Through your closeness to the land you touched the sacredness of mans relationship with God, for the

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• Through your closeness to the land you touched
  the sacredness of mans relationship with God,
  for the land was proof of a power in life greater
  than yourselves.

Pope John Paul II
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• Stewardship is a spirituality consisting of
  four parts receiving the gifts of God with
  gratitude cultivating them responsibly sharing
  them lovingly in justice with others and
  standing before the Lord in a spirit of
  accountability.

US Conference of Catholic Bishops, Stewardship A
Disciples Response
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• Christ is the visible likeness of the invisible
  God. He is the first-born son, superior to all
  created thingsGod has created the whole universe
  through him and for him.

Colossians 115-16
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• All creatures exist by participation in the
  divine being.

St. Thomas Aquinas
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• The Lord said to Noah and to his sons with him,
  as for me, I am establishing my covenant with
  you and your descendants after you, and with
  every living creature that is with you, the birds
  and domestic animals, and every animal of the
  earth with you, as many as came out of the ark.

Genesis 99-10
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• With environmental degradation, it is always the
  poor who will be impacted disproportionately.

Fr. Sean McDonagh, Catholic Earthcare Climate
Change Conference
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• God called the dry land the earth, and the
  basin of the water he called the sea. God saw
  how good it was.

Genesis 110
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• A just and sustainable society and world are not
  an optional ideal, but a moral and practical
  necessity.

US Conference of Catholic Bishops, Renewing the
Earth
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• I think that we must help to recover the harmony
  between humanity and the universe that God willed
  to give, at the moment of creation.

Archbishop Diarmuid Martin
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• Why cant more people share the marvelous
  creativity that has come to our planet?

Sr. Dorothy Stang, SNDdeN
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• We must remain stubbornly hopeful that we can
  change things. We must do the best we can.

Wangari Maathai, 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner
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• You are not making a gift of what is yours to
  the poor, but you are giving them back what is
  theirsThe earth belongs to everyone, not to the
  rich.

St. Ambrose
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• Love of neighbor, grounded in love of God, is
  first and foremost a responsibility for each
  individual member of the faithful, but it is also
  a responsibility for entire ecclesial community
  at every level.

Pope Benedict XVI, Deus Caritas Est 20
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• No one can be the slave of two mastersYou
  cannot be the slave of both God and of money.

Matthew 624
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• Give to everyone that asks, without looking for
  repayment, for it is the Fathers pleasure that
  we should share his gracious bounty with all.

The Didache
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• For we are what he had made us, created in Jesus
  Christ for good works, which God prepared
  beforehand to be our way of life.

Ephesians 210
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• The Lord prescribed love towards God and taught
  justice towards neighbor.

St. Irenaeus of Lyon
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• Let justice flow like water and integrity like
  an unfailing stream.

Amos 524
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• It is the nature of social justice to demand
  from each person everything that is necessary for
  the good of all.

Pope Pius XI, Divini Redemptoris 51
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• Aspire not to have more but to be more.

Archbishop Oscar Romero
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• We must be poor with the poor and recapture a
  tender and kind relationship with Mother Earth. 
  Then we will know how to act.

Sr. Dorothy Stang
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• Sometimes it falls on a generation to be great.
  You can be that great generation. Let your
  greatness blossom.

Nelson Mandela
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• We as citizens cannot just be observers, we need
  to be participants. Too often we blame others for
  problems. We need to accept our part in the
  problem and be part of the solution. God created
  beauty man has in part destroyed that beauty.
  Man must restore it.

Wangari Maathai