Martin Luther Quotes About Wealth

Quotes about: Wealth

• Whatever man loves, that is his god. For he carries it in his heart; he goes about with it night and day; he sleeps and wakes with it, be it what it may - wealth or self, pleasure or renown.

  Martin Luther

  Heart, Sleep, Night

• Thus my learning is not my own; it belongs to the unlearned and is the debt I owe themMy wisdom belongs to the foolish, my power to the oppressed. Thus my wealth belongs to the poor, my righteousness to the sinners.

  Martin Luther

  Debt, Wealth, Foolish

  Martin Luther, Helmut T. Lehmann (1986). “Luther's Works: Lectures on Galatians”

• Poverty hath slain a thousand, but riches have slain ten thousand. They are very uncertain, they promise that which they cannot perform, neither can they afford a contented mind.

  Martin Luther

  Promise, Mind, Riches

• The whole Turkish empire is nothing else but a crust cast by Heaven's great Housekeeper to His dogs.

  Martin Luther

  Dog, Heaven, Empires

• Wealth is the smallest thing on earth, the least gift that God has bestowed on mankind.

  Martin Luther

  Earth, Wealth, Mankind

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.67

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