Mark 8: 34-38
New International Version
Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it. What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul? If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his Father’s glory with the holy angels.”

Roger W Babson
Business and the Church: A Symposiom (pp 49-50), The Century Co., New York, 1926
Of all detestable things, I think hypocrisy is the greatest. The man who joins the church or joins a lodge to help him in business is nothing short of a skunk. To use such an institution to help him socially or to aid him in selling goods is almost an unpardonable sin. Therefore I hope no one who reads this article will go to church in order to be a bigger business man. The basic principle of Christianity was expressed by Jesus in the statement: “He that findeth his life shall lose it; and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.” This means that spiritual power comes not by going after it, but as a reaction from sacrifice and service...