Religious Offering Quotes

If anyone plows up a boundary stone both he and his oxen should be dedicated as a sacrifice to the gods.

Prasadam's a good little hook in this age of commercialism. When people want something extra, or they need to have something special, prasadam will hook them in there. It's undoubtedly done a great deal toward getting a lot more people involved in spiritual life.

Bribery, he explained, is ingrained in every aspect of Chinese culture. When devotees go to worship Buddha, they don’t cleanse their souls, like Christians confessing their sins in church. They kneel down and donate money to the collection box, to bribe the Buddha.

If you want to get rid of counterfeit money, put it in the collection plate at church.

Offer me that deathless death Good God, let me give you my life.

This is the sacrifice: the endless possibility that is offered up on the altar of the form.

The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do it for a god).

I have called spinning the yajna of this age of India.

They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'