Revelation is the first step to holiness, and consecration is the second. A day must come in our lives, as definite as the day of our conversion, when we give up all right to ourselves and submit to the absolute Lordship of Jesus Christ.
WATCHMAN NEENegligence in prayer withers the inner man. Nothing can be a substitute for it, not even Christian work.
More Watchman Nee Quotes
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At times it seems we require more grace to lose our wealth than to lose our life!
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The Lord has shown me that I can do anything, but that He has said, apart from Me ye can do nothing. So it comes to this, that everything I have done, and can still do apart from Him is nothing!
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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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By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever!
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A person like this is the strongest person. The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do.
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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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Just being satisfied with Him and nothing else, immediately you scent the fragrance. There is a savor of the Lord. Something has been crushed, something has been broken, and there is a resulting odor of sweetness.
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To bear the cross means that you refrain from doing what you have the power to do. You are qualified to fulfill your desire, yet you refrain from doing so.
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Frequently the enemy entices Christians to harbor an unforgiving spirit – a very common symptom indeed among God’s children. Such bitterness and fault-finding and enmity inflict a severe blow upon spiritual life.
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There is nothing more tragic than to come to the end of life and know we have been on the wrong course.
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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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Victory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience.
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The child of God ought to confess his weakness that he does not know how to pray, and petition the Holy Spirit to teach him.
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Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.
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Our bread is not only the Word of God, our meat is not only to do His will, our bread is also…the difficulties that are in our way.
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