Neither will I offer burnt-offerings unto Jehovah my God which cost me nothing. 2 Samuel 24:24
“Sacrilege is centered in offering God something which costs nothing…God looks for the giving at His altar of a gift that costs something.”
G. Campbell Morgan (1863-1945) in The Morning Message: A Selection for Daily Meditation (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1906) 17.