Quotes related to Mark 8:35
Life isn't worth living until you have found something worth dying for.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The ultimate purpose of life is to show that Jesus is more precious than life.
- John Piper
It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.
- Anonymous
He saved others; himself he cannot save.
- Anonymous
He that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.
- Anonymous
I believe we all serve someone in this life. For the first thirty-eight years of mine, I served myself. My conversion was not a highly emotional experience. It was a conscious, thought-out decision that changed my focus, my direction, my heart, my life.
- Francine Rivers
Unless we have something worth dying for, Atretes, we've nothing worth living for.
- Francine Rivers
Jesus gave up His life to God, and by this He taught us that the only thing that life is worth living for is to give it back to God, even unto death.
- Andrew Murray
I do not appeal to you to screw up your courage and sacrifice for Christ. I appeal to you to renounce all you have to obtain life that satisfies your deepest longings.
- John Piper
To journey for the sake of saving our own lives is little by little to cease to live in any sense that really matters, even to ourselves, because it is only by journeying for the world's sake - even when the world bores and sickens and scares you half to death - that little by little we start to come alive.
- Frederick Buechner
Women are, I think, moved by the idea that self-sacrifice is noble and can be the source of great joy.
- Eric Metaxas
Once they tried to save something, others or their own souls.
- Margaret Atwood