for He has smiled upon His slave in her lowly station, for from this day all ages will count me happy!

But Jesus said to them, "You cannot make the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them, can you?

But you must practice loving your enemies, doing good to them, and lending to them, despairing of nothing; so that your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.

How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me get that tiny speck out of your eye,' when you cannot see the girder in your own eye? You hypocrite! First get the girder out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly how to get out the tiny speck in your brother's eye.

And suppose he answers from inside, 'Stop bothering me; the door is now locked, and my children are packed about me in bed; I cannot get up and give you any.'

So if you cannot do this very little thing, why should you worry about the rest?

Sell your property and give to charity. Provide for yourselves purses that will never wear out, riches that never fail in heaven, where a thief cannot come near nor a moth destroy,

Then you will be happy, because they cannot repay you; you will be repaid at the resurrection of the upright."

Another said, 'I have just gotten married, and so I cannot come.'

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and still more, his own life too, he cannot be a disciple of mine.

Whoever does not persevere in carrying his own cross and thus following after me, cannot be a disciple of mine.

Lest, perchance, after he has laid the foundation but cannot complete the building, all who see it begin to make sport of him,

And if he cannot, while the other is still far away, he sends envoys and asks for terms of peace.

So he called the manager to him and said, 'What is this that I am hearing about you? Balance your accounts and show how you are conducting my affairs, for you cannot be manager any longer.'

No house-servant can be a slave to two masters, for either he will hate one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

Besides all this, between you and us there stands fixed a great chasm, so that those who want to cross from this side to you cannot, nor can they cross from your side to us.'

For they cannot die again. They are like the angels, and since they are reborn in the resurrection, are children of God.