{"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Randy Alcorn","tags":["christianity","comfort","disciple","discipline","faith","give","giving","keep","obedience","share","stewardship","trust"],"id":9024,"author_id":"Randy+Alcorn"},{"text":"Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipw.","author":"Guy de Maupassant","tags":["duties","government","leadership","peace","responsibility","shipwreck","steering","stewardship","war"],"id":13838,"author_id":"Guy+de+Maupassant"},{"text":"Whenever we have excess, giving should be our natural response. It should be the automatic decision, the obvious thing to do in light of Scripture and human need.","author":"Randy Alcorn","tags":["excess","giving","greed","need","scripture","sharing","stewardship"],"id":16019,"author_id":"Randy+Alcorn"},{"text":"...Often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience.","author":"Andy Stanley","tags":["comfort-zone","faith","financial-freedom","giving","promise","sacrifice","stewardship"],"id":28489,"author_id":"Andy+Stanley"},{"text":"Charity fits the economy of scarcity, because it supports the blasphemous myth that the rich are rich because they deserve to be, and their riches are theirs to deal with as they please. With such charity, we are not worthy to tell the story of manna in the wilderness, to pretend to eat together at the Lord’s Supper, or claim the Year of Jubilee as our own.","author":"Michael Rhodes","tags":["discipleship","materialism","stewardship"],"id":31604,"author_id":"Michael+Rhodes"},{"text":"We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We did not ask for this role, but we cannot abjure it. We may not be suited to it, but here we are.","author":"Stephen Jay Gould","tags":["ecology","intelligence","life","science","stewardship"],"id":42934,"author_id":"Stephen+Jay+Gould"},{"text":"...The care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it, and to foster its renewal, is our only legitimate hope.","author":"Wendell Berry","tags":["care","earth","nature","responsibility","stewardship"],"id":43089,"author_id":"Wendell+Berry"},{"text":"What you fear most will determine whether you merely save for the future or give for the future.","author":"Andy Stanley","tags":["fear","giving","saving","sharing","stewardship"],"id":43902,"author_id":"Andy+Stanley"},{"text":"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.","author":"Wendell Berry","tags":["creation","stewardship","vocation"],"id":49879,"author_id":"Wendell+Berry"},{"text":"Mankind has a divine duty, to be stewardship of the natural resources.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["aquatic","aquatic-life","divine-grace","duty","duty-and-attitude","duty-loyalty","mankind","mankind-goodness","mankind-is-one","mankind-nature","natural-resouces","stewardship"],"id":63003,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":103,"pages":11,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}