I want nothing for myself; I want everything for the Lord.
WATCHMAN NEEThe Blood deals with what we have done, whereas the Cross deals with what we are. The Blood disposes of our sins, while the Cross strikes at the root of our capacity for sin.
More Watchman Nee Quotes
-
-
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.
WATCHMAN NEE -
Lord, I am willing to break my heart in order that I may satisfy Thy heart!
WATCHMAN NEE -
A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.
WATCHMAN NEE -
Christians 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 NEE -
Food ought not hinder our fellowship with God since it is to be taken purely to preserve the body in health.
WATCHMAN NEE -
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.
WATCHMAN NEE -
I am weak; in Christ, I am strong. Outside of Christ, I cannot; in Christ, I am more than able. Outside of Christ,
WATCHMAN NEE -
God has supplied all my needs and has not failed me once.
WATCHMAN NEE -
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.
WATCHMAN NEE -
Everyone could smell it. Whenever you meet someone who has really suffered; been limited, gone through things for the Lord, willing to be imprisoned by the Lord.
WATCHMAN NEE -
It does not matter what your personal deficiency, or whether it be a hundred and one different things,
WATCHMAN NEE -
We consider strong emotion or outward conduct as life. In reality, though, these are not life. We ought to realize that only the Lord is life. Christ is our life. And it is the Lord who lives out this life in us.
WATCHMAN NEE -
We should understand that the body is for the Lord and not for ourselves; hence we should refrain from using it for our pleasure.
WATCHMAN NEE -
The devil abhors light and truth because these remove the ground of his working.
WATCHMAN NEE -
The cross grants us position, the Holy Spirit gives us experience.
WATCHMAN NEE