Stewardship Quotes

1. Stewardship Quotes

2. The only investments I ever made which have paid constantly increasing dividends are those I have given to the Lord’s work. Pastors do their congregation a great service by helping those in the church understand God’s truth about money, time and giving. • J. L. Kraft. Founder Kraft Foods

3. Tithing is the heaven-taught method of giving body and expression to Christian love and sympathy. • John Ross, 1901 • The Lord’s Portion

4. A checkbook is a theological document ... It tells who and what you worship. Billy Graham

5. It is a sad fact that while great things are being done in the world by individual Christians, the potency of those forces are largely lost because the rank and file are living organized lives with no distinct acknowledgement of their stewardship relation to God, the Father-Owner. The faithful steward alone is lacking at this crucial hour. • Frederick Agar, 1920 • Stewardship of Life

6. I have held many things in my hands and I have lost them all. But whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess. • Martin Luther

7. According to Webster, a steward • is a person who manages the affairs of a household as an estate for the owner. In a biblical sense, a steward is a manager of God’s affairs on planet earth. • Stan Toler

8. God demands our tithes and deserves our offerings. • Stephen Olford

9. Dedication statement in the 1922 book, The Message of Stewardship: • To those Christian men and women of America who have stood and are standing with all of their resources of personality and possessions in the battle for the Christian conquest of the world and for peace. • Ralph Cushman

10. If God is your partner, make your plans big! • D. L. Moody

11. You can’t fake stewardship. Your checkbook reveals all that you really believe about stewardship. A lifestyle could be written from a checkbook. • Ron Blue

12. God has given us two hands – one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing. • Billy Graham

13. I have watched 100,000 families over my years of investment counseling. I always saw greater prosperity and happiness among those families who tithed than among those who didn’t. Tithing is simply an outward expression of spiritual growth leads to material growth. • Sir John Templeton

14. The most important aspect of tithing and stewardship is not the raising of money for the church, but the development of devoted Christians. • Fred M. Wood

15. The gift of 10% has precedence all the way back to the time of Abraham. Tithing is a guide to giving for today’s Christian. • Wayne Watts

16. A community of Christians (stewards) is not a series of clocks in a jeweler’s window, each with its own tick and time, in a busy individualism, but like the clocks in a modern office building, regulated by the master, central clock on the main floor. • Silas Evans, 1921 • The Currency of the Invisible

17. I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. C. S. Lewis

18. Christian stewardship is more than the management of things; it is the refusal to let things manage us. • James A. Lollis

19. I know that God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that he didn’t trust me so much. • Mother Teresa

20. Stewardship of money is only a fraction of our full Christian stewardship. The rich young ruler could say, “All these things have I kept from my youth up,” but Jesus said to him, “one thing thou lackest.” The call for stewardship living is not fractional, but a calling where self and substance both come under the rule of biblical stewardship principles. • Charles Cook, 1923 • The Larger Stewardship

21. There are three conversions necessary:the conversion of the heart, mind and the purse. • Martin Luther

22. When a man becomes a true Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy, and prosperous. Now if that man, whilst he gets all he can and saves all he can, does NOT give all he can, I have more hope of Judas Iscariot than • of that man! • John Wesley

23. The greatness of a church is determined not by what it takes in, but by what it sends out. • Talmadge Johnson

24. If the church has a need, God has pre-arranged supply to meet that need through His people. • Terry N. Toler

25. Give as you would to the Master • If you met His searching look • Give as you would of your substance • If His hand the offering took • Charles Wm. Harshman, 1905 • Christian Giving

26. Praise your congregation for their faithfulness in giving. • Stan Toler

27. Never “take” the offering.Rather, “receive” the offering. Make offering time a time of celebration! • Stan Toler

28. New conditions of need in the world are calling for new standards of stewardship in the church, or rather, for new applications of the divine standards of giving as well as of living and serving. No wonder, then, that God has given stewardship so important a place in the training of the human race. • David McConaughy, 1918 • Money: The Acid Test

29. Here’s a humorous illustration ... • New offering plate for churches: • This ingenious invention receives gifts of a dollar or more on a plush cushion with silent graciousness. But when half-dollars are dropped in, it rings a bell; when quarters are given, it blows a whistle; when dimes are slipped in, it fires a shot. But when someone refuses to give, it takes their picture.

30. We are not here to develop a spiritual life of our own, or to enjoy a quiet spiritual retreat. We are here to have the full realization of Jesus Christ, for the purpose of building his body. • Oswald Chambers

31. Tithing is not a matter of money, it is an issue of trust. John Maxwell

32. “One more revival is needed, the revival of Christian stewardship; the consecration of the money power of the church of God; and when that revival comes, the kingdom of God will come in a day; you can no more prevent it than you can hold back the tides of the ocean.” • Horace Bushnell in • American Tithers • James Sayler, 1918

33. The church ceases to be spiritual when it becomes self-seeking, only interested in the development of its own organization. • Oswald Chambers

34. Our lifetime on earth is a dot and from that little dot extends a line that goes out into all eternity. So if you are smart, are you going to live for the dot or for the line? – • Randy Alcorn

35. “When I try to accomplish by human means what can be done only by spiritual means, I embezzle God’s authority.” • Fred Smith, Sr.

36. A disciple realizes that it is his Lord’s honor that is at stake in his life, not his own honor. • Oswald Chambers

37. Pharisaism is the culture of orthodoxy which destroys the kingdom of grace. • – Ben Maxson

38.  What is the single greatest deterrent to generous giving? I believe the answer is the illusion or belief that this earth is our home. – • Randy Alcorn 

39. Spiritual leaders do not seek to discover the will of the majority, but seek to lift the majority to discover the will of God. • – Ben Maxson

40. To comprehend and enjoy God is the highest exercise of the powers of man. • Ellen White

41. "The way each day will look to you, all starts with who you are looking to.“ • Bill Bright

42. The lasting value of our public service for God is measured by the depth of the intimacy of our private times of fellowship and oneness with Him. • Oswald Chambers

43. Our agenda is to fix the world until it can properly take care of us. God's agenda is to bring all things together in Christ until every knee bows before him. • Larry Crabb

44. We Christians cannot talk about loving God until we come to grips with our raging passion for ourselves. • Larry Crabb

45. Great leaders inspire us to go places we would never go on our own, and to attempt things we never thought • we had in us. • Hanz Finzel

46. “The one common thread of courageous biblical leaders: They trusted God more than their circumstances.” • John Maxwell

47. “Organizations have this nasty habit of becoming institutions. And institutions have this great tendency to fade into irrelevance. Movements become monuments. Inspiration becomes institution.” • Hanz Finzel

48. A person is simply a slave for obeying, unless behind his obedience is the recognition of a holy God. • Oswald Chambers

49. “No executive ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective.” • Peter Drucker

50. “Unless the laborer in God's cause can gain the confidence of those for whom he is laboring, he can do but little good.” • E. G. White