Quotes About Commitment

Peter began to say to Him, “Look, we have left everything and followed You.”

“Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for My sake and for the gospel

“You do not know what you are asking,” Jesus replied. “Can you drink the cup I will drink, or be baptized with the baptism I will undergo?”

“We can,” the brothers answered. “You will drink the cup that I drink,” Jesus said, “and you will be baptized with the baptism that I undergo.

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.í

Let no one on the housetop go back inside to retrieve anything from his house.

And let no one in the field return for his cloak.

Peter declared, “Even if all fall away, I never will.”

“Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “this very night, before the rooster crows twice, you will deny Me three times.”

But Peter kept insisting, “Even if I have to die with You, I will never deny You.” And all the others said the same thing.

Then Jesus returned and found them sleeping. “Simon, are you asleep?” He asked. “Were you not able to keep watch for one hour?

And again Jesus returned and found them sleeping—for their eyes were heavy. And they did not know what to answer Him.

But Jesus answered, “It is written: ëWorship the Lord your God and serve Him only.í”

And when they had brought their boats ashore, they left everything and followed Him.

and Levi got up, left everything, and followed Him.

Why do you call Me ëLord, Lord,í but not do what I say?

I will show you what he is like who comes to Me and hears My words and acts on them:

Blessed is the one who does not fall away on account of Me.”

The seeds on rocky ground are those who hear the word and receive it with joy, but they have no root. They believe for a season, but in the time of testing, they fall away.

Whatever house you enter, stay there until you leave that area.

Then Jesus said to all of them, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow Me.

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it.

As the day of His ascension approached, Jesus resolutely set out for Jerusalem.

As they were walking along the road, someone said to Jesus, “I will follow You wherever You go.”