Lord, I am willing to break my heart in order that I may satisfy Thy heart!
WATCHMAN NEEFood ought not hinder our fellowship with God since it is to be taken purely to preserve the body in health.
More Watchman Nee Quotes
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The greatest negative in the universe is the Cross, for with it God wiped out everything that was not of Himself: the greatest positive in the universe is the resurrection, for through it God brought into being all.
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He who is able to accept everything gladly from the Lord – including darkness, dryness, flatness – and completely disregard self is he who lives for Him.
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We must have a spirit of power towards the enemy, a spirit of love towards men, and a spirit of self-control towards ourselves.
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Separation to God, separation from the world, is the first principle of Christian living.
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It is important to receive God’s arrangement in the circumstances. This arrangement is the discipline of the Holy Spirit. To escape God’s arrangement just one time is to lose an opportunity to have our capacity enlarged. A believer can never be the same after passing through suffering.
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Why do so many Christians pray such tiny prayers when their God is so big?
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The right attitude is this: that I have my own will, yet I will the will of God.
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Often Satan injects pride into the believer’s spirit, evoking in him an attitude of self-importance and of self-conceit. He causes him to esteem himself a very outstanding person, one who is indispensable in God’s work. Such a spirit constitutes one of the major reasons for the fall of believers.
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I have been defeated; in Christ, I am already victorious. How meaningful are the words, “in Christ.”
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As God’s child advances spiritually be shall discover that the Lord’s time is as important as the Lord’s will. Do not rashly beget an Ishmael lest he become the greatest enemy to Isaac.
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The life of faith is not only totally different from, but also diametrically opposite to, a life of feeling.
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It does not matter what your personal deficiency, or whether it be a hundred and one different things,
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Prayer enables us first inwardly to overcome the enemy and then outwardly to deal with him.
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Man’s thought is always of the punishment that will come to him if he sins. But God’s thought is always of the glory man will miss if he sins. God’s purpose for redemption is glory, glory, glory.
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To keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears — THAT is Christianity!
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