Compared to the rest of the world, it's like we're living in Disneyland.
David A. ServantStichwörter: truth wealth christianity poverty stewardship disneyland
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 A. ServantStichwörter: money wealth heaven hell stewardship radical reward
The means to laying up treasure in heaven is by giving to the poor.
David A. ServantStichwörter: money christianity god heaven stewardship treasure
Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck."
[On Water]
Stichwörter: peace war responsibility government stewardship leadership duties shipwreck steering
Let me outline briefly as I can what seem to me the characteristics of these opposite kinds of mind. I conceive a strip-miner to be a model exploiter, and as a model nurturer I take the old-fashioned idea or ideal of a farmer. The exploiter is a specialist, an expert; the nurturer is not. The standard of the exploiter is efficiency; the standard of the nurturer is care. The exploiter's goal is money, profit; the nurturer's goal is health -- his land's health, his own, his family's, his community's, his country's. Whereas the exploiter asks of a piece of land only how much and how quickly it can be made to produce, the nurturer asks a question that is much more complex and difficult: What is its carrying capacity? (That is: How much can be taken from it without diminishing it? What can it produce dependably for an indefinite time?) The exploiter wishes to earn as much as possible by as little work as possible; the nurturer expects, certainly, to have a decent living from his work, but his characteristic wish is to work as well as possible. The competence of the exploiter is in organization; that of the nurturer is in order -- a human order, that is, that accommodates itself both to other order and to mystery. The exploiter typically serves an institution or organization; the nurturer serves land, household, community, place. The exploiter thinks in terms of numbers, quantities, "hard facts"; the nurturer in terms of character, condition, quality, kind.
Wendell BerryStichwörter: revolution transition ecology stewardship
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 GoodierStichwörter: money time stewardship generosity giving give giving-away giving-love
If you want your prayers answered, you get off your knees and do the one thing you’re praying someone else will do for you.
Shannon L. AlderStichwörter: strength love courage bravery determination prayer responsibility stewardship choices pray fearless ownership accountable
The divine mandate to use the world justly and charitably, then, defines every person's moral predicament as that of a steward. But this predicament is hopeless and meaningless unless it produces an appropriate discipline: stewardship. And stewardship is hopeless and meaningless unless it involves long-term courage, perseverance, devotion, and skill. This skill is not to be confused with any accomplishment or grace of spirit or of intellect. It has to do with everyday proprieties in the practical use and care of the created things - with "right livelihood.
Wendell BerryStichwörter: vocation creation stewardship
We depend upon other creatures and survive by their deaths. To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation. When we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament. When we do it ignorantly, greedily, clumsily, destructively, it is a desecration. In such desecration we condemn ourselves to spiritual and moral loneliness, and others to want.
Wendell BerryStichwörter: creation stewardship
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