Quotes from Watchman Nee

True revelation of the fact of the Spirit's indwelling will revolutionize the life of any Christian.

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.

The cares of this life emerge as very small items indeed along our daily path.

Natural strength is what we receive from the hand of God as Creator. Spiritual strength is what we receive from God in grace.

Since this life is God's and cannot die, it follows that everyone born anew into possessing this life is said to have eternal life.

From the evening I was saved, I began to live a new life, for the life of the eternal God had entered into me.

The attitude of saints toward their possessions most assuredly signifies whether they continue to preserve their self life or whether they have consigned it to death.

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

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.

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.!

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

To secure one's freedom the Christian must experience God's light which is God's truth.

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.

Knowing the truth concerning the deep workings of the evil spirit helps the individual not only to overcome sins but to eliminate unnecessary afflictions as well.

Only as they cease to seek anything by themselves and only as they take the position of the teachable shall they be taught by the Spirit truth which they are able to digest.

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.

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.

Do we not realize that the basic condition for a spiritual walk is to fear our self and its wisdom and to rely absolutely upon the Spirit?

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.

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

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.

Whatever the mind sets itself on is what the man walks after.

Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian's heart; man cannot. The failure of many is to seek from man what can be found only in God. All human affection is empty; the love of God alone is able to fully satisfy one's desire. The moment a Christian seeks a love outside God his spiritual life immediately falls.