It comes in a barrage of equally hard sayings toward the end of the Sermon on the Mount, where Jesus tells his followers to turn the other cheek, give away your coat if someone sues you for your shirt, and «love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven» (Matthew 5:44 - 45). (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
To adapt the language of a familiar parable that stands at the end of the Sermon on the Mount, man wants to build the house of his soul not on shifting sand that will crumble and melt away when the rains fall, the floods come, and the winds blow; instead, he wants an edifice that will stand firm amid personal adversities and the uncertainties of time because it is founded on a rock. (religion-online.org)
We were told a few people were occasionally getting saved at the end of a sermon at church, but that plan wasn't working well. (redeeminggod.com)