Watchman Nee Quotes

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.

Good is not always God's will, but God's will is always good.

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.

God is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ.

There is nothing more tragic than to come to the end of life and know we have been on the wrong course.

If Christ lives in us, we will rejoice in everything, and we will thank and praise the Lord. We will say, 'Hallelujah! Praise the Lord' forever.

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.

Our bread is not only the Word of God, our meat is not only to do His will, our bread is also...the difficulties that are in our way.

The Christian experience, from start to finish, is a journey of faith.

If you would test the character of anything, you only need to enquire whether that thing leads you to God or away from God.

The Blood deals with what we have done, whereas the Cross deals with what we are. The Blood disposes of our sins, while the Cross strikes at the root of our capacity for sin.

We think of the Christian life as a ‘changed life’ but it is not that. What God offers us is an ‘exchanged life,’ a ‘substituted life,’ and Christ is our Substitute within.

A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.

The Christian faith begins not with a big DO but with a big DONE.

The fruit of the Spirit is . . . self-control

Why do so many Christians pray such tiny prayers when their God is so big?

Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian's heart; man cannot.

Everyone who believes in God must have His revelation in his spirit, or else what he believes is not God but mere human wisdom, ideals or words. Such faith cannot endure the test.

Our prayers lay the track down which Gods power can come. Like a mighty locomotive, his power is irresistible, but it cannot reach us without rails.

I want nothing for myself; I want everything for the Lord.

God will answer all our questions in one way and one way only. Namely, by showing us more of his Son.

Outside Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full.

Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.

Baptism is an outward expression of an inward faith.

The 'flesh' is too bad to be cleansed; it must be crucified.

May we always be possessed by the consciousness that we are not our own.

Our rest lies in looking to the Lord, not to ourselves.

The life of faith is not only totally different from, but also diametrically opposite to, a life of feeling.

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.

Lord, I am willing to break my heart in order that I may satisfy Thy heart!

With complete consecration comes perfect peace.

People who are lazy, careless, doubtful-minded or arrogant need not expect God to reveal His secret or covenant to them.

The sight of any trouble strikes terror into the heart of those who do not have faith, but those who trust Him say, ‘Here comes my food.!

The Lord has shown me that I can do anything, but that He has said, apart from Me ye can do nothing. So it comes to this, that everything I have done, and can still do apart from Him is nothing!

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.

Not until we take the place of a servant can He take His place as Lord.

Separation to God, separation from the world, is the first principle of Christian living.

To keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears -- THAT is Christianity!

By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever!

God has supplied all my needs and has not failed me once.

We must have a spirit of power towards the enemy, a spirit of love towards men, and a spirit of self-control towards ourselves.

I must first have the sense of God's possession of me before I can have the sense of His presence with me.

A drowning man cannot be saved until he is utterly exhausted and ceases to make the slightest effort to save himself.

The Spirit is both a builder and a dweller. He cannot dwell where he has not built; He builds to dwell and dwells in only what he has built.

We may be weak, but looking at our weakness will never make us strong.

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.

We work because we have not seen the work of Christ.

All satanic works are performed from the outside inward; all divine works from the inside outward.

An affection which is not inspired by the Lord will soon be transformed into lust. Samson is not alone in the history of man in failing in this regard. Delilah is still cutting the hair of man today!

Genuine spiritual knowledge lies not in wonderful and mysterious thoughts but in actual spiritual experience through union of the believer's life with truth.