“Christian people should surely have been in the vanguard of the movement for environmental responsibility, because of our doctrines of creation and stewardship. Did God make the world? Does he sustain it? Has he committed its resources to our care? His personal concern for his own creation should be sufficient to inspire us to be equally concerned.” PeopleWorldShouldDoeHas BeensCareChristianResponsibilityMovementCreationInspireResourcesConcernConcernedEnvironmentalCommittedDoctrineSufficientSustainabilityStewardshipVanguardEnvironmental Responsibility Author:John Stott
“Christians, of all people, should not be destroyers. We should treat nature with an overwhelming respect. We may cut down a tree to build a house, or to make a fire to keep the family warm. But we should not cut down the tree just to cut down the tree. We may, if necessary, bark the cork tree in order to have the use of the bark. But what we should not do is to bark the tree simply for the sake of doing so, and let it dry and stand there a dead skeleton in the wind. To do so is not to treat the tree with integrity.” PeopleIfsShouldMayUseChristianOrderHouseFireCuttingTreeWindIntegrityTreatsEnvironmentalSakeWarmDryOverwhelmingStewardshipBarkSkeletonsDestroyersCork Author:Francis Schaeffer
“Obviously, if Christianity is going to survive as more than a respecter and comforter of profitable inquiries, then Christians, regardless of their organizations, are going to have to interest themselves in economy-which is to say, in nature and in work. They are going to have to give workable answers to those who say we cannot live without this economy that is destroying us and our world, who see the murder of Creation as the only way of life.” IfsWorldWayGivingChristianInterestAnswersChristianityEconomyCreationOrganizationMurderEnvironmentalOur WorldDestroyingInquiryStewardshipProfitableComforter Author:Wendell Berry
“It is doubtful that the dissection of living animals and plants could be done by those who believe them to be holy. A pantheist would not view trees as so many board feet in the manner a Christian would. A pantheist would be less likely to measure the number of acre feet coming over a waterfall than his Christian descendent, centuries later who had become a scientist. That which is sacred would be handled with a certain reverence.” BelieveDoneWould BeChristianCertainAnimalViewsNumbersTreeFeetCenturyHolyScientistSacredPlantEnvironmentalBoardsReverenceStewardshipDoubtfulAcresWaterfallsDissection Author:Wes Jackson