Martin Luther Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God. Music drives away the Devil and makes people joyful; they forget thereby all wrath, unchastity, arrogance, and the like. Next after theology, I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.

  Martin Luther

  Inspirational, Music, God

• A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing.

  Martin Luther

  Giving, Suffering, Religion

• From the beginning of my Reformation I have asked God to send me neither dreams, nor visions, nor angels, but to give me the right understanding of His Word, the Holy Scriptures; for as long as I have God's Word, I know that I am walking in His way and that I shall not fall into any error or delusion.

  Martin Luther

  Dream, Fall, Angel

• Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well.

  Martin Luther

  Family, Children, Apples

• But the Jews are so hardened that they listen to nothing; though overcome by testimonies they yield not an inch. It is a pernicious race, oppressing all men by their usury and rapine. If they give a prince or magistrate a thousand florins, they extort twenty thousand from the subjects in payment. We must ever keep on guard against them.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Yield, Race

  Martin Luther (1848). “The Table Talk Or Familiar Discourse of Martin Luther”, p.352

• Let all the 'free-will' in the world do all it can with all its strength; it will never give rise to a single instance of ability to avoid being hardened if God does not give the Spirit, or of meriting mercy if it is left to its own strength.

  Martin Luther

  Giving, Doe, World

  J. I. Packer, Martin Luther, O. R. Johnston (1990). “Bondage of the Will, The”, Revell

• All our work in the field, in the garden, in the city, in the home, in struggle, in government-to what does it all amount before God except child's play, by means of which God is pleased to give his gifts in the field, at home, and everywhere? These are the masks of our Lord God, behind which he wants to be hidden and to do all things.

  Martin Luther

  Children, Struggle, Home

• The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

  Martin Luther

  Money, People, Giving

• You may as well quit reading and hearing the Word of God, and give it to the devil, if you do not desire to live according to it.

  Martin Luther

  Bible, Reading, Biblical

• I would not give one moment of heaven for all the joy and riches of the world, even if it lasted for thousands and thousands of years.

  Martin Luther

  Years, Giving, Joy

• For what God gives I thank indeed; What He withholds I do not need

  Martin Luther

  Giving, Needs, Christianity

• The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious.

  Martin Luther

  Motivational, Thankful, Life Changing

• The proverb has it that Hunger is the best cook. The Law makes afflicted consciences hungry for Christ. Christ tastes good to them. Hungry hearts appreciate Christ. Thirsty souls are what Christ wants. He invites them: Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Christ's benefits are so precious that He will dispense them only to those who need them and really desire them.

  Martin Luther

  Heart, Law, Appreciate

  Martin Luther (2007). “Commentary on Galatians”, p.75, Lulu.com

• Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

  Martin Luther

  Wise, Power, Men

• After theology I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.

  Martin Luther

  Music, Giving, Honor

  "Luther on Education in the Christian Home and School".

• Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the basilica of St. Peter, to many of those from whom certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Money, Giving

  Martin Luther (2012). “Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings”, p.45, Fortress Press

• God's love gives in such a way that it flows from a Father's heart, the well-spring of all good. The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious; as among ourselves we say of even a trifling gift, "It comes from a hand we love," and look not so much at the gift as at the heart.

  Martin Luther

  Father, Spring, Heart

• True faith will no more fail to produce [good works] than the sun can cease to give light.

  Martin Luther

  Light, Giving, Sun

• The two chief things are faith and love. Faith receives the good; love gives the good. Faith offers us God as our own; love gives us to our neighbor as his own.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Good Love, Two

• Many sweat to reconcile St Paul and St James, but in vain. 'Faith justifies' and 'faith does not justify' contradict each other flatly. If any one can harmonize them I will give him my doctor's hood and let him call me a fool.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Humor, Sweat

• God is ready to give more quickly, and to give more than you ask; yea, he offers his treasures if we only take them. It is truly a great shame and a severe chastisement for us Christians that God should still upbraid us for our slothfulness in prayer, and that we fail to let such a rich and excellent promise incite us to pray.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Prayer, Giving

  Martin Luther (2007). “Through the Year with Martin Luther: A Selection of Sermons Celebrating the Feasts and Seasons of the Christian Year”, p.412, Hendrickson Publishers

• The confidence that God is mindful of the individual is of tremendous value in dealing with the disease of fear, for it gives us a sense of worth, of belonging, and of at homeness in the universe.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Giving, Disease

• Take a look at your own heart, and you will soon find out what has stuck to it and where your treasure is. It is easy to determine whether hearing the Word of God, living according to it, and achieving such a life gives you as much enjoyment and calls forth as much diligence from you as does accumulating and saving money and property.

  Martin Luther

  Heart, Giving, Doe

  Martin Luther (1956). “The sermon on the mount and the magnificat”

• As when my little son John offendeth: if then I should not whip him, but call him to the table unto me, and give him sugar and plums, thereby, I should make him worse, yea should quite spoil him.

  Martin Luther

  Education, Son, Giving

  Martin Luther (1892). “Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther”

• The devil and temptations also do give occasion unto us somewhat to learn and understand the Scriptures, by experience and practice. Without trials and temptations we should never understand anything thereof; no, not although we diligently read and heard the same.

  Martin Luther

  Practice, Giving, Temptation

  Martin Luther, Henry Bell (Captain.), Joseph KERBY, Anton Lauterbach (1818). “The Familiar Discourses of Dr. Martin Luther ... Translated ... by Captain Henry Bell ... A New Edition, Revised ... by J. Kerby, Etc”, p.3

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