Only a coward would send his children to their deaths in order to save his own life.

The passage is not about trying to save your skin by ducking martyrdom or something like that. The word Christ uses for "life" is the word psyche—the word for our soul, our inner self, our heart. He says that the things we do to save our psyche, our self, those plans to save and protect our inner life—those are the things that will actually destroy us.

Not taking risks ultimately leads to failure.

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

If we want to be known in heaven and feared in hell we must be willing to lose our reputation here on earth.

It is better to lose your life than to waste it.

We need to quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.

Consecration is death to self. I know there is a fear that if we give more of ourselves to God, there will be less of us left, but it's the exact opposite. It's not until we die to self that we truly come alive. The more we give to God, the more we have and the more we become. It's only in losing our lives that we will really find them.

if you can truly surrender to Him, you will do more, be more, experience more. Life will just be more.

I'm not convinced that your date of death is the date carved on your tombstone. Most people die long before that. We start dying when we have nothing worth living for. Ad we don't really start living until we find something worth dying for. Ironically, discovering something worth dying for is what makes life worth living.

I'm not convinced that your date of death is the date carved on your tombstone. Most people die long before that. We start dying when we have nothing worth living for. And we don't really start living until we find something worth dying for. Ironically, discovering something worth dying for is what makes life worth living.

In every dream journey, there comes a moment when you have to quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.