As 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.
WATCHMAN NEEFrequently 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.
More Watchman Nee Quotes
-
-
Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian’s heart; man cannot.
WATCHMAN NEE -
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.
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 -
If you would test the character of anything, you only need to enquire whether that thing leads you to God or away from God.
WATCHMAN NEE -
I need forgiveness for my sins, but I need also deliverance from the power of sin… I appreciate the blessed fact of God’s forgiveness, but I want something more than that: I want deliverance. I need forgiveness for what I have done, but I need also deliverance from what I am.
WATCHMAN NEE -
Christ is the Son of God. He died to atone for men’s sin, and after three days rose again. This is the most important fact in the universe. I die believing in Christ.
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 -
God will answer all our questions in one way and one way only. Namely, by showing us more of his Son.
WATCHMAN NEE -
Take this as the secret of Christ’s life in you: His Spirit dwells in your innermost spirit. Meditate on it, believe in it, and remember it until this glorious truth produces within you a holy fear and wonderment that the Holy Spirit indeed abides in you.
WATCHMAN NEE -
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.
WATCHMAN NEE -
People who are lazy, careless, doubtful-minded or arrogant need not expect God to reveal His secret or covenant to them.
WATCHMAN NEE -
He who is able to accept everything gladly from the Lord – including darkness, dryness, flatness – and completely disregard self is he who lives for Him.
WATCHMAN NEE -
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.
WATCHMAN NEE -
I have been defeated; in Christ, I am already victorious. How meaningful are the words, “in Christ.”
WATCHMAN NEE -
Samson is not alone in the history of man in failing in this regard. Delilah is still cutting the hair of man today!
WATCHMAN NEE






