There is nothing more tragic than to come to the end of life and know we have been on the wrong course.
WATCHMAN NEEOur rest lies in looking to the Lord, not to ourselves.
More Watchman Nee Quotes
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I want nothing for myself; I want everything for the Lord.
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Many are so preoccupied with work that they allow little time for prayer. Hence they cannot cast out demons.
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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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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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A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.
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The book of Acts is the best aid in approaching our work. We do not find there anyone consecrating himself as a preacher nor anyone deciding to do the Lord’s work by making himself a missionary or a pastor. What we do see is the Holy Spirit Himself appointing and sending men out to do the work.
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If we just had more revelation of what we already have, there would be far less prayers and far more praise.
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The breaking of the alabaster box and the anointing of the Lord filled the house with the odor, with the sweetest odor.
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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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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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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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God not only wants to break the outer man…He wants our spirit and our soul…our inner man and outer man to be separated from each other.
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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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I am weak; in Christ, I am strong. Outside of Christ, I cannot; in Christ, I am more than able. Outside of Christ,
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A born-again person ought to possess unspeakable peace in the spirit.
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