Quotes about Offerings
If it could, would not the offerings have ceased? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt the guilt of their sins.
— Hebrews 10:2
In burnt offerings and sin offerings You took no delight.
— Hebrews 10:6
In the passage above He says, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not desire, nor did You delight in them” (although they are offered according to the law).
— Hebrews 10:8
Day after day every priest stands to minister and to offer again and again the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
— Hebrews 10:11
The transformation of Christ's bodily scars into badges of glory shows us what happens, even in this life, to our souls when we lovingly and trustingly offer our sufferings to Christ and unite them to His. He turns "deformity" into "dignity".
— Peter Kreeft
What kind of spiritual sacrifices does God expect us to offer? Just as Jesus offered up prayers and petitions during His life on earth, so should we. When we learn to pray, then we are qualified to rule.
— Derek Prince
I want to ask you to place a significant seed in God's soil and see it work for you. Just as a special sacrifice was offered on the Day of Atonement, let me ask you to bring a very special offering.
— Benny Hinn
Every single one of you has something you're good at. Every single one of you has something to offer. And you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that is. That's the opportunity an education can provide.
— Barack Obama
This room is very powerful: Buddha, golden, holding down one side; the primordial Great Mother, black, offering her bead of mitochondria holding down the other.
— Alice Walker
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
— Anonymous
Bring no more vain oblations.
— Anonymous
The prophet Hosea spoke for God, saying, "I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God, rather than burnt offerings" (Hos 6:6).
— Scott Hahn