Worshiping with a Gift

I came across this quote which I originally found for some research I did on the OT sacrifices a number of years ago and it is a helpful thought.

   The worshiper never comes into the presence of God empty-handed.  The sentiment expressed in the hymn ("nothing in my hand I bring") would find little echo in Leviticus.  A worshiper comes either with his gifts of with God's Gift.

(from Victor Hamilton's Handbook on the Pentateuch, 252.)