Quotes About Loss

We were tossed so violently that the next day the men began to jettison the cargo.

On the third day, they threw the shipís tackle overboard with their own hands.

After the men had gone a long time without food, Paul stood up among them and said, “Men, you should have followed my advice not to sail from Crete. Then you would have averted this disaster and loss.

But now I urge you to keep up your courage, because you will not experience any loss of life, but only of the ship.

ruin and misery lie in their wake,

If it is burned up, he will suffer loss. He himself will be saved, but only as if through the flames.

For if I grieve you, who is left to cheer me but those whom I have grieved?

Have you suffered so much for nothing, if it really was for nothing?

Having lost all sense of shame, they have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity, with a craving for more.

But whatever was gain to me I count as loss for the sake of Christ.

More than that, I count all things as loss compared to the surpassing excellence of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ

For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. By craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.

For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected. He could find no ground for repentance, though he sought the blessing with tears.

Your riches have rotted and moths have eaten your clothes.

Watch yourselves, so that you do not lose what we have worked for, but that you may be fully rewarded.

a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.

And the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her, because there is no one left to buy their cargo—

And they will say: “The fruit of your soulís desire has departed from you; all your luxury and splendor have vanished, never to be seen again.”

The merchants who sold these things and grew their wealth from her will stand at a distance, in fear of her torment. They will weep and mourn,

For in a single hour such fabulous wealth has been destroyed!” Every shipmaster, passenger, and sailor, and all who make their living from the sea, will stand at a distance

and cry out at the sight of the smoke rising from the fire that consumes her. “What city was ever like this great city?” they will exclaim.

Then they will throw dust on their heads as they weep and mourn and cry out: “Woe, woe to the great city, where all who had ships on the sea were enriched by her wealth! For in a single hour she has been destroyed.”

And the sound of harpists and musicians, of flute players and trumpeters, will never ring out in you again. Nor will any craftsmen of any trade be found in you again, nor the sound of a millstone be heard in you again.

The light of a lamp will never shine in you again, and the voices of a bride and bridegroom will never call out in you again. For your merchants were the great ones of the earth, because all the nations were deceived by your sorcery.”