To keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears — THAT is Christianity!
WATCHMAN NEETo keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears — THAT is Christianity!
WATCHMAN NEEWe think of the Christian life as a ‘changed life’ but it is not that. What God offers us is an ‘exchanged life,’ a ‘substituted life,’ and Christ is our Substitute within.
WATCHMAN NEEGod will answer all our questions in one way and one way only. Namely, by showing us more of his Son.
WATCHMAN NEEThe Christian faith begins not with a big DO but with a big DONE.
WATCHMAN NEEChristians ought to eliminate their folly. They ought to adopt God’s view of the absolute impossibility for their natural walk to please Him. They must dare to allow the Holy Spirit to point out to them every corruption of the soul life.
WATCHMAN NEEThe cross grants us position, the Holy Spirit gives us experience.
WATCHMAN NEEHow true it is that without the guidance of the Holy Spirit intellect not only is undependable but also extremely dangerous, because it often confuses the issue of right and wrong.
WATCHMAN NEEThere is nothing more tragic than to come to the end of life and know we have been on the wrong course.
WATCHMAN NEEA born-again person ought to possess unspeakable peace in the spirit.
WATCHMAN NEEThe 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.
WATCHMAN NEEA Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.
WATCHMAN NEEWe must not pay attention just to reading and studying; rather, we should ask if we are open before the Lord. If we do not have an unveiled face, the glory of the Lord will not shine on us. If our heart is not open to God, God cannot give us any light.
WATCHMAN NEEThe breaking of the alabaster box and the anointing of the Lord filled the house with the odor, with the sweetest odor.
WATCHMAN NEEWhatever the mind sets itself on is what the man walks after.
WATCHMAN NEEThe life of faith is not only totally different from, but also diametrically opposite to, a life of feeling.
WATCHMAN NEEThe Spirit is both a builder and a dweller. He cannot dwell where he has not built; He builds to dwell and dwells in only what he has built.
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