Quotes About Devotion

Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray at all times and not lose heart:

I fast twice a week and pay tithes of all that I acquire.í

“Look,” said Peter, “we have left all we had to follow You.”

“Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God

Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift each of you like wheat.

“Lord,” said Peter, “I am ready to go with You even to prison and to death.”

And He withdrew about a stoneís throw beyond them, where He knelt down and prayed,

His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for Your house will consume Me.”

He must increase; I must decrease.

But a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for the Father is seeking such as these to worship Him.

Jesus explained, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work.

Then they inquired, “What must we do to perform the works of God?”

Simon Peter replied, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.

“Lord, I believe,” he said. And he worshiped Jesus.

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.

(Mary, whose brother Lazarus was sick, was to anoint the Lord with perfume and wipe His feet with her hair.)

Then Thomas called Didymus said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, so that we may die with Him.”

And when Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to Him.

Then Mary took about a pint of expensive perfume, made of pure nard, and she anointed Jesusí feet and wiped them with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

“Leave her alone,” Jesus replied. “She has kept this perfume in preparation for the day of My burial.

If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me; and where I am, My servant will be as well. If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.

It was now just before the Passover Feast, and Jesus knew that His hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the very end.

“Then, Lord,” Simon Peter replied, “not only my feet, but my hands and my head as well!”

One of His disciples, the one whom Jesus loved, was reclining at His side.