Such thrift is impious where God is concerned. Let the sick starve and the breasts of the women run dry, so long as God receives due meed of sacrifice.
Pashur
[Earnestly] God requires no gifts to make him aware of our distresses.
Hananiah
Naught is sweeter to the Lord than the gifts of the needy. We should give to the uttermost, tearing the morsels from our own mouths.
Pashur
I know the customs. It is not for you, Hananiah, to teach me my duty, which I know better perchance than you know God’s word and God’s will.
Hananiah
Who sacrifices grudgingly, who sacrifices with a cold heart, is but a slaughterman, and no true servant of the Lord. Lo, I say unto you unless ye give of your uttermost need, ye are unworthy to stand in the light of his countenance.