Stewardship Quotes - Page 11

• Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about the place where they live.

  Holmes Rolston III

  Book, Pages, Language

  Holmes Rolston III (2012). “A New Environmental Ethics: The Next Millennium for Life on Earth”, p.131, Routledge

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• Corporate governance is concerned with holding the balance between economic and social goals and between individual and communal goals. The governance framework is there to encourage the efficient use of resources and equally to require accountability for the stewardship of those resources. The aim is to align as nearly as possible the interests of individuals, corporations and society.

  Adrian Cadbury

  Goal, Accountability, Balance

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• It is impossible to restore the sustainable societies of indigenous and aboriginal peoples. But the values they embodied - careful stewardship of the earth, modest use of its riches, safeguarding the future of the generations to come, restraint and as high a degree of self-provisioning as possible - can reanimate ancient and still unrealized dreams of a secure sustenence for all.

  Jeremy Seabrook

  Dream, Self, Degrees

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• Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies.

  Joseph Barbera

  Television, Phases, Bills

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Human beings are not inevitable, and our brief existence is not preordained to be extended into the distant future. If Homo sapiens is to have a continued presence on earth, humankind will reevaluate its sense of place in the world and modify its strong species-centric stewardship of the planet. Our collective concepts of morality and ethics have a direct impact on our species' ultimate fate.

  Jeff Schweitzer

  Atheist, Strong, Fate

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• Our commitment should be to leave our environment in better shape than when we found it, our nation's fiscal house in better order, our public infrastructure in better repair, and our people better educated and healthier. To indulge in immediate gratification and exploitation is an insult to previous generations, who sacrificed for us, and thievery from the next generation, who depend on our virtue.

  Eric Liu

  Commitment, Order, Indulge In

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• In our good works nothing is our own.

  John Calvin

  Good Work

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Ezekiel 1- 12 (Annotated Edition)”, p.331, Jazzybee Verlag

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• There cannot be a surer rule, nor a stronger exhortation to the observance of it, than when we are taught that all the endowments which we possess are divine deposits entrusted to us for the very purpose of being distributed for the good of our neighbour.

  John Calvin

  Stronger, Purpose, Taught

  John Calvin (2012). “On the Christian Life (Annotated Edition)”, p.23, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The world asks, How much does he give? Christ asks why does he give?

  John Mott

  Giving, Doe, World

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• All things are God's already; we can give him no right, by consecrating any, that he had not before, only we set it apart to his service - just as a gardener brings his master a basket of apricots, and presents them; his lord thanks him, and perhaps gives him something for his pains, and yet the apricots were as much his lord's before as now.

  John Selden

  Pain, Giving, Apricots

  John Selden (1819). “Table talk: being the discourses of John Selden, esq”, p.44

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• Our love for God is tested by the question of whether we seek Him or His gifts.

  Ralph Washington Sockman

  Our Love, Financial, God Love

  Ralph Washington Sockman (1958). “Mans̓ First Love: The Great Commandment”

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• Take a look at your own heart, and you will soon find out what has stuck to it and where your treasure is. It is easy to determine whether hearing the Word of God, living according to it, and achieving such a life gives you as much enjoyment and calls forth as much diligence from you as does accumulating and saving money and property.

  Martin Luther

  Heart, Giving, Doe

  Martin Luther (1956). “The sermon on the mount and the magnificat”

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• The tithe is a wonderful goal but a terrible place to stop.

  Bill Hybels

  Goal, Wonderful, Terrible

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• You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at.

  W. H. Auden

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• The gift derives its value from the rank of the giver.

  Ovid

  Generosity, Giver, Values

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• He that gives all, though but little, gives much; because God looks not to the quantity of the gift, but to the quality of the givers.

  Francis Quarles

  Generosity, Giving, Quality

  Francis Quarles (1856). “Enchiridion: Containing Institutions--divine: Contemplative, Practical; Moral: Ethical, Œconomical, Political”, p.71

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• Proportion thy charity to the strength of thine estate, lest God proportion thine estate to the weakness of thy charity. Let the lips of the poor be the trumpet of thy gift, lest in seeking applause, thou lose thy reward. Nothing is more pleasing to God than an open hand and a closed mouth.

  Francis Quarles

  Hands, Generosity, Giving

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

  William Gilmore Simms

  Lying, Generosity, Giving

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.19

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• Every transformation of humanity has rested upon deep stirrings and intuitions, whose rationalized expression takes the form of a new picture of the cosmos and the nature of the human.

  Lewis Mumford

  Expression, Humanity, Intuition

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• I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Land, Environment, Surroundings

  Meditaciones del Quijote "Lector" (1914)

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• In the time one is given, the steward must make the most of the talents one is given by the Lord.

  Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

  Talent, Lord, Given

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• It is up to us as lawmakers to provide the resources and streamlined processes that will enable our federal forest managers to become the best possible steward of our lands.

  Greg Walden

  Land, Forests, Lawmakers

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• I am supposed to owe the government something like $100 million. I couldn't squeeze out a dime.

  Dennis Kozlowski

  Government, Dimes, Millions

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• By surviving passages of doubt and depression on the vocational journey, I have become clear about at least one thing: self-care is never a selfish act -- it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others. Anytime we can listen to true self and give it the care it requires, we do so not only for ourselves but for the many others whose lives we touch.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Selfish, Journey, Giving

  Parker J. Palmer (2015). “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation”, p.34, John Wiley & Sons

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• The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.

  Owen D. Young

  Business, Opportunity, Men

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