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"If any of you wants to be my follower," he told them,
"you must put aside your own pleasures and shoulder
your cross, and follow me closely. If you insist on saving
your life, you will lose it. Only those who throw away
their lives for my sake and for the sake of the Good
News will ever know what it means to really live."
Mark 8:34-35 [TLB]