More Quotes by Watchman Nee
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 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.
Separation to God, separation from the world, is the first principle of Christian living.
God is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ.
The Christian life from start to finish is based upon this principle of utter dependence upon the Lord Jesus.
God asks for men who are totally broken and who will follow Him even to death to work for Him.
The breaking of the alabaster box and the anointing of the Lord filled the house with the odor, with the sweetest odor. 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, just being satisfied with Him and nothing else, immediately you scent the fragrance. There is a savor of the Lord. Something has been crushed, something has been broken, and there is a resulting odor of sweetness.
The cross grants us position, the Holy Spirit gives us experience.
Not until we take the place of a servant can He take His place as Lord.
