Quotes About Stewards

#1. To limit the ways our daughters can legitimately function as stewards/rulers further devalues the image of God in them and continues the imbalance and distortion of God's plan.

Lisa Graham McMinn

#2. Our planet cannot continue to be a life-giving environment unless human beings quickly become much more responsible stewards of the created world.

Gerald O'Collins

#3. We need to broaden our sympathies both in space and time - and perceive ourselves as part of a long heritage, and stewards for an immense future.

Martin Rees

#4. They are coming and they will speak to us all. Their message will terrify us to our core. Only then will we act! "We must move now to save ourselves and our dear planet. We owe it to those who placed life here. We were supposed to be stewards. Instead, we have been rapists of mother earth.

B.C. Chase

#5. I believe that we are stewards of a time that is upon us - but often we need the encouragement of each other to be able to wake up to this extraordinary time and possibility.

Jean Houston

#6. Generosity helps us make a concerted effort to keep the needs of others in the forefront of our thinking. Not for guilt's sake, but for the sake of being good stewards of the resources we have been privileged to manage.

Andy Stanley

#7. We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We did not ask for this role, but we cannot abjure it. We may not be suited to it, but here we are.

Stephen Jay Gould

#8. studios down. (He also thought, frankly, that making us the stewards of both entities would guarantee that Pixar's traditions didn't get overtaken by those of the much larger corporation, the Walt Disney Company.)

Ed Catmull

#9. As the stewards of creation, what account will the Human Race be able to give of our Stewardship?

D. Denise Dianaty

#10. The carbon emissions from tar shale and tar sands would initiate a continual unfolding of climate disasters over the course of this century. We would be miserable stewards of creation. We would rob our own children and grandchildren.

James Hansen

#11. We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine.

Pierce Brosnan

#12. We must remember we are stewards of what God has provided for us, not owners.

Joyce Meyer

#13. I think civilization is going to get to a point where we suddenly become responsible, stewards of the whole evolutionary process. This requires domains of consciousness, not just levels and frequencies.

Jean Houston

#14. We are really excited about being stewards to the community that is Minecraft.

Satya Nadella

#15. There would be very little point in my exhausting myself and other conservationists themselves in trying to protect animals and habitats if we weren't at the same time raising young people to be better stewards.

Jane Goodall

#16. Through work, we serve, minister, and become God's stewards on the earth.

Sunday Adelaja

#17. We are at best but stewards of what we falsely call our own; yet avarice is so insatiable that it is not in the power of liberality to content it.

Seneca The Younger

#18. Discipline is "the systematic management of your life to prepare and position you for your divine design." Discipline and stewardship are one and the same. Discipline brings order to life and is absolutely required if we're going to be good stewards of the call to leadership.

Kent Ingle

#19. We are only stewards of the world's resources. They are not ours; they are God's. When we find our security in Him, we can then give generously from what He has entrusted to us. This is our Christian duty.

Billy Graham

#20. What sort of stewards of the future planet will today's digital children be?

Diane Ackerman

#21. Some of us believe humanity should be in divine partnership with nature, some people believe that man has been given by God the right to have dominion over nature. But since even they say that we should be good stewards, that right there should be the common ground.

Marianne Williamson

#22. As stewards of God's creation, we are called to make the earth a beautiful garden for the human family.

Pope Francis

#23. As citizens of the United States, we are stewards of this magnificent thing called democracy.

Marianne Williamson

#24. 'Economics for Everybody' begins with understanding God's principles for organizing His creation and what that means for us as creatures and stewards.

R.C. Sproul

#25. In the same way that the stewards of the Titanic were more concerned about the unemptied ashtrays on the bar than the enormous hole in the side of the ship which was letting in zillions of gallons of water, I too was worrying about the unimportant and ignoring the vital.

Marian Keyes

#26. God is the owner of all things, and we are simply his stewards.

Randy Alcorn

#27. We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#28. With human beings, a natural death was a death with dignity. But animals were innocents, and as their stewards, people owed them mercy.

Dean Koontz

#29. 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

#30. We are a nation of faith, and we are stewards of God's world.

Mike Huckabee

#31. Good leaders understand that they are stewards. They must find the best people they can, giving them the opportunity to join in the journey developing them, and encouraging them to reach their potential. But they must hold on to people lightly. Those who start with you seldom finish with you.

John C. Maxwell

#32. If we have understanding, we can oversee the resources God entrusted to our care. And the wiser we are, the more effective we will be as stewards.

James Robison

#33. Servants think like stewards, not owners.

Rick Warren

#34. Our lives are like the talents in the parable of the three stewards. It is something that has been given to us for the time being and we have the opportunity and privilege of doing our best with this precious gift.

George Vaillant

#35. Progress is dependent upon a productive and dynamic tension between institutionalism and insurrectionism. Insurrectionists keep our institutions honest. Insurrection us are stewards of our collective public life.

Christopher Hayes

#36. We're gonna be using American produced, American energy that will create jobs in the United States, will create a far more secure source of energy for us and will make us better environmental stewards because we will be contributing less to climate change and burning much cleaner fuel.

Ray Mabus

#37. When executives lead as teachers, stewards, and designers, they fill roles that are much more subtle and long-term than those of power-wielding hierarchical leaders.

Peter Senge

#38. Our planet is not fragile at its own timescale and we, pitiful latecomers in the last microsecond of our planetary year, are stewards of nothing in the long run.

Stephen Jay Gould

#39. Christians should seek the best information available about the earth over which we have been appointed stewards.

Douglas J. Moo

#40. So our task as stewards of the word begins and ends in love. Loving language means cherishing it for its beauty, precision, power to enhance understanding, power to name, power to heal. And it means using words as instruments of love.

Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

#41. The future of our fragile, beautiful planet home is in our hands. As God's family, we are stewards of God's creation. We can be wantonly irresponsible, or we can be caring and compassionate. God says, "I have set before you life and death ... Choose life."

Desmond Tutu

#42. These stewards of the company way are the intellectual and emotional foundation of the organization.

Reid Hoffman

#43. Nature surrounds us, from parks and backyards to streets and alleyways. Next time you go out for a walk, tread gently and remember that we are both inhabitants and stewards of nature in our neighbourhoods.

David Suzuki

#44. There can be no stewardship without stewards.

John Jay Jackson Jr.

#45. I want to challenge all of you as people of deep conscience, people who are environment stewards of the earth and oceans ... By changing what you eat, you will change the entire contract between the human species and the natural world.

James Cameron

#46. We need the kind of leadership exemplified by President Kennedy to just do it! But we must do it as good stewards, aggressively exerting control over the moon. We can best do this by going there.

Wilson Greatbatch

#47. The motto of the old order in the City of London was, 'My word is my bond,' but the financial crisis revealed a culture quite alien to that heritage. The stewards of people's money were revealed to have been speculators with it.

Gordon Brown

#48. Our land-healing ministry really is about cultivating relationships: between the people, the loving stewards, and the ecology of a place, what I call the environmental umbilical that we're nurturing here.

Joel Salatin

#49. We can possess nothing - no property and no person ... It is God who owns everything, and we are but stewards of His property during the brief time we are on earth.

Billy Graham

#50. we never own the work of God. We are simply stewards of it.

Christine Caine

#51. Let us be good stewards of the Earth we inherited. All of us have to share the Earth's fragile ecosystems and precious resources, and each of us has a role to play in preserving them. If we are to go on living together on this earth, we must all be responsible for it.

Kofi Annan

#52. The future of our children is a trust we have been given. To conserve and grow, not to squander wastefully on needless excesses. The earth is a trust, to protect and to honor. Our home, our livelihood, our future rests in the quality of our stewardship. Let us become better stewards.

Helen Caldicott

#53. Some environmentalists have had the feeling that Indians are not good stewards. I've always been critical of that.

Stewart Udall

#54. Despite what you may have been taught about Indians or Africans or ancient Celts, poor people are terrible stewards of their environment. For instance, if my kid were starving to death, I would happily feed her fresh panda.

Jonah Goldberg

#55. There is too little public recognition of how much we all depend upon farmers as stewards of our soil, water and wildlife resources.

John F. Kennedy

#56. How would it change the manner in which we live if we viewed ourselves as stewards of God's gifts, rather than owners of the people and things in our lives?

Anonymous

#57. Let your first business be to perform your duties at home. But, inasmuch as you are wise stewards, you will find time for social duties ... By seeking to perform every duty you will find that your capacity will increase, and you will be astonished at what you can accomplish.

Eliza R. Snow

#58. Good stewardship of the environment is not just a personal responsibility, it is a public value ... Our duty is to use the land well, and sometimes not to use it at all. This is our responsibility as citizens, but more than that, it is our calling as stewards of the earth.

George W. Bush

#59. I tried to talk to the ref but it is easier to get to see the Pope. If I'm in London again and I get mugged I hope the same number of people turn up to protect me. There were six police, four stewards and even a UN peace observer out there.

Gordon Strachan

#60. Bells rang, the stewards rushed forward, and - like rye shaken together in a shovel - the guests who had been scattered about in different rooms came together and crowded in the large drawing-room by the door of the ballroom.

Leo Tolstoy

#61. Christians should be good managers and stewards of God's riches

Sunday Adelaja

#62. Let this be our rule for goodwill and helpfulness, that whenever we are able to assist others we should behave as stewards who must someday give an account of ourselves.

John Calvin

#63. There have been times of late when I have had to hold on to one text with all my might: "It is required in stewards that a man may be found faithful." Praise God, it does not say "sucessful.

Amy Carmichael

#64. For I cannot think that GOD Almighty ever made them [women] so delicate, so glorious creatures; and furnished them with such charms, so agreeable and so delightful to mankind; with souls capable of the same accomplishments with men: and all, to be only Stewards of our Houses, Cooks, and Slaves.

Daniel Defoe

#65. The idea that humans are yet intelligent enough to serve as stewards of the Earth is among the most hubristic ever.

James E. Lovelock

#66. A lot of people look for you to change. Everything has stayed the same. Financially, this is God's money, and my wife and I are just stewards of it.

Andre Ward

#67. Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor.

Alexander Pope

#68. "Being a good steward" and "placing your hope in" is not the same thing.

Matt Chandler

#69. No one else can steward the fire inside of you because only you are in charge of it.

Danny Silk

#70. The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society, which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope.

David R. Brower

#71. Be a thrifty steward of thy goods.

Sophocles

#72. Let everyone regard himself as the steward of God in all things which he possesses.

John Calvin

#73. God is the ultimate steward. He even turns our tears into the seeds of a hope filled future.

Bill Johnson

#74. If I have enough for myself and family, I am steward only for myself; if I have more, I am but a steward of that abundance for others.

George Herbert

#75. The goal for most people should not be to feel better, but to get better at feeling.

Shannon L. Alder

#76. The thing about commuting internationally is that you have to be a lawyer or an airline steward to do it successfully.

Joan Juliet Buck