Top 100 Follow Jesus Quotes
#1. A disciple follows Jesus, invites others to follow him, and then trains them how to repeat the process.
Brandon D. Smith
#2. Our faith can grow big enough to move a mountain. Jesus said, "These signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons ... they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover" (Mark 16:17-18).
Stormie O'martian
#3. Jesus ... said - long before his followers had established churches and a priesthood - 'I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.' This Way is the life of the Spirit. To follow it entails no necessity for places (all places are holy ground), no priesthood, since every man becomes a priest unto God ...
Esme Wynne-Tyson
#4. To be a disciple of Jesus means to learn from Him, to follow Him. The cost may be high.
Billy Graham
#5. The problem with a living sacrifice is that it can crawl off the altar, so you may have to resurrender your life fifty times a day. You must make it a daily habit. Jesus said, "If people want to follow me, they must give up the things they want. They must be willing to give
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#6. Many have made a decision to believe in Jesus without making a commitment to follow Jesus.
Kyle Idleman
#7. I love God and I follow Jesus but I just don't have much affinity for the organized folderol of the churches in the Western World.
Larry Norman
#8. When Jesus invites you to follow Him, his invitation comes to you right where you are. He doesn't want you to wait until tomorrow in hopes that you will finally be heading down the right path; He wants you to say yes today and he will lead you out of where you are now.
Kyle Idleman
#9. Instead of practicing philoxenos, which means loving the stranger, we find many times that the church is xenophobic. We forget that Jesus, whom we claim to follow, was the ultimate lover of otherness in people. Even differences in religion didn't freak Jesus out when it came to loving people.
Holly Sprink
#10. True Christianity is not defined on the basis of external moralism, religious traditionalism, or partisan politics, but on the basis of a personal love for Jesus Christ and a desire to follow Him no matter what the cost (John 14:15).
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#11. The Bible is the means through which we are introduced to Jesus and invited to follow Him in the life of humility and service.
Richard Foster
#12. You have only one model, Jesus. Follow, follow, follow him, step by step, imitating him, sharing his life in every way.
Charles De Foucauld
#13. If any want to become my followers," Jesus says. Following him is not something that is self-evident, even among the disciples. No one can be forced, no one can be expected to follow him ... "If any want to follow me, they must deny themselves ... and take up their cross.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#14. O Christian, look up and take comfort. Jesus has prepared a place for you, and those who follow Him shall never perish, neither shall anyone pluck them out of His hands.
J.C. Ryle
#15. We cannot better assure our eternal happiness than by living and dying in the service of the poor, in the arms of Providence, and with genuine renouncement of ourselves in order to follow Jesus Christ.
Vincent De Paul
#17. Grace will follow us even when we are going the wrong way
Ricky Maye
#18. Baptism is the critical priesthood ordinance which opens the door to eternal life for each one of us. It is the benchmark from which we count our many blessings because this is when our accountability to follow Jesus Christ and live his Gospel begins.
Elaine L. Jack
#19. Jesus ... HIS sheep, they know His voice and they follow Him whether you disciple them or not!
Paul Washer
#20. Jesus lived a life of peace, love, kindness and forgiveness, during the hustle and bustle of the Christmas season, may we all do our best to follow his example.
Barack Obama
#21. To follow Jesus means to share his merciful love for every human being.
Pope Francis
#22. We'd do better to follow the admonition of Jesus about loving our neighbours. People in the U.S. are capable of forgiveness and willing to see one another's point of view, but when matters become politicised, we're less able to do that.
Kent Haruf
#23. God is the leader of your team. As you follow Him with all your heart, you will be leading your team in Jesus' steps.
Jim George
#24. Discipleship is a daily discipline; we follow Jesus a step at a time, a day at a time
Warren W. Wiersbe
#25. Jesus set an example for us to follow: a life of loving, obedient service.
Charles Stanley
#26. It never cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus; to talk about cost when you are in love with anyone is an insult.
Oswald Chambers
#27. When ALL is said and DONE, What will matter to our Heavenly Father will be how well we have Kept Our Covenants and how much we have tried to follow the example of our Savior, Jesus Christ.
Linda S. Reeves
#28. Grace is costly because it calls us through our person to the person of Jesus Christ. And when we follow the person of Jesus Christ, when we follow his call through our person, we're sent to act for the concrete person of our neighbor in the world.
Andrew Root
#29. Leadership is influencing a community to follow Jesus.
Dan Kimball
#30. I was warned not to do it. Actors who play Jesus are supposed to have a hard time getting other roles to follow, but I felt this was a myth. After all, how can you be typecast as Christ?
Jeffrey Hunter
#31. So Jesus came and modelled a lifestyle of power and purity because the power of the Spirit of God was on him. He was trying to show those of us who would follow what life would be like in someone who had no sin and was completely empowered by the Spirit of God.
Bill Johnson
#32. Pragmatically speaking, I like the fact that the masses vote, abuse drugs, believe in Jesus, follow sports, and worship a flag. They are tools of social engineering that keep the many-too-many sedate, pacified, and out of many people's hair (chiefly, my own).
Matt Paradise
#33. If I am to wholly follow the Lord Jesus Christ, I must forsake everything that is contrary to Him.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#34. Too often, preachers encourage us to worship Jesus, but Jesus simply invites us to follow him - his way of life, his way of experiencing God. We are invited to practice the spirituality of Jesus instead of a spirituality or religion about Jesus.
Preston Tama
#35. The path Jesus takes you on may look like it's taking you to one dead end after another. Nevertheless, the thread does not work in reverse. If you just obey Jesus and follow it forward, it will do its work.
Timothy J. Keller
#36. Saints didn't set out to have everyone follow them. Saints set out to follow Jesus, and others followed them in their pursuit of Him.
Mark Hart
#37. Although the church has often been far too slow to follow his lead, Jesus' insistence that women, as well as men, bear the full image of God has had a way of sparking reform movements across the centuries.
John Ortberg
#38. When Jesus says you must leave your family to follow Him, he doesn't necessarily mean physically. He means leave your dependence on them, make an emotional break with them.
Anne Graham Lotz
#39. Jesus tells you exactly how to get it. Put your money in missions-and in your church and the poor-and your heart will follow.
Randy Alcorn
#40. The question each of us must answer is ... What shall I do with Jesus? He Himself has provided us the answer: "Follow me, and do the things which ye have seen me do"
Thomas S. Monson
#41. Do not be afraid to be saints. Follow Jesus Christ who is the source of freedom and light. Be open to the Lord so that He may lighten all your ways.
Pope John Paul II
#42. Jesus didn't say that if you wanted to follow Him you could do it in a lukewarm manner. He said, 'Take up your cross and follow Me.
Francis Chan
#43. It is impossible to follow the teachings of Jesus Christ and be a Republican. It's philosophically absolutely opposed - if they could only think about what they were saying for a minute. That's when you get caught up in the webs of what people call themselves and how they behave.
Neil Peart
#44. The road that leads to heaven is risky, lonely, and costly in this world, and few are willing to pay the price. Following Jesus involves losing your life-and finding new life in him. Follow Me, pg. 11
David Platt
#45. If the church is to survive as a place where head and heart are equal partners in faith, then we will need to commit ourselves once again not to the worship of Christ, but to the imitation of Jesus. His invitation was not to believe, but to follow. (p. 145)
Robin R. Meyers
#46. If someone tries to follow the narrow way and does not set aside who they think they are and what they think they need, they cannot follow.
Ted Dekker
#47. If the world is to hear the church's voice today, leaders are needed who are authoritative, spiritual, and sacrificial. Sacrificial, because this trait follows the model of Jesus, who gave Himself for the whole world and who calls us to follow in His steps.
J. Oswald Sanders
#48. You cannot successfully follow Jesus Christ unless you learn how to overcome fear through his name.John 14:1-4.
Felix Wantang
#49. This present world is a perfectly safe place for us to be." That certainly is what Jesus, and the Bible as a whole, has to say to us. "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever" (Ps 23).
Dallas Willard
#50. If any kind of obedience, regardless of what motivates it, is what God is after, He would have showcased the Pharisees and exhorted all of us to follow their lead, to imitate them. But He didn't. Jesus called them 'whitewashed tombs'
clean on the outside, dead on the inside.
Tullian Tchividjian
#51. The majority of believers on this earth find it laughable that we could reduce the call to follow Jesus and make disciples to an invitation to sit in church service.
Francis Chan
#52. Faith is not the absence of doubt; it is continuing to follow Jesus in the midst of doubt.
J.D. Greear
#53. Those who served both the Almighty and secular lords did their best to follow Jesus's teachings and render unto Caesar the things which were Caesar's, and unto God the things that were God's, all the while praying they'd never have to choose between the two.
Sharon Kay Penman
#54. Thousands of Christians compromise their faith in Jesus Christ by denying Him. Even some clergymen neglect or deliberately refuse to close a public prayer in the name of Jesus for fear of offending an unbeliever. They cannot endure the persecution that may follow an acknowledgment of Jesus Christ.
Billy Graham
#55. Discipleship is the art and science of helping people find, follow and fully become like Jesus. Discipleship happens as God's people show love, share truth and live life with one another, making new disciples along the way.
Brandon Cox
#56. The path I am trying so hard to follow is in fact the one that God my Father and His Son Jesus Christ want me to pursue. It has brought me deep happiness.
Clayton Christensen
#57. Let your passion become a passionate pursuit of Me. And as you follow, the sheep will follow.' (John 21:20-22)
Charles R. Swindoll
#58. Even if there were no heaven and there were no hell, would you still follow Jesus? Would you follow him for the life, joy and fulfilment he gives you right now?
Tony Campolo
#59. If economies collapse and lawlessness rules and resources are scarce, many people who claim with their mouths that they follow Jesus ... will abandon him with their lives.
Brandon Andress
#60. Following Jesus in faith is to walk with him in the communion of the Church. You cannot follow Jesus alone.
Pope Benedict XVI
#61. Jesus, I know I am a sinner. I want to repent of my sins and turn and follow You. I believe You died for my sins and rose again victorious over the power of sin and death, and I want to accept You as my personal Savior. Come into my life, Lord Jesus, and help me obey You from this day forward. Amen.
Elizabeth George
#62. Jesus goes on before to Jerusalem and to the cross, and they are filled with fear and amazement at the road he calls them to follow.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#63. Make sure of your commitment to Jesus Christ, and seek to follow Him every day. Don't be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and His will first in everything you do.
Billy Graham
#64. That's when I realize that if anyone's an oxymoron, it's me. Or maybe it's anyone who claims to follow Jesus.
Rachel Held Evans
#65. Sometimes you have to smile by faith. If you'll smile by faith, soon the joy will follow.
Joel Osteen
#66. Jesus doesn't come asking if He can hang out with us. He commands us to follow Him. He has total authority and will settle for nothing less; He won't settle for being an accessory, an add- on, or a peaceful accompaniment to a nice life. No, He will rule and He will meddle.
Justin Buzzard
#67. Peter's destiny lay along a different path from John's. And your calling is unlike anyone else's. But the call remains the same: Follow Me!
Charles R. Swindoll
#68. Don't let your hopes or fears come between you and Jesus; follow hard after Him. He will never fail you.
Charles Spurgeon
#69. America was built on rugged individualism, and today that has evolved into a culture of narcissism. But God didn't create you to live for you. If you want to follow Jesus, you have to put aside your selfish ambition.
Rick Warren
#70. A community of Jesus which seeks to hide itself has ceased to follow him.
John R.W. Stott
#71. How do we find the Lord? I believe we have to seek Him in simple things. I believe we have to seek Him in personal prayer. I believe we must seek Him in personal service. I believe we seek and find Jesus when we follow His example.
Thomas S. Monson
#72. When we learn to truly follow Jesus, we find that obedience to God comes from the inside out. Submission to what God wants for our lives flows naturally out of that relationship.
Kyle Idleman
#73. Some come and go quickly, but nevertheless serve a purpose in the lives of those who participate. Only twelve people originally signed up to follow Jesus as disciples, and one of those backed out at the last minute!
Robert Schnase
#74. Their faith was based on such a strong personal experience of the dead and risen Christ that they feared nothing and no one, and even saw persecution as a cause of honor that enabled them to follow in Jesus' footsteps and to be like him, witnessing with their life.
Pope Francis
#75. Jesus is the good Shepherd going before His sheep, bidding them follow Him, and ever leading them onwards with the sweet word, Come.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#76. When all is said and done, one of our rewards may be praise, but the greater reward is being faithful to follow our Lor and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Elizabeth George
#77. The real challenge the rich young man faced was not just giving up his possessions, but giving up himself. The last command Jesus says ("Come, follow me") is the one that we so often overlook and think that he must have left Jesus simply because he liked his green bills.
George Weigel
#78. And this is why Jesus came: to endure the holy wrath of God due us.
David Platt
#79. Without a thorough conviction of sin, men may seem to come to Jesus and follow Him for a season, but they will soon fall away and return to the world.
J.C. Ryle
#80. [The 10-Second Rule's] power is in its simplicity, and yet it gets straight to the heart of what it means to actually follow Jesus.
Clare De Graaf
#81. Those who aren't following Jesus aren't his followers. It's that simple. Followers follow, and those who don't follow aren't followers. To follow Jesus means to follow Jesus into a society where justice rules, where love shapes everything. To follow Jesus means to take up his dream and work for it.
Scot McKnight
#82. It's not easy to follow Jesus' example, and if you go to church it doesn't mean you're automatically doing it.
David O. Russell
#83. Christmas is, for those who wish to follow the way of Jesus, an invitation to accept into our comfortable and safe lives those who come to us from far away, who seem ragged, marginal, in transition.
Jay Parini
#84. The journey begins, though, with understanding what it means to be a christian. To say you believe in Jesus apart from conversion in your life completely misses the essence of what it means to follow him. Do not be deceived.
David Platt
#85. You can no more trust Jesus and not intend to obey him than you could trust your doctor and your auto mechanic and not intend to follow their advice. If you don't intend to follow their advice, you simply don't trust them. Period.
Dallas Willard
#86. Don't overcomplicate God's will. Just stay connected to Jesus. Love Him. Look into His eyes. He will lead. Follow. Repeat.
Louie Giglio
#87. We should never intentionally offend, but if you follow Jesus, you will offend religious people.
Darrin Patrick
#88. If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior.
Albert Einstein
#89. Trying to follow Jesus part-time or halfhearted is impossible. The relationship he wants with you requires your whole heart. And fans should know that his terms are not negotiable. So before you say, "I want to be a follower," be sure you understand what it's going to cost you.
Kyle Idleman
#90. Of course God does outrageous things. But in reality, what insanity would prompt me to follow a God who did anything less?
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#91. To not follow Jesus is to be unmoved. To be unmoved is to risk the greatest danger of all: To misunderstand and misrepresent God.
Ronnie McBrayer
#92. Christ came to save us. If we have taken a wrong course, the Atonement of Jesus Christ can give us the assurance that sin is not a point of no return. A safe return is possible if we will follow God's plan for our salvation
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#93. The Bible doesn't teach you to follow rules. It is a picture of Jesus. While words may tell you what God is like and even what he may want from you, you cannot do any of it on your own. Life and living are in him and in no other.
Wm. Paul Young
#94. People who follow Jesus, though, are no longer typical - God is constantly inviting them into a life that moves away from typical.
Bob Goff
#95. As we follow that Man of Galilee-even the Lord Jesus Christ-our personal influence will be felt for good wherever we are, whatever our callings.
Thomas S. Monson
#96. When Jesus defines the relationship he wants with us he makes it clear that being a fan who believes without making any real commitment to follow isn't an option.
Kyle Idleman
#97. We might be wise to follow the insight of the enraptured heart rather than the more cautious reasoning of the theological mind.
A.W. Tozer
#98. Peter must have thought, "Who am I compared to Mr. Faithfulness (John)?" But Jesus clarified the issue. John was responsible for John. Peter was responsible for Peter. And each had only one command to heed: "Follow Me." (John 21:20-22)
Charles R. Swindoll
#99. People can meet God within their cultural context but in order to follow God, they must cross into other cultures because that's what Jesus did in the incarnation and on the cross.
Christena Cleveland
#100. If we follow the example of Jesus Christ and become true peacemakers, that flood of love will cover the earth as with a blanket.
Theodore M. Burton
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