Nothing that we consider evil can be offered to God in sacrifice. Therefore, to renounce life in disgust is no sacrifice. We give Him the best we have, in order to declare that He is infinitely better. We give Him all that we prize, in order to assure Him that He is more to us than our “all.” One of the chief tasks of Christian asceticism is to make our life and our body valuable enough to be offered to God in sacrifice.
