Stewardship Quotes - Page 2

Leadership is stewardship, it's temporary and you're accountable!

Don't tell me you're trusting God until you trust Him with your pocketbook.

I am large, I contain multitudes

Give naught, get same. Give much, get same.

The surplus wealth we have gained to some extent at least belongs to our fellow beings; we are only the temporary custodians of our fortunes, and let us be careful that no just complaint can be made against our stewardship.

Dearest Lord, teach me to be generous; teach me to serve you as you deserve; to give and not to count the cost.

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

I owe nothing to Women's Lib.

Give God what's right, not what's left!

There is a price to be paid for fabricating around us a society which is as artifical and as mechanized as our own, and this is that we can exist in it only on condition that we adapt ourselves to it. This is our punishment.

We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.

The only right stewardship is that which is tested by the rule of love.

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

Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.

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.

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.

We do not have any respect, let alone reverence, for the world of nature because we do not have any respect, let alone reverence, for ourselves. It is because we cripple and mutilate ourselves that we cripple and mutilate everything else as well. Our contemporary crisis is really our own depravity writ large.

There can be no stewardship without stewards.

We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we made.

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

We owe it to each other - and to our children and grandchildren - to leave our planet in a better state than when we found it.

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.

Leadership is neither showmanship nor dictatorship. Leadership is a stewardship and a partnership.

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

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