"Whoever wishes to come with me, let them put aside their own selfish interests, and take up their cross, and follow me.
For whosoever wills to keep their life for themselves shall lose it; but whosoever puts aside their life for My sake, and that of the Gospel, shall save it.
What therefore is the profit in it, if you gain the whole world, but lose your self?"
Mark 8:34-36
"Quite a lot of what passes itself off as dialogue about our society consists of people trying to justify their own choices. Let me propose that if your beliefs or convictions matter more to you than people—if they require you to act as though you were a worse person than you are—you may have lost perspective."
Timothy Kreider, We Learn Nothing, 2012
