For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the man who humbles himself will be exalted.

‘Try your best to enter by the narrow door, because, I tell you, many will try to enter and will not succeed.'

‘Do you suppose that I am here to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division.'

‘There is no need to be afraid, little flock, for it has pleased your Father to give you the kingdom.'

“Fool! This very night the demand will be made for your soul; and this hoard of yours, whose will it be then?”

his disciples said, ‘Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.’ He said to them, ‘Say this when you pray: ‘“Father, may your name be held holy..."

But the Lord answered: ‘Martha, Martha,’ he said ‘you worry and fret about so many things, and yet few are needed, indeed only one.

"But a Samaritan traveller who came upon him was moved with compassion when he saw him."

The seventy-two came back rejoicing. ‘Lord,’ they said ‘even the devils submit to us when we use your name.’

"As the time drew near for him to be taken up to heaven, Jesus resolutely took the road for Jerusalem..."