John Calvin Quotes

If you can't look after something in your care, you have no right to keep it.

All power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise.

Nobody owns the money he/she possesses. They hold it just as a trustee.

If God was the owner, I was the manager. I needed to adopt a steward's mentality toward the assets He had entrusted - not given - to me. A steward manages assets for the owner's benefit. The steward carries no sense of entitlement to the assets he manages. It's his job to find out what the owner wants done with his assets, then carry out his will.

What will we answer to Him about that child, that old father and mother, because they are His creation, they are children of God.

Don't take anything from me because I'll track it down.

The earth is the Lord's. Psalm 24 basically says the earth is God's property. We have been given the privilege and responsibility of living on earth to see it isn't ruined.

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

I am responsible only to God and history.

I am the guardian of power, not its owner.

The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.

When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

Government is a trust from God, and verily government will be at the day of resurrection a cause of inquiry, unless he who hath taken it be worthy of it and have acted justly and done good.

Some call it power; I prefer to call it responsibility.

Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.

Manage what belongs to you, but not what belongs to others.

In the Biblical word view, God is regarded as the owner of all things and is therefore empowered to impose whatever conditions he wishes on the use of his property by human beings. Many of these conditions involve, for example, care for the poor and indigent, but precisely these are legal obligations imposed by a rightful owner on his tenants, they are no more discretionary than say, the payment of debts. The Hebrew Bible develops a theory of property according to which there is one and only one owner.

The land is Mine.

What I did, I did after very full deliberation, and under a heavy and solemn sense of responsibility. I can only trust in God that I have made no mistake.

For you must both of you bear in mind that you remain still, as really and truly as ever, your master's property, and therefore it will be justly expected, both by God and man, that you behave and conduct yourselves as obedient and faithful servants.

Every generation inherits a world it never made; and, as it does so, it automatically becomes the trustee of that world for those who come after. In due course, each generation makes its own accounting to its children.

If you misuse the things you have been given, God has the ability to take your talent away. That's the way it is for me and that is why a lot of religious people are grateful to their God.

I kind of like to be one of the guardians of the game.