Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it. Mark 8:34-35
“I have experienced the fullness of one of the great paradoxes: We find ourselves only when we lose ourselves, in God.”
Charles Colson with Harold Fickett in The Good Life: Seeking Purpose, Meaning and Truth in Your Life (Tyndale, 2005) 132.