Philosophical Sayings

I have come to bring fire on the earth…. Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division.

It is more blessed to give than to receive.

Whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it.

If anyone wants to be first, he must be the very last, and the servant of all.

Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

It is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person.

Everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin.

Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.

What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul?

No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch will pull away from the garment, making the tear worse.

Neither do people pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst, the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.

The people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the people of the light.

Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.

Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?

Be careful not to do your 'acts of righteousness' before men, to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.

Whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all.

Give back to Caesar what belongs to Caesar—and to God what belongs to God.

If you love me, keep my commands.

I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.

Do to others as you would have them do to you.