Matthew 10:37

He that loveth father or mother more than me. — The words are important, partly in themselves, partly as explaining the stronger phrase of Luke 14:26, which speaks of a man “hating father or mother” as a condition of discipleship. Where two affections come into collision, the weaker must give way; and though the man may not and ought not to cease to love, yet he must act as if he hated — disobey, and, it may be, desert — those to whom he is bound by natural ties, that he may obey the higher supernatural calling.