67 Stewardship Quotes & Sayings with Wallpapers & Posters

Q: What is the best Stewardship quote?

"We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We did not ask for this role, but we cannot abjure it. We may not be suited to it, but here we are." - Stephen Jay Gould

Q: What are some short Stewardship quotes?

"There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm." - Marilynne Robinson "If you see your brother in need, it doesn't matter if you already gave somewhere else. You should be open to the idea of God using you to meet your brother's unexpected need." - Andy Stanley "I'll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be useful. I'll pray, and then I'll sleep." - Marilynne Robinson

Q: What is good short Stewardship quote?

"Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck." [ On Water ]" - Guy de Maupassant

God can have our money and not have our hearts, but He cannot have our hearts without having our money.

You can sing all you want about how you love Jesus, you can have crocodile tears in your eyes, but the consecration that doesn't reach your purse has not reached your heart.

Faith Quotes / Money Quotes Stewardship Quotes

Since my money is God's money, every spending decision I make is a spiritual decision.

Christianity Quotes Money Quotes Stewardship Quotes

Since the debt limit simply accommodates debt that has already been incurred, raising it should, in theory, be perfunctory. But politicians have found it a useful shibboleth for showing their fealty fiscal discipline, even as they vote to ratify the debts their previous actions have a beginning the country to pay. The symbol of railing against debt has proven politically beneficial, even if not substantively meaningful.

Leadership Quotes / It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the Politics of Quotes Politics Quotes Statesmanship Quotes Stewardship Quotes

Lincoln bore down or anything he handled, mastering both the details and the principles.

Focus Quotes / Calling Quotes Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln Quotes Job Quotes Stewardship Quotes Vocation Quotes

Simply because humankind have the power now to meddle or 'manage' or 'exercise stewardship' in every nook and cranny of the world does not mean that we have a right to do so. Even less, the obligation.

Environmentalism Quotes Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast Quotes Stewardship Quotes

Freedom from anxiety is characterized by three inner attitudes. If what we have we received as a gift, and if what we have is to be cared for by God, and if what we have is available to others, then we will possess freedom from anxiety.

Celebration of Discipline Quotes Discipleship Quotes Materialism Quotes Stewardship Quotes

Hoarding is both unnecessary and an affront to God, who is perfectly capable of providing abundantly for those who trust in him.

Greed Quotes / Materialism Quotes Stewardship Quotes The Conversion of the Imagination: Paul as Interpreter of Israel's Scripture Quotes

What you fear most will determine whether you merely save for the future or give for the future.

Fear Quotes / Fields Of Gold Quotes Giving Quotes Saving Quotes Sharing Quotes Stewardship Quotes

As you give to fund God's needs, are you forced to trust Him to provide for yours? That's what a growing faith is about. And over the long haul, it's not enough just to commit to a percentage. Growth means reviewing your giving goals and occasionally increasing the percentage you give.

Faith Quotes / Fields Of Gold Quotes Financial planning Quotes Giving Quotes Goals Quotes Stewardship Quotes

..the best strategy for giving is a two-fold approach: a basic plan combined with a willingness to consider spontaneous giving when unique opportunities arise.

Fields Of Gold Quotes Financial planning Quotes Giving Quotes Opportunity Quotes Stewardship Quotes Strategy Quotes

[God] wants you to go home, look at your bucket of seed, and determine in your heart how much you'd like to sow. He wants you to consider thoughtfully your current circumstances, your life, your potential, and your finances. He wants you to involve your family. He wants you to pray about it. And then He wants you to come up with a plan.

Fields Of Gold Quotes Financial planning Quotes Giving Quotes Money Quotes Sharing Quotes Stewardship Quotes

As believers, we all have the responsibility to leverage our wealth for kingdom purposes.

Responsibility Quotes / Believers Quotes Christianity Quotes Fields Of Gold Quotes Giving Quotes Stewardship Quotes Wealth Quotes

Here's a scary thought: What if God called you to give beyond your comfort level? Would you be afraid? Would you try to explain it away or dismiss it as impractical? And in the process, would you miss out on a harvest opportunity for which God had explicitly prospered you in the first place?

Fear Quotes / Afraid Quotes Comfort Quotes Comfort zone Quotes Crazy Quotes Explain Quotes Fields Of Gold Quotes

If you see your brother in need, it doesn't matter if you already gave somewhere else. You should be open to the idea of God using you to meet your brother's unexpected need.

Compassion Quotes / Brother Quotes Burden Quotes Caring Quotes Christianity Quotes Fields Of Gold Quotes Giving Quotes

...often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience.

Faith Quotes Sacrifice Quotes / Comfort zone Quotes Fields Of Gold Quotes Financial freedom Quotes Giving Quotes Promise Quotes Stewardship Quotes

God has made us to be conduits of his grace. The danger is in thinking the conduit should be lined with gold. It shouldn't. Copper will do.

Copper Quotes Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist Quotes Gold Quotes Grace Quotes Lifestyle Quotes Stewardship Quotes

God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using to alleviate the misery of unevangelized, uneducated, unmedicated, and unfed millions. The evidence that many professing Christians have been deceived by this doctrine is how little they give and how much they own. God has prospered them. And by an almost irresistible law of consumer culture (baptized by a doctrine of health, wealth, and prosperity) they have bought bigger (and more) houses, newer (and more) cars, fancier (and more) clothes, better (and more) meat, and all manner of trinkets and gadgets and containers and devices and equipment to make life more fun. They will object: Does not the Old Testament promise that God will prosper his people? Indeed! God increases our yield, so that by giving we can prove our yield is not our god. God does not prosper a man's business so that he can move from a Ford to a Cadillac. God prospers a business so that 17,000 unreached people can be reached with the gospel. He prospers the business so that 12 percent of the world's population can move a step back from the precipice of starvation.

Compassion Quotes Greed Quotes / Caring Quotes Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist Quotes Evangelism Quotes Giving Quotes Gospel Quotes Hunger Quotes

Recovery is the ability to see things with clarity, "freed from the drab blur of greatness or familiarity – from possessiveness.

Materialism Quotes Perspective Quotes Stewardship Quotes The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien Quotes C.S. Lewis Quotes Owen Barfield Quotes

We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We did not ask for this role, but we cannot abjure it. We may not be suited to it, but here we are.

Intelligence Quotes / Ecology Quotes Life Quotes Stewardship Quotes The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History Quotes

Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck."[On Water]

Leadership Quotes Peace Quotes Responsibility Quotes War Quotes / Collected Stories of Guy De Maupassant Quotes Duties Quotes Government Quotes Shipwreck Quotes Steering Quotes Stewardship Quotes

How different our standard is from Christ's. We ask how much a man gives. Christ asks how much he keeps.

Christ Quotes Christianity Quotes Giving Quotes Keeping Quotes Sharing Quotes Standards Quotes

Only God can make the common sacred.

Calling Quotes Job Quotes Regeneration Quotes Renewal Quotes Stewardship Quotes To Live Is Christ Quotes

In relation to the natural world, the pleasure of Americans can be destructive in the same way that their work has already proved to be. It is not, certainly, a conscious destructiveness. But in that very unconsciousness it becomes an aspect of one of our worst national failings: our refusal to admit the need to be conscious. Or to put it more meaningfully: our refusal to admit that unconsciousness, in our time, is almost inevitably destructive.

Nature Quotes / Stewardship Quotes The Long-Legged House Quotes

The divine mandate to use the world justly and charitably, then, defines every person's moral predicament as that of a steward. But this predicament is hopeless and meaningless unless it produces an appropriate discipline: stewardship. And stewardship is hopeless and meaningless unless it involves long-term courage, perseverance, devotion, and skill. This skill is not to be confused with any accomplishment or grace of spirit or of intellect. It has to do with everyday proprieties in the practical use and care of the created things - with "right livelihood.

Creation Quotes Stewardship Quotes The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural and Agricultural Quotes Vocation Quotes

We depend upon other creatures and survive by their deaths. To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation. When we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament. When we do it ignorantly, greedily, clumsily, destructively, it is a desecration. In such desecration we condemn ourselves to spiritual and moral loneliness, and others to want.

Creation Quotes Stewardship Quotes The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural and Agricultural Quotes

Let me outline briefly as I can what seem to me the characteristics of these opposite kinds of mind. I conceive a strip-miner to be a model exploiter, and as a model nurturer I take the old-fashioned idea or ideal of a farmer. The exploiter is a specialist, an expert; the nurturer is not. The standard of the exploiter is efficiency; the standard of the nurturer is care. The exploiter's goal is money, profit; the nurturer's goal is health -- his land's health, his own, his family's, his community's, his country's. Whereas the exploiter asks of a piece of land only how much and how quickly it can be made to produce, the nurturer asks a question that is much more complex and difficult: What is its carrying capacity? (That is: How much can be taken from it without diminishing it? What can it produce dependably for an indefinite time?) The exploiter wishes to earn as much as possible by as little work as possible; the nurturer expects, certainly, to have a decent living from his work, but his characteristic wish is to work as well as possible. The competence of the exploiter is in organization; that of the nurturer is in order -- a human order, that is, that accommodates itself both to other order and to mystery. The exploiter typically serves an institution or organization; the nurturer serves land, household, community, place. The exploiter thinks in terms of numbers, quantities, "hard facts"; the nurturer in terms of character, condition, quality, kind.

Ecology Quotes Revolution Quotes Stewardship Quotes The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture Quotes Transition Quotes

It is possible, I think, to say that... a Christian agriculture [is] formed upon the understanding that it is sinful for people to misuse or destroy what they did not make. The Creation is a unique, irreplaceable gift, therefore to be used with humility, respect, and skill.

Agriculture Quotes Christianity Quotes Land Quotes Stewardship Quotes The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture Quotes

In the loss of skill, we lose stewardship; in losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of Creation. It is possible - as our experience in this good land shows - to exile ourselves from Creation, and to ally ourselves with the principle of destruction - which is, ultimately, the principle of nonentity. It is to be willing in general for being to not-be. And once we have allied ourselves with that principle, we are foolish to think that we can control the results. (pg. 303, The Gift of Good Land)

Creation Quotes Land Quotes Stewardship Quotes The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays Quotes

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.(pg. 73, "Feminism, the Body, and the Machine")

Future Quotes Nature Quotes / Care Quotes Creation Quotes Stewardship Quotes The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays Quotes

...the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it, and to foster its renewal, is our only legitimate hope.

Nature Quotes Responsibility Quotes / Care Quotes Earth Quotes Stewardship Quotes The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays Quotes

No settled family or community has ever called its home place an “environment.” None has ever called its feeling for its home place “biocentric” or “anthropocentric.” None has ever thought of its connection to its home place as “ecological,” deep or shallow. The concepts and insights of the ecologists are of great usefulness in our predicament, and we can hardly escape the need to speak of “ecology” and “ecosystems.” But the terms themselves are culturally sterile. They come from the juiceless, abstract intellectuality of the universities which was invented to disconnect, displace, and disembody the mind. The real names of the environment are the names of rivers and river valleys; creeks, ridges, and mountains; towns and cities; lakes, woodlands, lanes roads, creatures, and people.And the real name of our connection to this everywhere different and differently named earth is “work.” We are connected by work even to the places where we don’t work, for all places are connected; it is clear by now that we cannot exempt one place from our ruin of another. The name of our proper connection to the earth is “good work,” for good work involves much giving of honor. It honors the source of its materials; it honors the place where it is done; it honors the art by which it is done; it honors the thing that it makes and the user of the made thing. Good work is always modestly scaled, for it cannot ignore either the nature of individual places or the differences between places, and it always involves a sort of religious humility, for not everything is known. Good work can be defined only in particularity, for it must be defined a little differently for every one of the places and every one of the workers on the earth.The name of our present society’s connection to the earth is “bad work” – work that is only generally and crudely defined, that enacts a dependence that is ill understood, that enacts no affection and gives no honor. Every one of us is to some extent guilty of this bad work. This guilt does not mean that we must indulge in a lot of breast-beating and confession; it means only that there is much good work to be done by every one of us and that we must begin to do it.

Community Quotes Conservation Quotes Environment Quotes Home Quotes Stewardship Quotes Volunteering Quotes

It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire.

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I'll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be useful.I'll pray, and then I'll sleep.

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Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. I think there must also be a prevenient courage that allows us to be brave - that is, to acknowledge that there is more beauty than our eyes can bear, that precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm. And therefore, this courage allows us, as the old men said, to make ourselves useful. It allows us to be generous, which is another way of saying exactly the same thing.

Beauty Quotes Courage Quotes Kindness Quotes Love Quotes / Brave Quotes Generous Quotes Gilead Quotes Giving Quotes Grace Quotes Life Quotes

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.

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Just because you can't act EVERYWHERE doesn't mean you don't act ANYWHERE. – Madeleine Albright

Humility Quotes Leadership Quotes / American Sketches: Great Leaders Quotes Creative Thinkers Quotes and Heroes of a Hurricane Quotes Calling Quotes Job Quotes Priorities Quotes

We should remember Christ's words, 'Let nothing be wasted,' when we look in our refrigerators and garbage cans and garages.

Christ Quotes Christianity Quotes Money Quotes Possessions and Eternity Quotes Stewardship Quotes Waste Quotes

The opportunities for using our financial resources to spread the gospel and strengthen the church all over the world are greater than they've ever been. As God raised up Esther for just such a time as hers, I'm convinced he's raise us up, with all our wealth, to help fulfill the great commission. The question is, what are we doing with that money? Our job is to make sure it gets to his intended recipients.

Great commission Quotes Missions Quotes Money Quotes Possessions and Eternity Quotes Opportunity Quotes Stewardship Quotes

To procrastinate obedience is to disobey God.

Discipline Quotes Procrastination Quotes / Christianity Quotes Money Quotes Possessions and Eternity Quotes Obedience Quotes Stewardship Quotes Tithing Quotes

In the midst of prosperity, the challenge for believers is to handle wealth in such a way that it acts as a blessing, not a curse.

Blessing Quotes Curse Quotes Money Quotes Possessions and Eternity Quotes Prosperity Quotes Stewardship Quotes

I feel like a child who has found a wonderful trail in the woods. Countless others have gone before and blazed the trail, but to the child it's as new and fresh as if it had never been walked before. The child is invariably anxious for others to join in the great adventure. It's something that can only be understood by actual experience. Those who've begun the journey, and certainly those who've gone further than I, will readily understand what I am saying.

Christianity Quotes Discovery Quotes Excitement Quotes Money Quotes Possessions and Eternity Quotes Stewardship Quotes

It's curious that the Church has become the most tightfisted at the very time in history when God has provided most generously. There's considerable talk about the end of the age, and many people seem to believe that Christ will return in their lifetime. But why is it that expecting Christ's return hasn't radically influenced our giving? Why is it that people who believe in the soon return of Christ are so quick to build their own financial empires--which prophecy tells us will perish--and so slow to build God's kingdom?

End times Quotes Giving Quotes Kingdom of god Quotes Money Quotes Possessions and Eternity Quotes Return of christ Quotes

Given our abundance, the burden of proof should always be on keeping, not giving. Why would you not give? We err by beginning with the assumption that we should keep or spend the money God entrusts to us. Giving should be the default choice. Unless there is a compelling reason to spend it or keep it, we should give it.

Burden of proof Quotes Giving Quotes Money Quotes Possessions and Eternity Quotes Stewardship Quotes

Some take pains to be biblical, but many [Christian financial teachers, writers, investment counselors, and seminar leaders] simply parrot their secular colleagues. Other than beginning and ending with prayer, mentioning Christ, and sprinkling in some Bible verses, there's no fundamental difference. They reinforce people's materialist attitudes and lifestyles. They suggest a variety of profitable plans in which people can spend or stockpile the bulk of their resources. In short, to borrow a term from Jesus, some Christian financial experts are helping people to be the most successful 'rich fools' they can be.

Christianity Quotes Finances Quotes Financial planning Quotes Fool Quotes Foolish Quotes Hoarding Quotes

Whenever we have excess, giving should be our natural response. It should be the automatic decision, the obvious thing to do in light of Scripture and human need.

Greed Quotes / Excess Quotes Giving Quotes Money Quotes Possessions and Eternity Quotes Need Quotes Scripture Quotes

Christians are God's delivery people, through whom he does his giving to a needy world. We are conduits of God's grace to others. Our eternal investment portfolio should be full of the most strategic kingdom-building projects to which we can disburse God's funds.

Christianity Quotes Giving Quotes Grace Quotes Investment kingdom Quotes Money Quotes Possessions and Eternity Quotes

A disciple does not ask, "How much can I keep?" but, "How much more can I give?" Whenever we start to get comfortable with our level of giving, it's time to raise it again.

Discipline Quotes Faith Quotes Trust Quotes / Christianity Quotes Comfort Quotes Disciple Quotes Give Quotes Giving Quotes Keep Quotes

Wealth is a relational barrier. It keeps us from having open relationships.

Honesty Quotes / Christianity Quotes Communication Quotes Money Quotes Possessions and Eternity Quotes Openness Quotes Relationships Quotes

To turn the tide of materialism in the Christian community, we desperately need bold models of kingdom-centered living. Despite our need to do it in a way that doesn't glorify people, we must hear each other's stories about giving or else our people will not learn to give.

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