Top 100 Quotes About Stewardship

#1. In the early days of the Mormon Church, stewardship toward the land was a priority. It was a matter of survival in the desert.

Terry Tempest Williams

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#2. Stewardship is like that. I won't answer for the way another Christian mismanaged money. I won't be charged with another person's irresponsible consumption. Nor will I get credit for how another faith community shared or sacrificed luxuries for the marginalized. I'll answer for my choices.

Jen Hatmaker

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#3. 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

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#4. Not to give to those in need what is to you superfluous is akin to fraud.

Saint Augustine

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#5. 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.

Philip Sherrard

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#6. We should use all our money for the Lord. This is, we should use all our money in a way that God would approve. In that sense, all of our money is to be given to the Lord. Stewardship is to be total, not partial.

Wayne Mack

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

John Calvin

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#8. Money is not the only commodity that is fun to give. We can give time, we can give our expertise, we can give our love or simply give a smile. What does that cost? The point is, none of us can ever run out of something worthwhile to give.

Steve Goodier

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#9. Messages focused on miracles has eliminated stewardship messages.

Sunday Adelaja

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#10. There can be no stewardship without stewards.

John Jay Jackson Jr.

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#11. Hoarding is both unnecessary and an affront to God, who is perfectly capable of providing abundantly for those who trust in him.

Richard B. Hays

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#12. Since my money is God's money, every spending decision I make is a spiritual decision.

John Hagee

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#13. One of the things that defines a TEDster is you've taken your passion, and you've turned it into stewardship. You actually put action to the issues you care about.

Omar Ahmad

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#14. We're not very good when we're spending other people's money.

Jason Jennings

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

Bill Hybels

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#16. The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.

J. Richard Clarke

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#17. God can have our money and not have our hearts, but He cannot have our hearts without having our money.

R. Kent Hughes

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#18. Give naught, get same. Give much, get same.

Malcolm Forbes

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#19. In our good works nothing is our own.

John Calvin

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#20. Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
[On Water]

Guy De Maupassant

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#21. If I try to make only enough money for my family' immediate needs, it may violate Scripture ... Even though earning just enough to meet the needs of my family may seem nonmaterialistic, it's actually selfish when I could earn enough to care for others as well.

Randy Alcorn

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#22. Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.

Bernard Of Clairvaux

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#23. Unless we learn how to humbly tell each other our giving stories, our churches will not learn to give.

Randy Alcorn

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#24. Becoming a good steward is more important than you getting your own breakthrough.

Sunday Adelaja

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#25. Christians are God's delivery people, through whom he does his giving to a needy world. We are conduits of God's grace to others. Our eternal investment portfolio should be full of the most strategic kingdom-building projects to which we can disburse God's funds.

Randy Alcorn

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#26. A minister's (cabinet member's) function was not to DO the work but to see that it got done.

Barbara W. Tuchman

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#27. The principles of stewardship and servant leadership challenge you to look at leadership differently. Consider these values.

Archibald Marwizi

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#28. 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

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

J. Vernon McGee

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#30. The fastest way to success is stewardship.

Sunday Adelaja

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#31. In the midst of prosperity, the challenge for believers is to handle wealth in such a way that it acts as a blessing, not a curse.

Randy Alcorn

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#32. When then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer sued me in 2003 over my stewardship as a director of the New York Stock Exchange, the NYSE's legal expenses were more than $100 million, which made it perhaps the priciest litigation in the state's history.

Kenneth Langone

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

Rick Warren

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#34. Pastors can lead the way in motivating the faithful to wise stewardship of their citizenship responsibilities. Without a healthy culture and civil society, limited government and ordered liberty will be impossible.

Edwin Meese

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#35. The earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations.

Pope John Paul II

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#36. Ithing isn't something I do to clear my conscience so I can do whatever I want with the 90 percent
it also belongs to God! I must seek his direction and permission for whatever I do with the full amount. I may discover that God has different ideas than I do.

Randy Alcorn

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#37. Corona Light has had very faithful stewardship from us from the very beginning in 1989.

Carlos Alvarez

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#38. When someone loves you so much that He dies for you, you can trust that any rewards He promises are going to be good.

David Servant

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#39. A great deal of struggle and sorrow in the world comes from misguided feelings of pride of ownership and possessiveness, versus the humble spirit of stewardship as common temporary inheritors of the great resources of earth.

Bryant McGill

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#40. Here's a scary thought: What if God called you to give beyond your comfort level? Would you be afraid? Would you try to explain it away or dismiss it as impractical? And in the process, would you miss out on a harvest opportunity for which God had explicitly prospered you in the first place?

Andy Stanley

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#41. When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man when he gets all he can and saves all he can, does not give all he can, I have more hope for Judas Iscariot than for that man!

John Wesley

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#42. Success is not what you leave to but what you leave behind

John C. Maxwell

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#43. God has made us to be conduits of his grace. The danger is in thinking the conduit should be lined with gold. It shouldn't. Copper will do.

John Piper

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#44. I had sort of exhausted all the avenues playing in Detroit. So again, through the stewardship of my brother, I ended up in California and went to the Musicians Institute in L.A. I wanted to get better as a player.

Chad Smith

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#45. The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.

Vera Nazarian

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#46. David ran through concrete advantages. And then set aside the practical. The pragmatist was gone, replaced by the poet and mystic.

Geraldine Brooks

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#47. Capital is necessary to the cultivation of esthetic value.

Harold Bloom

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#48. You can recognize women who are grateful to be a daughter of God by their outward appearance. These women understand their stewardship over their bodies and treat them with dignity.

Margaret D. Nadauld

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#49. The greatest lesson you might ever learn in this life is this: It is not about you.

Shannon L. Alder

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#50. The only investment I ever made which has paid consistently increasing dividends is the money I have given to the Lord.

James L. Kraft

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#51. The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.

Salvatore J. Cordileone

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#52. The earth is a loving God's gift to us, and we show our love for His work by practicing good stewardship. - Janet Graham

Gary Chapman

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#53. The message from all quarters is the same: our undisciplined consumption must end. If we continue to gobble up our resources without any regard to stewardship and to spew out our deadly wastes over land, sea, and air, we may well be drawing down the final curtain upon ourselves.

Richard J. Foster

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#54. The first requisite of stewardship is to give ourselves to God. Thus, a logical recognition of God's absolute ownership should follow.

Stephen F Olford

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#55. The means to laying up treasure in heaven is by giving to the poor.

David Servant

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#56. 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.

Jacob Schiff

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#57. I think it's very important to have the stewardship of a company by a family member.

Marie-Chantal Claire

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

John Calvin

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#59. Whoever is gripped by God's spirit turns to his creation with all the interest that comes from God's love.

Eberhard Arnold

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#60. Give God what's right, not what's left!

Adrian Rogers

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#61. 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

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#62. What you fear most will determine whether you merely save for the future or give for the future.

Andy Stanley

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#63. When we practice good delegation - stewardship delegation - we are not simply enabling ourselves to get more done. We are serving others and building them up according to God's own purposes for his people.

Matt Perman

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#64. When Gordon Brown becomes prime minister, the balance sheet that reflects his economic stewardship could look very sickly indeed. He could become Labour's biggest liability, not its most marketable asset.

Vince Cable

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#65. It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire.

Marilynne Robinson

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#66. The way to thrive is to help others thrive; the way to flourish is to help others flourish; the way to fulfill yourself is to spend yourself.

Cornelius Plantinga

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#67. Why does a steward steal? He steals because he's not sure he'll always remain with his master and wants to make his future secure.

Alexandre Dumas

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#68. Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance.

Ban Ki-moon

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#69. How different our standard is from Christ's. We ask how much a man gives. Christ asks how much he keeps.

Andrew Murray

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#70. Lincoln bore down or anything he handled, mastering both the details and the principles.

Richard Brookhiser

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#71. I have been talking nonstop about the symbolism of an edible landscape at the White House. I think it says everything about stewardship of the land and about the nourishment of a nation.

Alice Waters

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#72. The author says one patrician English leader saw his relationship with the populace thusly: He wasn't responsible TO them. He was responsible FOR them. He was responsible for their care.

Barbara W. Tuchman

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

Andy Stanley

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#74. Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to increase our standard of giving. (Look again at 2 Corinthians 8:14 and 9:11).

Randy Alcorn

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#75. The time is coming when each of us will have to give an account of our stewardship

Sunday Adelaja

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#76. You see, what we do with what He gives us determines how much more we will get.

Joshua Stannard

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#77. A disciple does not ask, "How much can I keep?" but, "How much more can I give?" Whenever we start to get comfortable with our level of giving, it's time to raise it again.

Randy Alcorn

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#78. I believe in a sound, strong environmental policy that protects the health of our people and a wise stewardship of our nation's natural resources.

Ronald Reagan

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#79. I am convinced that the devil has caused the subject of giving to stir up resistance and resentment among God's people because he knows there are few ways of spiritual enrichment like the exercise of faithful stewardship.

Stephen F Olford

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#80. A leader must be a good listener. He must be willing to take counsel. He must show a genuine concern and love for those under his stewardship.

James E. Faust

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#81. In losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of creation.

Wendell Berry

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#82. My work at R.E.I. was incredibly fulfilling and rewarding, especially the stewardship elements of it, the ability to connect young people to public lands close to home.

Sally Jewell

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#83. God desires your increase in your leadership, stewardship, relationship, and business

Sunday Adelaja

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#84. Never measure your generosity by what you give, but rather by what you have left.

Fulton J. Sheen

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#85. 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

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#86. 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

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#87. The better you get, the better you better get.

David Allen

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#88. Life will either shrink or expand based on your decision to have courage.

Shannon L. Alder

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#89. As believers, we all have the responsibility to leverage our wealth for kingdom purposes.

Andy Stanley

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#90. To turn the tide of materialism in the Christian community, we desperately need bold models of kingdom-centered living. Despite our need to do it in a way that doesn't glorify people, we must hear each other's stories about giving or else our people will not learn to give.

Randy Alcorn

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#91. Simply because humankind have the power now to meddle or 'manage' or 'exercise stewardship' in every nook and cranny of the world does not mean that we have a right to do so. Even less, the obligation.

Edward Abbey

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#92. 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 others. Anytime we can listen to true self and give the care it requires, we do it not only for ourselves, but for the many others whose lives we touch.

Parker J. Palmer

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#93. The question is not, how much of what is mine do I give to others. The question is, how much of what is God's do I reserve for myself. The answer we give is a faith issue, a stewardship issue.

William Avery

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#94. Stewardship means to consciously take up our cultural power, investing it intentionally among the seemingly powerless, putting our power at their disposal to enable them to cultivate and create.

Andy Crouch

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#95. God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving.

Randy Alcorn

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#96. The very metaphor Paul chooses for this decisive moment in his argument shows that what he has in mind is not the unmaking of creation or simply its steady development, but the drastic and dramatic birth of new creation from the womb of the old.

N. T. Wright

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

D. Denise Dianaty

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#98. Nature does require her times of preservation.

William Shakespeare

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#99. Who so hath his mind on taking, hath it no more on what he taketh.

Michel De Montaigne

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#100. Mankind has a divine duty, to be stewardship of the natural resources.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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