"The earth is the Lord's and all that is in it, the world, and all those who live in it." Psalm 24:1 "Greater indeed than the creation of humankind is the creation of the heavens and the earth." Qur'an 40:57
"Faith without action is dead." James 2:17
"We cannot be all that God wants us to be without caring about the earth." Rev. Dr. Rick Warren, author of The Purpose-Driven Life
"The growing possibility of our destroying ourselves and the world with our own neglect and excess is tragic and very real." Billy Graham
"We make an appeal that everyone will make a determined effort to solve the current burning problem of ecology, in order to avoid the great risk threatening the world today due to the abuse of resources that are God's gift." Pope John Paul II and Patriarch Bartholomew I, in a joint statement
"As Christians, our faith in Jesus Christ compels us to love our neighbors and to be stewards of God's creation. The good news is that with God?s help, we can stop global warming, for our kids, our world, and for the Lord." Rev. Joel Hunter, senior pastor of Northland, A Church Distributed, Longwood, Florida
"Love of God, love of neighbor, and the demands of stewardship are more than enough reason for evangelical Christians to respond to the climate change problem with moral passion and concrete action." from Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action
"You shall not pollute the land in which you live. . . .You shall not defile the land in which you live, in which I also dwell." Numbers 35:33-34, NRSV
