Stewardship Quotes - Page 8

• Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.

  Morgan Freeman

  Kings, Memories, Rights

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• I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.

  Andre Gide

  Life, Spring, Real

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• I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

  Claude Monet

  Art, Nature, Flower

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• The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Nature, Self, Environmental

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• But it is important to realize we are all trapped in mental constructs, and so we separate ourselves from reality; the whole world loses its aliveness-or, rather, we lose our ability to sense that aliveness, the sacredness of nature. When we approach nature through the conceptualizing mind, we see a forest as a commodity, a concept. We no longer see it for what it truly is, but for what we want to use it as. It is reduced. This is how it becomes possible for humans to destroy the planet without realizing what they are doing.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Reality, Mind, Important

  "Beyond Happiness And Unhappiness". Interview with Steve Donoso, thesunmagazine.org. July 2002.

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• Christians, of all people, should not be destroyers. We should treat nature with an overwhelming respect. We may cut down a tree to build a house, or to make a fire to keep the family warm. But we should not cut down the tree just to cut down the tree. We may, if necessary, bark the cork tree in order to have the use of the bark. But what we should not do is to bark the tree simply for the sake of doing so, and let it dry and stand there a dead skeleton in the wind. To do so is not to treat the tree with integrity.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Integrity, Cutting

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• We have the right to rid our houses of ants; but what we have no right to do is to forget to honor the ant as God made it, out in the place where God made the ant to be. When we meet the ant on the sidewalk, we step over him. He is a creature, like ourselves; not made in the image of God, it is true, but equal with man as far as creation is concerned. The ant and the man are both creatures.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Men, House, Honor

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• Do not, as is usually the case, thrust the care of the common weal upon your neighbor; then, as each one in his own thoughts makes light of the matter, all find to their surprise that they have drawn upon themselves by their neglect a personal misfortune.

  Saint Basil

  Light, Environmental, Care

  Saint Basil the Great, Aeterna Press (2015). “The Letters”, p.190, Aeterna Press

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• And the desire to own property, to take for ourselves things which in no way belong to us, does not stop short at the sun. The air is already bought and sold as a commodity, by health resorts. And what of water? Or waterpower? Why should the earth be parceled out into private hands? Is it any different from the sun? No; the earth belongs to the people who live on it. God intended it for them, but it has been taken over by private individuals. Privare means to steal. Thus private property is stolen property - property stolen from God and from humankind!

  Eberhard Arnold

  Taken, Mean, Air

  Eberhard Arnold, Johann Christoph Arnold (2000). “Eberhard Arnold: Writings Selected with an Introduction”, p.94, The Plough Publishing House

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• I cannot help leaving my books behind me whenever God calls me hence; but in every other respect, my own hands will be my executors.

  John Wesley

  Book, Hands, Generosity

  John Wesley (1831). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.254

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• Why does God bless us with abundance? So we can have enough to live on and then use the rest for all manner of good works that alleviate spiritual and physical misery. Enough for us; abundance for others.

  John Piper

  Spiritual, Environmental, Doe

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.203, Multnomah

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• Nature does require her times of preservation.

  William Shakespeare

  Environmental, Doe, Preservation

  1613 Wolsey to Henry. Henry VIII, act 3, sc.2, l.147-8.

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• Now there are heavy houses everywhere and more of them are being built. In fact, it is only when more houses are being constructed that some countries consider their economics healthy. Yet each house is a heavy footprint on the Earth. Just as all our possessions represent-if we cannot learn ways of sharing them-a weight and clutter that often means the faces of future generations will look up into darkness and the pressure on the Earth of "things."

  Alice Walker

  Country, Mean, House

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• One cannot use with impunity the different categories of beings-animals, plants, the natural elements-simply as one wishes, according to economic needs. One must take into account the nature of each being and its mutual connection in an ordered system, which is the cosmos.

  Pope John Paul II

  Animal, Environmental, Wish

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• Many LBOs are man-made disasters. When the price paid is excessive, the equity portion of an LBO is really an out-of-the-money call option. Many fiduciaries placed large amounts of the capital under their stewardship into such options in 2006 and 2007.

  Seth Klarman

  Men, Disaster, Made

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• Our earth is like a child who has grown up without parents, having no one to guide her... Some have attempted to help her but most have simply tried to use her. Humans, who have been given the task to lovingly steer the world, instead plunder her with no consideration, other than their immediate needs. And they give little thought for their own children who will inherit their lack of love. So they use her and abuse her with little consideration and then when she shudders of blows her breath. They are offended and raise their fist at God.

  William P. Young

  Children, Blow, Giving

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• Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.

  Carl Jung

  Environmental, World, Machines

  Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.122, North Atlantic Books

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• Our problem with limited resources is not primarily overpopulation; it is greed. Our problem with pollution is not the invention of fluorocarbons or mass transport; it is irresponsibility. The loss of an acre of forest every second, the mass slaughter of elephants for their ivory, the extinction of entire species of plants, insects and animals all over the world is not something that "just happens" because there are more of us human beings. It happens because the race of ruling beings put in charge has almost wholly lost its sense of stewardship. We have turned away from God.

  Winkie Pratney

  Loss, Animal, Race

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• Our time on earth and our energy, intelligence, opportunities, relationships, and resources are all gifts from God that he has entrusted to our care and management. We are stewards of whatever God gives us. This concept of stewardship begins with the recognition that God is the owner of everything and everyone on earth. ... We never actually own anything during our brief stay on earth. God just loans the earth to us while we're here. It was God's property before you arrived, and God will loan it to someone else after you die.

  Rick Warren

  Opportunity, Giving, Environmental

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• Our view of nature will influence the way we treat nature, and our view of human nature will affect our understanding of human responsibility.

  Ian Barbour

  Responsibility, Views, Understanding

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• Obviously, if Christianity is going to survive as more than a respecter and comforter of profitable inquiries, then Christians, regardless of their organizations, are going to have to interest themselves in economy-which is to say, in nature and in work. They are going to have to give workable answers to those who say we cannot live without this economy that is destroying us and our world, who see the murder of Creation as the only way of life.

  Wendell Berry

  Christian, Organization, Our World

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• Take care how you place your moccasins upon the Earth, step with care, for the faces of the future generations are looking up from the Earth waiting their turn for life.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Waiting, Environmental, Steps

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• We have failed...through our lack of responsible awareness...and thus added to suffering around the world. All of us are cripples-some physically, some mentally, some emotionally. We must, therefore, strive cooperatively to create a new world. There is no time left for destruction, for hatred, for anger. We must build, in hope and joy and celebration.

  Ivan Illich

  Joy, Hatred, Suffering

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• Both group effort and individual testimony flow from conviction as to the role of people on earth. In stewardship of the common heritage, a few simple beliefs recur: that all are indeed members of the same human family, that all share in responsibility for the others, that each is capable of responding directly to divine guidance. To seek to translate these into practical action with regard to soil or petroleum or the fish of the sea is not necessarily to do what is directly effective in changing society.

  Gilbert F. White

  Responsibility, Simple, Sea

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• Squash has been my life and I owe a lot to the sport.

  Jahangir Khan

  Sports, Squash, Has Beens

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