quotes tagged with 'stewardship' 
Through study of the scriptures and the teachings of our modern prophets, it appears that our first and most basic stewardship is our body. To acquire a body was one of the main purposes of our coming to earth, and we are then to use this body as a divine instrument to perfect and train the spirit until the spirit has the full control and mastery of it under the direction of the Holy Spirit. If I do not honor the stewardship over my own flesh, how could I possibly honor my stewardship as a husband or wife, of father or mother?
Fathers, yours is an eternal calling from which you are never released. ...a father’s calling is eternal, and its importance transcends time. It is a calling for both time and eternity.
Author: Ezra Taft Benson, Source: “To the Fathers in Israel,” Ensign, Nov 1987, 48If worthy, we are entitled to receive revelations for ourselves, parents for their children, and members of the Church in their callings. But the right of revelation for others does not extend beyond our own stewardship.
Author: James E. Faust, Source: “Communion with the Holy Spirit,” Ensign, Mar 2002, 2–7Learning to think like a wise steward as opposed to thinking like a selfish owner is a significant step toward understanding how liabilities can be used productively. Since nothing can ever be technically yours, the goal becomes to make the best use of every resource you have access to, because you understand that you will be held accountable for your productivity, or lack thereof.
Author: Garrett B. Gunderson, Source: Killing Sacred CowsYou can gain and lead the affections of the people, but you cannot scare them, nor whip them, nor burn them to do right against their wills. The human family will die to gratify their wills. Then learn to rightly direct those wills, and you can direct the influence and power of the people."
Author: Brigham Young, Source: Journal of Discourses 8:363There are but few men that know how to govern in temporal things; fewer still who know how to control the feelings of the people, how to guide the power of any kingdom that was ever organized on the earth."
Author: Brigham Young, Source: Journal of Discourses4:267 You are here commencing anew. The soil, the air, the water are all pure and healthy. Do not suffer them to become polluted with wickedness. Strive to preserve the elements from being contaminated by the filthy, wicked conduct and sayings of those who pervert the intelligence God has bestowed upon the human family.
Author: Brigham Young, Source: Journal of Discourses 8:79But when I review the performance of this people in comparison with what is expected, I am appalled and frightened. Iniquity seems to abound. The Destroyer seems to be taking full advantage of the time remaining to him in this, the great day of his power. . . . I have the feeling that the good earth can hardly bear our presence upon it. . . . The Brethren constantly cry out against that which is intolerable in the sight of the Lord: against pollution of mind, body, and our surroundings.
Author: Spencer W. Kimball, Source: "The False Gods We Worship," Ensign 6 (June 1976): 4One man has his eye on a gold mine, . . . another for selling his cattle, . . . another to get a farm, or building here and there, and trading and trafficking with each other, just like Babylon. . . . Babylon is here, and we are following in the footsteps of the inhabitants of the earth, who are in a perfect sea of confusion. Do you know this? You ought to, for there are none of you but what see it daily
Author: Brigham Young, Source: Journal of Discourses 8:125When men transgress the precepts of the Torah, their visages change, and they fear the other creatures and tremble before them; the beasts of the field obtain dominion over men because they do not see any more in them the true supernal image
Author: Zohar, Source: Zohar, Noah 71aCan't find a good quote on stewardship? Try searching ScriptureTag!