Quotes About Offering

There is nothing that we can give to the Lord to repay His goodness and mercy but we can give offering of praise to show our gratitude.

Nothing's too good for the Lord.

I move past the scaffolding and walk down the steps, hearing one language after another, rich, harsh, mysterious, strong. This is what we bring to the temple, not prayer or chant or slaughtered rams. Our offering is language.

What is the physical, tangible thing you are selling?

Paul said, "Continue in prayer and, "Pray without ceasing." He did not mean that people should be always on their knees, but he did mean that our prayers should be like the continual burned-offering steadily preserved in every day; that it should be like seed-time and harvest, and summer and winter, unceasingly coming round at regular seasons; that it should be like the fire on the altar, not always consuming sacrifices, but never completely going out.

I'm lost in the middle of my birthday. I want my friends, their touch, with the earth's last love. I will take life's final offering, I will take the last human blessing.

Price ain't merely about numbers. It's a satisfying sacrifice.

...instead of offering me a Garibaldi biscuit, she asked me with that faint lisp of hers, to 'have some squashed flies, George'.

the true value of an offering isn't measured by how much we give. It's measured by how much we keep... By definition, a sacrifice must involve sacrifice...

The opposite of a slave is not a free man. It's a worshiper. The one who is most free is the one who turns the work of his hands into sacrament, into offering. All he makes and all he does are gifts from God, through God, and to God.

St. Gregory enunciates this truth still more plainly: "Although Christ dies not again, yet He suffers again for us in the Sacrifice of the Mass after a mysterious, mystical manner." Theodoret speaks no less plainly: "We offer no other sacrifice but that which was offered upon the Cross.

In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice that still continues.

Gold pleases men, but blood serves the gods, because in the end, your life is all you have to give.

Alexias) 'You burned this and you kept no copy?' (Plato) 'When one offers to the gods, one brings a whole beast to the altar. If it was an image of what is not, then it was false and ought to be destroyed; and if of what is, then a little fire will not destroy it.

though he offered himself once for all, yet that one offering thus becomes a continual offering.

It is the will of God that his ministers should be well provided for with food convenient; and what is given to them he accepts as offered to himself, if it be done with a single eye.

Jesus Christ is our great peace-offering; for he made himself a sacrifice, not only to atone for sin, and so to save us from the curse, but to purchase a blessing for us, and all good.

The work of the original Suffering Servant was declared finished on Calvary, but it is not complete until each of us has accepted the role of cross-bearing servants witnessing to the nations and bringing them to know Jesus as their offering for sin and Savior.

Your God would never punish you for being a human being: this life itself is your penance...But it is also more than that: it is a crucible for transformation. Each trial, every loss, is an opportunity for you to meet suffering with love and make of it an offering, a prayer. The minute you lift your pain like a candle the darkness vanishes, and mercy comes rushing in to heal you.

WITH THIS BOOK I respectfully invoke the heroic, aggrieved souls wandering in the boundless bright-red sorghum fields of my hometown. As your unfilial son, I am prepared to carve out my heart, marinate it in soy sauce, have it minced and placed in three bowls, and lay it out as an offering in a field of sorghum. Partake of it in good health!

YOU SHALL not sacrifice to the Lord your God an ox or sheep with a blemish or any defect whatsoever, for that is an abomination to the Lord your God.

I hear the singing of the lives of women. The clear mystery, the offering, and the pride.

A master has always something to offer, while we go hungry solely because of our own lack of appreciation.

In the battle of ascesis and the offering of creatures to God in the cosmic liturgy, our will must cooperate with divine grace. But the ultimate knowledge, the love-knowledge of the Trinity, takes hold of us by grace alone. We prepare for it by a stripping away of our being until we become nothing but expectation.