Stewardship Quotes - Page 11

• 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 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.

  Wendell Berry

  Christian, Humility, Unique

  Wendell Berry (1996). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, Counterpoint LLC

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

  Bill Hybels

  Goal, Wonderful, Terrible

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• I am large, I contain multitudes

  Walt Whitman

  Multitudes

  "Song of Myself " l. 1324 (written 1855)

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• The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.

  Rachel Carson

  Nature, Future, Character

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• Poverty is a reaper: it harvests everything inside us that might have made us capable of social intercourse with others, and leaves us empty, purged of feeling, so that we may endure all the darkness of the present day.

  Muriel Barbery

  Compassion, Darkness, Feelings

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, August, 2006.

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• At the heart of the WTO is an assault on everything left standing in the commons, in the public realm. Everything is now for sale. Even those areas of life that we once considered sacred like health and education, food and water and air and seeds and genes and a heritage. It is all now for sale. Economic freedom - not democracy, and not ecological stewardship - is the defining metaphor of the WTO and its central goal is humanity's mastery of the natural world through its total commodification.

  Maude Barlow

  Heart, Air, Water

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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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• When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can't eat money.

  Alanis Obomsawin

  Money, Nature, Food

  "Who is the Chairman of This Meeting? : A Collection of Essays". Book by Ralph Osborne (p. 43), "Conversations with North American Indians" by Ted Poole, 1972.

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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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• Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me the same food the admiral ate.

  Jack Adams

  Nice, Home, Letters

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• Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Inspirational, Lying, Generosity

  "Of The Heart". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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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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• One promises much, to avoid giving little.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Keeping Promises, Generosity, Giving

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

  Mark Batterson

  Luxury, Issues

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• How anyone can profess to find animal life interesting and yet take delight in reducing the wonder of any animal to a bloody mass of fur or feathers?

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Life, Compassion, Animal

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1967). “And even if you do: essays on man, manners & machines”

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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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• It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations.

  Christine Gregoire

  Children, Feminist, Legacy

  Christine Gregoire's Inaugural Speech in Olympia, Washington, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. January 12, 2005.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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