“ Listen to something true: If a man gave one thousand golden marks to build churches and monasteries, his deed would be great. However, he would give much more a man who would see the thousand marks as nothing. This man would do much more than the other.”
“ A person often seems to give, but in reality he doesn’t give anything at all. People who give their goods to those who have more property than themselves, where their present is rather useless, or they give it where they will gain some service for their present or where they take a return or they expect to be honored. The presents of such persons must more properly be called beggary not giving, because in reality they give nothing.”
“ Some people glorify God and trust in Him when everything goes well for them, inward or outward, like when someone says, ‘This year I had 10 quarters of corn and so much of wine: I trust in God!’ – ‘Yes’, says I, ‘you trust much in corn and wine’.”
