Watchman Nee Quotes
Genuine spiritual knowledge lies not in wonderful and mysterious thoughts but in actual spiritual experience through union of the believer's life with truth.
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.
The Christian life from start to finish is based upon this principle of utter dependence upon the Lord Jesus.
And it is through conflict that God induces the believer to seek and to grasp total triumph in Christ.
How true it is that without the guidance of the Holy Spirit intellect not only is undependable but also extremely dangerous, because it often confuses the issue of right and wrong.
A person who wholly follows the Lord is one who believes that the promises of God are trustworthy, that He is with His people, and that they are well able to overcome.
True revelation of the fact of the Spirit's indwelling will revolutionize the life of any Christian.
Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee, That we his evil power may bind, His prisoners to free.
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.
True spiritual life depends not on probing our feelings and thoughts from dawn to dusk but on 'looking off' to the Savior!
The idea of waste only comes into our Christianity when we underestimate the worth of our Lord.
Do not be taken in or flattered by your own success or fame. Take not only as to whether or not the old creation, including everything which comes by birth, has gone through the cross.
The particular sin of omission which gives ground to the evil spirits is the believer’s passivity.
God will not give me humility, or patience, or holiness, or love as separate investments of His grace. He has given only one gift to meet our need, His Son Christ Jesus.
Natural strength is what we receive from the hand of God as Creator. Spiritual strength is what we receive from God in grace.
Victory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience.
When the fruit of your service is out of all proportion to the gifts you possess, THAT is Blessing!
A mistaken thought may be corrected easily, but an errant affection is nearly unmanageable.
May the things of this world so lose their power over us that we do not in the slightest wish to be 'worldly'; nay, we even delight in not remaining 'in the world.'
Believers must persevere in prayer that they may see clearly their own pitiful state and understand the indwelling, working, and demands of the Holy Spirit.
We may infer from any defeat of ours that it is due either to lack of faith or failure to obey. No other reason can suffice.
Now is the hour we should humbly prostrate ourselves before God, willing to be convicted afresh of our sins by the Holy Spirit.
On at least four separate occasions and recorded in the four Gospels the Lord Jesus called His disciples to deny their soul life, deliver it to death, and then to follow Him.
If we just had more revelation of what we already have, there would be far less prayers and far more praise.
Just as the right relationship with Christ generates a Christian, so the proper relationship with the Holy Spirit breeds a spiritual man.
To secure one's freedom the Christian must experience God's light which is God's truth.
A spiritual Christian therefore is one whose spirit is led by God's Spirit... Perhaps their speech does convey truth, but without the quickening of the Holy Spirit even truth is of small advantage.
If the mind is open the individual will soon perceive the preciousness of a truth which initially appeared rather dull to him but now is illumined by the spirit's light.
We should try our best to pour out all the burdens in our spirit by prayer until all of them have left us.
Never adopt an attitude of indifference, for if you do you will suffer for it. The weight will grow heavier and heavier.
A Christian ought to realize what the weights laid on his spirit are. If he encounters it in the morning and does not deal with it at once, he experiences defeat the whole day long.
Fellowship means among other things that we are ready to receive of Christ from others. Other believers minister Christ to me, and I am ready to receive.
Satan can only attack us from the outside in. He may work through the lust and sensations of the body or through the mind and emotion of the soul, for those two belong to the outward man.
The gospel we preach must not be just something we hear from men or read from books or even conceived through our meditation. Unless it is delivered to us by God, it can serve no spiritual utility.
They spend more time in analyzing, in collecting materials, and in hard thinking than on prayer, on seeking God's mind, and on waiting for the power from above.
