23 Then he said to them all: “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. 24 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it. 25 What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit his very self?”
“If I really love God, my innate and persistent selfishness will have received its death blow.” Alexander Smellie
“Christ regarded the self-loving, self-regarding, self-seeking spirit as the direct antithesis of real living.” J. B. Phillips
“We may easily be too big for God to use, but never too small.” D. L. Moody