More Quotes by Watchman Nee
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.
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.
God asks for men who are totally broken and who will follow Him even to death to work for Him.
There is nothing more tragic than to come to the end of life and know we have been on the wrong course.
We must have a spirit of power towards the enemy, a spirit of love towards men, and a spirit of self-control towards ourselves.
To keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears -- THAT is Christianity!
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.
If you would test the character of anything, you only need to enquire whether that thing leads you to God or away from God.
I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher. 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.
Separation to God, separation from the world, is the first principle of Christian living.
