“So here Jesus sat in the Temple courtyard, watching all the comings and goings as people came to worship. And in the midst of all the pageantry and all the pretense, what he noticed and affirmed was one woman quietly giving her all. She showed us that the gift that counts is the gift which costs; that no gift of love is too small to count; and that giving to God means putting in the whole of our living, our hearts.”
Betsy Schwarzentraub in Journal of Stewardship: Preaching Stewardship, ed. by Elizabeth Muir and Vincent Alfano (Indianapolis: ECSS, 1995) 18.