' Mrs. Tynte-Irvine would say in her rarefied English-Scottish accent that indicated a bygone elegance and nobility. 'We're only…

— Eric Motley

To all earth's creatures God has given the broad earth, the springs, the rivers and the forests, giving the air to the…

— Gregory of Nazianzus

Every transformation of humanity has rested upon deep stirrings and intuitions, whose rationalized expression takes the form of a new picture of…

— Lewis Mumford

“Koch was not one for grand plans. He just made constant adjustments. He always used the word 'stewardship' to describe his leadership…

— David Brooks

The future of our children is a trust we have been given. To conserve and grow, not to squander wastefully on needless…

— Helen Caldicott

One of the reasons churches in North America have trouble guiding people about money is that the church's economy is built on…

— Doug Pagitt

But if one wishes to be absolute master of all, to obtain the entire inheritance, and to exclude his brothers from even…

— Gregory of Nyssa

With regards to the Blackfoot Clearwater Stewardship Act, I believe it lacks a balanced approach. It designates 79,000 acres as new wilderness…

— Matt Rosendale

I will place no value on anything I have or may possess, except in relation to the kingdom of Christ. If anything…

— David Livingstone

“Since the debt limit simply accommodates debt that has already been incurred, raising it should, in theory, be perfunctory. But politicians have…

— Thomas E. Mann

Confronting climate change is, in the long run, one of the greatest challenges that we face, and you can see this duty…

— John F. Kerry

“Let me outline briefly as I can what seem to me the characteristics of these opposite kinds of mind. I conceive a…

— Wendell Berry

“No settled family or community has ever called its home place an “environment.” None has ever called its feeling for its home…

— Wendell Berry

... it is not a crisis of our environs or surroundings; it is a crisis of our lives as individuals, as family…

— Wendell Berry

Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. I think there must also be…

— Marilynne Robinson

The old Indian teaching was that is is wrong to tear loose from its place on the earth anything that may be…

— Wooden Leg

I started by saying that one of the most fateful errors of our age is the belief that the problem of production…

— E. F. Schumacher