Quotes on Stewardship

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.

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.

Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can't persist much longer. If it does, then we won't.

The only thing that really matters now is whether man can climb up to a higher moral level, to a higher plane of consciousness, in order to be equal to the superhuman powers which the fallen angels have played into his hands. But he can make no progress until he becomes very much better acquainted with his own nature.

Success is not what you leave to but what you leave behind

Once plants and animals were raised together on the same farm - which therefore neither produced unmanageable surpluses of manure, to be wasted and to pollute the water supply, nor depended on such quantities of commercial fertilizer. The genius of American farm experts is very well demonstrated here: they can take a solution and divide it neatly into two problems.

I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

Giving is more than a responsibility-it is a privilege; more than an act of obedience-it is evidence of our faith.

The best investment with the least risk and the greatest dividend is giving.

Proportion thy charity to the strength of thine estate, lest God proportion thine estate to the weakness of thy charity. Let the lips of the poor be the trumpet of thy gift, lest in seeking applause, thou lose thy reward. Nothing is more pleasing to God than an open hand and a closed mouth.

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

I was once young and now I am old, but not once have I been witness to God's failure to supply my need when first I had given for the furtherance of His work. He has never failed in His promise, so I cannot fail in my service to Him.

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.

If we believe heaven to be our country, it is better for us to transmit our wealth thither, than to retain it here, where we may lose it by a sudden removal.

The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.

Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?

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.

I am large, I contain multitudes