Jesus said, “If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for My sake, you will save it.” (Matthew 16:25 NLT)
Until you have given up your self to Him you will not have a real self… Does that sound strange? The same principle holds, you know, for more everyday matters. Even in social life, you will never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking about what sort of impression you are making… The principle runs through all life from top to bottom. Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it… Nothing that you have not given away will be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead.
-- C. S. Lewis in “Mere Christianity”
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