More Quotes by Watchman Nee
Separation to God, separation from the world, is the first principle of Christian living.
A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.
Negligence in prayer withers the inner man. Nothing can be a substitute for it, not even Christian work. Many are so preoccupied with work that they allow little time for prayer. Hence they cannot cast out demons. Prayer enables us first inwardly to overcome the enemy and then outwardly to deal with him.
There is nothing more tragic than to come to the end of life and know we have been on the wrong course.
If you would test the character of anything, you only need to enquire whether that thing leads you to God or away from God.
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. 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.
It does not matter what your personal deficiency, or whether it be a hundred and one different things, God has always one sufficient answer, His Son Jesus Christ, and he is the answer to every need.
The cross grants us position, the Holy Spirit gives us experience.
To keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears -- THAT is Christianity!
The Christian life from start to finish is based upon this principle of utter dependence upon the Lord Jesus.
