“The message of the Parable of the Talents is concerned not with how much we have at the outset, nor with how much we have to show at the end, but with how well we use whatever we have been given.” (Cf. Matthew 25:14-30).
John R. Bodo in Journal of Stewardship: Preaching Stewardship. Edited by Elizabeth Muir, Vincent Alfano (Indianapolis: ECSS, 1995) 45.