"The proper task of the Savior is that he is a savior; indeed, for this he came into the world: to seek and save what was lost."
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"The gospel destroys pride because it tells us we are so lost that Jesus had to die for us."
"it is true that nothing is gained without something being lost: everyone knows that in fulfilling oneself one necessarily sacrifices some possibilities."
"Some things were better lost than found."
"Explorers have to be ready to die lost."
"A lover is always accused of something. But when he finds his love, whatever was lost in the looking comes back completely changed."
"There is a point. I don't know what it is, but everything I've had, and everything I've lost, and everything I felt—it meant something."
"Everywhere we go and move on and change, something's lost--something's left behind. You can't ever quite repeat anything, and I've been so yours, here--"
"I lost my reputation, I forgot my truth. But I have my beauty and I have my youth."
"If I lost control of the business I'd lose myself - or at least the ability to be myself. Owning myself is a way to be myself."
"Chastity, once lost, cannot be recalled; it goes only once."
"Everything changes, nothing is lost."
"Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself."
"If I look back I am lost."
"What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past."
"All good things in life are fragile and easily lost"
"It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog."
"If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost."
"It is with wits as with razors, which are never so apt to cut those they are employed on as when they have lost their edge."
"To those who are here, those who are gone, and those who are lost."