Stewardship Quotes

• When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

  John Muir

  Inspirational, Peace, Nature

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• Jesus Christ said more about money than about any other single thing because, when it comes to a man's real nature, money is of first importance. Money is an exact index to a man's true character. All through Scripture there is an intimate correlation between the development of a man's character and how he handles his money.

  Richard Halverson

  Jesus, Real, Character

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• I was once young and now I am old, but not once have I been witness to God's failure to supply my need when first I had given for the furtherance of His work. He has never failed in His promise, so I cannot fail in my service to Him.

  William Carey

  Generosity, Promise, Needs

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• The worst sin against stewardship is to waste your life.

  R. C. Sproul

  Waste, Sin, Worst

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• Stewardship isn't a subcategory of the Christian life. Stewardship is the Christian life. After all, what is stewardship except that God has entrusted to us life, time, talents, money, possessions, family, and his grace? In each case, he evaluates how we regard what he has entrusted to us and what we do with it.

  Randy Alcorn

  Christian, Grace, Talent

  Randy Alcorn (2011). “Money, Possessions, and Eternity”, p.226, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• I never would have been able to tithe the first million dollars I ever made if I had not tithed my first salary, which was $1.50 per week.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Salary, Dollars, Able

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• It is not what I do that matters, but what a sovereign God chooses to do through me. God does not want worldly successes, He wants me. He wants my heart in submission to Him. Life is not just a few years to spend on self indulgence and career advancement. It is a privilege, a responsibility, a stewardship to be lived according to a much higher calling, God's calling. This alone gives true meaning to life.

  Elizabeth Dole

  Responsibility, Heart, Years

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• Even if I give the whole of my worth to Him, He will find a way to give back to me much more than I gave.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Giving, Way, Whole

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

  Hillel the Elder

  Balance, Needs, World

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• For the world is an ever-elusive and ever-disappointing mirage only from the standpoint of someone standing aside from it—as if it were quite other than himself—and then trying to grasp it. But a third response is possible. Not withdrawal, not stewardship on the hypothesis of a future reward, but the fullest collaboration with the world as a harmonious system of contained conflicts—based on the realization that the only real "I" is the whole endless process.

  Alan Watts

  Real, Trying, Collaboration

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• Every person, every place and every action is qualified by this association with the unconditional; it penetrates every moment of daily life and sanctifies it: "The Universe is God's sanctuary. Every work day is a day of the Lord, every supper is a Lord's supper, every work a fulfillment of the divine task, every joy a joy in God. In all preliminary concerns, ultimate concern is present, consecrating them."

  Paul Tillich

  Joy, Tasks, Lord's Supper

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• No society has ever yet been able to handle the temptations of technology to mastery, to waste, to exuberance, to exploration and exploitation... We have to learn to cherish this earth and cherish it as something that's fragile, that's only one, it's all we have... We have to use our scientific knowledge to correct the dangers that have come from science and technology.

  Margaret Mead

  Technology, Temptation, Mastery

  "Margaret Mead, 1901-1978: One of the Most Famous Anthropologists in the World". Voice of America Special English: "People in America" with Steve Ember and Shirley Griffith, learningenglish.voanews.com. July 1, 2011.

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• I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Giving, Safe

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• Once you make a lot of money, it's incredibly enjoyable to give it away. It's a way to satisfy the soul.

  Stanley Druckenmiller

  Generosity, Giving, Soul

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• If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

  Bob Hope

  Life, Happiness, Success

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• The principal hindrance to the advancement of the kingdom of God is greed. It is the chief obstacle to heaven-sent revival. It seems that when the back of greed is broken, the human spirit soars into regions of unselfishness. I believe that it is safe to say there can be no continuous revival without 'hilarious' giving. And I fear no contradiction: wherever there is 'hilarious' giving there will soon be revival!

  O. S. Hawkins

  Believe, Heaven Sent, Giving

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Eggs, Generosity

  Henry Ward Beecher (1897). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

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• [When I die] if I leave behind me ten pounds...you and all mankind [may] bear witness against me, that I have lived and died a thief and a robber.

  John Wesley

  Generosity, Thieves, May

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• This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Ocean, Future

  Address to the People of Berlin, delivered 24 July 2008, Victory Column

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• Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

  Philip James Bailey

  Respect, Giving, Ethics

  Philip James Bailey (1847). “Festus, a poem. By P. J. Bailey”, p.131

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

  Mort Sahl

  Funny, Inspiration, California

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• Give what you have. To some one, it may be better than you dare to think.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Life, Kindness

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1854). “The Works of Henry W. Longfellow”

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• It's more blessed to give than to receive - especially kittens.

  Bill Cosby

  Bible, Jesus, Blessed

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• Once plants and animals were raised together on the same farm - which therefore neither produced unmanageable surpluses of manure, to be wasted and to pollute the water supply, nor depended on such quantities of commercial fertilizer. The genius of American farm experts is very well demonstrated here: they can take a solution and divide it neatly into two problems.

  Wendell Berry

  Animal, Two, Water

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.54, Counterpoint

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