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Recovery is the ability to see things with clarity, "freed from the drab blur of greatness or familiarity – from possessiveness.

Since the debt limit simply accommodates debt that has already been incurred, raising it should, in theory, be perfunctory. But politicians have found it a useful shibboleth for showing their fealty fiscal discipline, even as they vote to ratify the debts their previous actions have a beginning the country to pay. The symbol of railing against debt has proven politically beneficial, even if not substantively meaningful.

Some take pains to be biblical, but many [Christian financial teachers, writers, investment counselors, and seminar leaders] simply parrot their secular colleagues. Other than beginning and ending with prayer, mentioning Christ, and sprinkling in some Bible verses, there's no fundamental difference. They reinforce people's materialist attitudes and lifestyles. They suggest a variety of profitable plans in which people can spend or stockpile the bulk of their resources. In short, to borrow a term from Jesus, some Christian financial experts are helping people to be the most successful 'rich fools' they can be.

Sixteen of the thirty-eight parables of Jesus deal with money. One out of ten verses in the New Testament deals with that subject. Scripture offers about five hundred verses on prayer, fewer than five hundred on faith, and over two thousand on money. The believer's attitude toward money and possessions is determinative.

Stewardship is the hallmark of life on earth.

The better you get, the better you better get.

The time is coming when each of us will have to give an account of our stewardship

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.

To be committed means to omit all your complaints and carry on doing what needs to be done.

We are all bound to work in the vineyard where God is the husbandman. We have all been given our little vineyard, but the way in which we cultivate it is of great importance for the prosperity of our neighbour's vineyard... In fact all our vineyards are a part of the Lord's great vineyard, the Holy Church, and we are all bound to work here too.

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.

We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the present, the future will have received full justice from us. A good future is implicit in the soils, forests, grasslands, marshes, deserts, mountains, rivers, lakes, and oceans that we have now, and in the good things of human culture that we have now; the only valid "futurology" available to us is to take care of those things. We have no need to contrive and dabble at "the future of the human race"; we have the same pressing need that we have always had - to love, care for, and teach our children. (pg. 73, "Feminism, the Body, and the Machine")

We're not very good when we're spending other people's money.

We should remember Christ's words, 'Let nothing be wasted,' when we look in our refrigerators and garbage cans and garages.

we were not born the same and we are all not born with the same abilities and capabilities, but no matter what seed God has given to us, be it small or big, He expects a good returns from us in the end and we must endeavor to be good stewards and managers of our abilities and capabilities regardless of where we live and the challenges we face!

we were not born the same, we are all not born with the same abilities and capabilities, but no matter what seed God has given to us, be it small or big, He expects a good returns from us in the end and we must endeavor to be good stewards and managers of our abilities and capabilities regardless of where we live and the challenges we face!

Whatever you do to the animals, you do to yourself.

Why does a steward steal? He steals because he's not sure he'll always remain with his master and wants to make his future secure.

The spirit is willing but the body is weak Lead us then our Savoir that we may not slumber Oh Jehovah! Oh Jehovah! Thy strength we beseech to get to the end So we may render a good account of our arduous journey to the end The spirit is willing but the body is weak Lead us then our Savoir that we may not slumber Well done, good and faithful servants you shall say Unto they that shall be faithful with a few things in their days. Come and share your Master’s happiness you shall say Unto they that diligently made their hay in the day. Oh Jehovah! Oh Jehovah! Grant us Thy power to be faithful in our days! The spirit is willing but the body is weak. Lead us then our Savoir that we may not slumber. Certain paths we know seem leading to your throne. But there is only one path to Thy throne we yearn to know; The path of our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus! Come to me all you who grow weary He exclaims! Easy is His yoke; lighter is His burden! Our hearts and minds; our burden! The spirit is willing but the body is weak. Lead us then our Savoir that we may not slumber. The end draws nearer and nearer as we take steps to the end. Many are the things we need to do before we get to the end. But many are the things that take our attention as we journey to the end. A heart of understanding oh Jehovah we beseech; that we may do all things pleasant to Thee with understanding. The spirit is willing but the body is weak. Lead us then our Savoir that we may not slumber.

You are no longer a boy, and one of the first duties which a man owes to his friends and to society is to live within his income.

You are serving someone for the rest of your life, not knowing a time must come when you must also be served.

You see, what we do with what He gives us determines how much more we will get.

And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.

Dearest Lord, teach me to be generous; teach me to serve you as you deserve; to give and not to count the cost.

Don't tell me you're trusting God until you trust Him with your pocketbook.

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.

Genesis 1...was designed to reflect God, both to reflect God back to God in worship and to reflect God into the rest of creation in stewardship.

When someone loves you so much that He dies for you, you can trust that any rewards He promises are going to be good.

The means to laying up treasure in heaven is by giving to the poor.

I owe a lot to my dad, just for having provided the wrestling business for us to get into.

I am supposed to owe the government something like $100 million. I couldn't squeeze out a dime.

I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance.

In the time one is given, the steward must make the most of the talents one is given by the Lord.

Leadership is stewardship, it's temporary and you're accountable!

Not to give to those in need what is to you superfluous is akin to fraud.

Learning isn't a luxury; it's a stewardship issue

Stewardship isn't a subcategory of the Christian life. Stewardship is the Christian life. After all, what is stewardship except that God has entrusted to us life, time, talents, money, possessions, family, and his grace? In each case, he evaluates how we regard what he has entrusted to us and what we do with it.

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

... the way to thrive is to help others thrive; the way to flourish is to help others flourish; the way to fulfill yourself is to spend yourself.

The only right stewardship is that which is tested by the rule of love.

There is a price to be paid for fabricating around us a society which is as artifical and as mechanized as our own, and this is that we can exist in it only on condition that we adapt ourselves to it. This is our punishment.

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

The tithe is a wonderful goal but a terrible place to stop.

The very metaphor Paul chooses for this decisive moment in his argument shows that what he has in mind is not the unmaking of creation or simply its steady development, but the drastic and dramatic birth of new creation from the womb of the old.

We must strive to become good ancestors.

We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.

We owe our success to them, and also to the fact that, as the saying goes, two "Eds" are better than one.

A faithful steward loves God first.

Caretaking is the utmost spiritual and physical responsibility of our time, and perhaps that stewardship is finally our place in the web of life, our work, the solution to the mystery that we are. There are already so many holes in the universe that will never again be filled, and each of them forces us to question why we permitted such loss, such tearing away at the fabric of life, and how we will live with our planet in the future.

A leader must be a good listener. He must be willing to take counsel. He must show a genuine concern and love for those under his stewardship.