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“Prepare thy soul calmly to obey; such offering will be more acceptable to God than every other sacrifice.”

Soul Sacrifice Obedience Acceptable Offering

Author:Pietro Metastasio

“Every Christian is a priest, not offering a sacrifice for sins - since that has been done once and for all - but offering his person, praise and possessions.”

Persons Has Beens Done Christian Sin Sacrifice Praise Possession Priests Offering

Author:Vance Havner

“The platform or the altar of love may be analyzed and explained; it is constructed of virtue, beauty, and affection. Such is the pyre, such is the offering; but the ethereal spark must come from heaven, that lights the sacrifice.”

Love May Light Heaven Virtue Sacrifice Affection Sparks Offering Platforms Altars Ethereal

Book:Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

“Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.”

Body Pay Sacrifice Hair Possession Offering Giver Tithe Adornment

Author:Sallust

“True worship has less to do with offering sacrifices than with being a sacrifice ourselves.”

Faith Religious Sacrifice Worship Offering True Worship

Author:Mike Mason

“If it be the pleasure of Heaven that my country shall require the poor offering of my life, the victim shall be ready, at the appointed hour of sacrifice, come when that hour may. But while I do live, let me have a country, and that a free country!”

Ifs May Country Heaven Hours Pleasure Poor Sacrifice Ready Let Me Victim Offering Free Country

Author:John Adams

“Loneliness itself is material for sacrifice. The very longings themselves can be offered to Him who understands perfectly. The transformation into something He can use for the good of others takes place only when the offering is put into his hands.”

Use Hands Sacrifice Loneliness Materials Transformation Longing Offering

Book:Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control

Source: Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control

“Alas!... what is it, valiant knight, save an offering of sacrifice to a demon of vain glory, and a passing through the fire of Moloch? What remains to you as a prize of all the blood you have spilled, of all the travail and pain you have endured, of all the tears which your deeds have caused, when death hath broken the strong man's spear, and overtaken the speed of his war-horse?”

Source: Heroes of the Scottish Highlands: Ivanhoe, Waverley and Rob Roy (3 Unabridged Illustrated Classics): Historical Novels from the Author of The Pirate, The Heart of Midlothian, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, The Bride of Lammermoor and Anne of Geierstein

“The goal of human freedom is not in freedom itself, nor it is in man, but in God. By giving man freedom, God has yielded to man a piece of His Divine authority, but with the intention that man himself would voluntarily bring it as a sacrifice to God, a most perfect offering.”

Men Giving Humans Goal Perfect Pieces Sacrifice Divine Authority Intention Offering Human Freedom Sacrifice To God

Author:Theophan the Recluse

“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.”

Want Asks Sacrifice Special Let Me Seeds Significant Soil Offering Atonement

Author:Benny Hinn

“Anytime you have to sacrifice your art, or integrity, it's a bad deal, no matter what they're offering.”

Art Matter Deals Sacrifice Integrity No Matter What Offering

Author:Raheem Jarbo

“It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.”

Men Reason Politics Speak Liberty Sacrifice Masters Capitalism Slave Libertarian Offering Rationality Collecting Freedom And Liberty Freedom Liberty Objectivism

Book:The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess.”

Night Accepting Boys Sacrifice Team Football Towns Offering Goddess Captains Saturday Competing Destined Collecting Saturday Night Football Team Inspirational Team Prom Excursions

Author:Elizabeth Wurtzel

“Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.”

Life Made Real Magic Sacrifice Tears Offering Liver

Book:The Last Unicorn

Source: The Last Unicorn

“Clocks indeed must have their sacrifice: what is death but an offering to time and eternity?”

Inspirational Sacrifice Eternity Offering Locks

Author:Truman Capote

“Offerings to propitiate the dead then were regarded as belonging to the class of funeral sacrifices, and these are idolatry. Idolatry, in fact, is a sort of homage to the departed, the one as well as the other is a service to dead men. Moreover, demons dwell in the images of the dead. ... this sort of exhibition has passed from honors of the dead to honors of the living; I mean, to quaestorships [financial overseers]and magistractes, to priestly offices of different kinds. Yet, since idolatry still cleaves to the dignity's name, whatever is done in its name partakes of its impurity.”

“Men professing godliness offer their bodies upon Satan's altar, and burn the incense of tobacco to his satanic majesty. Does this statement seem severe? The offering must be presented to some deity. Since God is pure and holy, and will accept nothing defiling in its character, He refuses this expensive, filthy, and unholy sacrifice; therefore we conclude that Satan is the one who claims the honor.”

Source: Steps to Christ for a Joy-Filled Life