The True Sacrifice to God by Gregory the Great

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 3, 1880

The True Sacrifice to God

By Gregory the Great

"IN order that a person should show compassion to the needy in a right manner, two things are requisite; the man who gives, and the thing which is given. But the man is of incomparably greater value than the thing. Whoever, therefore, communicates of his earthly substance to his destitute neighbor, but does not guard his own life from evil, gives God his property, but gives himself to sin. He presents what is of least value to his Creator, and that which is of greater value he retains for the evil one. Only that is a genuine sacrifice to God, when the branches of devotion proceed from the root of righteousness."—Gregory the Great in Neander.