God asks for men who are totally broken and who will follow Him even to death to work for Him.
WATCHMAN NEEAs 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.
More Watchman Nee Quotes
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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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I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher.
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Why do so many Christians pray such tiny prayers when their God is so big?
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I must first have the sense of God’s possession of me before I can have the sense of His presence with me.
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God is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ.
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We 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.
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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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At times it seems we require more grace to lose our wealth than to lose our life!
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God will answer all our questions in one way and one way only. Namely, by showing us more of his Son.
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Numerous Christians do not know how to glorify God in their eating and drinking. They do not eat and drink simply to keep their body fit for the Lord’s use but indulge to satisfy their personal desires.
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There is a line drawn by God, a boundary where by virtue of his own very presence Satan’s writ does not run. Let God but occupy all the space himself, and what room is left for the evil one?
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To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual.
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They must exercise faith in believing God’s estimation of their natural life and must wait patiently for the Holy Spirit to reveal in them what the Bible says of them. Only in this manner will they be led in the way of deliverance.
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May we always be possessed by the consciousness that we are not our own.
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I consecrate myself to God to do His will where I am, be it in school, office, or kitchen, or wherever He may, in His wisdom, send me.
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