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Quotes About Offering

Take words with you and return to the LORD. Say to him: "Forgive all our sins and receive us graciously, that we may offer the fruit of our lips." HOSEA 14: 2
~ Anne Graham Lotz
I am unbalanced — but I am not mad with snow. I am mad the way young girls are mad, with an offering, an offering… I burn the way money burns.
~ Anne Sexton
I wear silk -- the cover to uncover -- because silk is what I want you to think of. But I dislike the cloth. It is too stern. So tell me anything but track me like a climber for here is the eye, here is the jewel, here is the excitement the nipple learns. I am unbalanced -- but I am not mad with snow. I am mad the way young girls are mad, with an offering, an offering... I burn the way money burns.
~ Anne Sexton
I want to lay my kill at your feet.
~ Annette Curtis Klause
For her birthday, a woman honoured her natalis Juno (Tib., 4, 6, 14): Here is a triple offering of cakes, chaste goddess, a triple offering of pure wine.
~ Robert Turcan
funds for bail was for King to leave Birmingham and crisscross the country speaking to large crowds and passing the offering plate-after all, he was the movement's principal fund-raiser. Yet King had given a promise to
~ S. Jonathan Bass
A man does not go to a woman to get his strength; he goes to her to offer it.
~ John Eldredge
Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in. —"ANTHEM" BY LEONARD COHEN
~ Alice Hoffman
Go thou my incense upward from this hearth And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame.
~ Edward Abbey
But SACRIFICE does not mean 'death' at all. It means MAKING HOLY
~ Edward Carpenter
And here we offer and present unto thee, O Lord, our selves, our souls and bodies, to be a reasonable, holy, and living sacrifice unto thee.
~ Anonymous
My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering.
~ Anonymous
String and spit and wire and a voice on the radio offering a loom on which to spin his dreams.
~ Anthony Doerr
SBI Caps has a distinct advantage because most of our people are market recruits. We have a public sector heritage. Our challenge is to bring the best of both - public sector heritage and private sector talent - and provide a unique offering.
~ Arundhati Bhattacharya
Usul, você está chorando — Chani murmurou. — Usul, minha força, você está oferecendo umidade aos mortos? Aos mortos de quem? — Àqueles que ainda não morreram.
~ Frank Herbert
So bewies mir das Wagnis, dass es nicht zerstörerisch ist, wenn wir unser Innerstes aufs Spiel setzen, wenn wir unseren verborgenen und echten Kern anbieten. Wie können nicht zerstört werden.
~ Anais Nin
Isaac had to die. For Abraham, as well as for Isaac, only by death could freedom from the self-life be obtained. Abraham had to offer Isaac on the altar. That was not an arbitrary command of God. It was the revelation of a divine truth – it is only through death that a life truly consecrated to God is possible.
~ Andrew Murray
ALTAR  (A'LTAR)   n.s.[altare, Lat. It is observed by Junius, that the word altar is received, with christianity, in all the European languages; and that altare is used by one of the Fathers, as appropriated to the Christian worship, in opposition to the aræ of gentilism.]1. The place where offerings to heaven are laid. The goddess
~ Samuel Johnson
Clearly she knew that between book lovers, a novel is not a novel is not a novel. It's a symbol, an offering -- and sometimes a test
~ Sara Nelson
they can still think of their daily work as an offering, their desk or anvil or stovetop as an "altar" to God, and they can still offer their work
~ Scott Hahn
Tithe in kind where your spirit is fed.
~ Oprah Winfrey
If life is not a celebration, why remember it ? If life --- mine or that of my fellow man --- is not an offering to the other, what are we doing on this earth?
~ Elie Wiesel, Open Heart
Life, like love, cannot thrive inside its own threshold but is renewed as it offers itself. Life grows as it is spent.
~ Ardis Whitman
I was raised to be in service to something larger than myself. A lot of actors concentrate on what they will get out of the profession, rather than what they can offer it. The way I see it, if you come with something to offer, you can offer it forever.
~ Tyne Daly