Stewardship Quotes

Land is not something you inherit from your parents. It is something you borrow from your children.

In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught.

Money is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it. You ought because you can do more good with it than you could do without it. Money printed your Bible, money builds your churches, money sends your missionaries, and money pays your preachers, and you would not have many of them, either, if you did not pay them.

Much is expected from those to whom much is given.

When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.

Nothing was made by God for man to spoil or destroy.

A good king is a public servant.

The world is not given by our fathers but borrowed from our children.

God gave the world to men in common; but since he gave it them for their benefit and the greatest conveniences of life they were capable to draw from it, it cannot be supposed that he meant it should always remain common and uncultivated.

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

What have you done with the garden that was entrusted to you?

Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.

God has given us two hands - one to receive with and the other to give with. We are cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing. If we fail to fulfill this divine duty and privilege we have missed the meaning of Christianity.

My take on tithing in America is that it's a middle-class way of robbing God. Tithing to the church and spending the rest on your family is not a Christian goal. It's a diversion. The real issue is: How shall we use God's trust fund-namely, all we have-for His glory? In a world with so much misery, what lifestyle should we call our people to live? What example are we setting?

If we sleep more than is needful for the refreshment of the body, it is wasting the time with which the Lord has entrusted us as a talent, to be used for his glory, for our own benefit, and the benefit of the saints and the unbelievers around us.

We must now become not just takers from the ocean, but caretakers of it.

Leadership involves not so much marching gloriously at the head of a parade as paying quietly for the parade permit and the cleanup afterward. Leading the world means acting not as its Commander-In-Chief but as its concierge.

Wyoming is a special place: Where our farmers and ranchers rise before dawn and work until night to feed our nation. Where our coal miners and oil field workers produce the energy that powers America's homes and businesses, and where our families are guided by faith, know the value of hard work, and deeply love our land.

We are here to serve our citizens and not our ambitions.

The Administration of Government, is nothing else but the Attendance of the Trustees of the People upon the Interest and Affairs of the People

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

The only legacy I seek is the one that any grandparent seeks - that is, to hand off our nation... our fields and our farms to the next generation in better shape than we found it.

Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.

I want to lead a government humble enough to know its place.

We have been given the trust and goodwill of New Zealanders. I do not take that trust for granted, and I never will.