1. “I want nothing for myself; I want everything for the Lord.” – Watchman Nee
2. “We should try our best to pour out all the burdens in our spirit by prayer until all of them have left us.” – Watchman Nee
3. “Whatever the mind sets itself on is what the man walks after.” – Watchman Nee
4. “It is so easy to become more attached to the gifts of God than to the Giver—and even, I should add, to the work of God than to God Himself.” – Watchman Nee
5. “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.” – Watchman Nee
6. “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.” – Watchman Nee
7. “It is important to receive God’s arrangement in the circumstances. This arrangement is the discipline of the Holy Spirit. To escape God’s arrangement just one time is to lose an opportunity to have our capacity enlarged. A believer can never be the same after passing through suffering.” – Watchman Nee
8. “It is a great thing when I discover I am no longer my own but His. If the ten shillings in my pocket belong to me, then I have full authority over them. But if they belong to another who has committed them to me in trust, then I cannot buy what I please with them, and I dare not lose them. Real Christian life begins with knowing this.” – Watchman Nee
9. “All satanic works are performed from the outside inward; all divine works from the inside outward.” – Watchman Nee
10. “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.” – Watchman Nee
11. “True spiritual life depends not on probing our feelings and thoughts from dawn to dusk but on ‘looking off’ to the Savior!” – Watchman Nee
12. “Nothing is wrong with the inlet: It is the outlet that is obstructed. The water of life does not spring forth because the flow has no way through. Were the outlet cleared, the water of life would flow unceasingly. What a child of God needs is not more life but more flow of life.” – Watchman Nee
13. “Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee, That we his evil power may bind, His prisoners to free.” – Watchman Nee
14. “Let me say from conviction that tears are the outlet of the heart.” – Watchman Nee
15. “A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.” – Watchman Nee
16. “The Christian experience, from start to finish, is a journey of faith.” – Watchman Nee
17. “Our prayers lay the track down which God’s power can come.” – Watchman Nee
18. “Lord, I am willing to break MY heart that I might satisfy THY heart.” – Watchman Nee
19. “For Christianity begins not with a big do, but with a big done.” – Watchman Nee
20. “And it is through conflict that God induces the believer to seek and to grasp total triumph in Christ.” – Watchman Nee
21. “God is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness, but a manifestation of His Christ.” – Watchman Nee
22. “The right attitude is this: that I have my own will, yet I will the will of God.” – Watchman Nee
23. “May we always be possessed by the consciousness that we are not our own.” – Watchman Nee
24. “We may be weak, but looking at our weakness will never make us strong.” – Watchman Nee
25. “How dangerous a master human emotion is!” – Watchman Nee
26. “Every true work is not done to the poor. Every true work is done to Me.” – Watchman Nee
27. “By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever!” – Watchman Nee
28. “Sitting describes our position with Christ in the heavenlies. Walking is the practical outworking of that heavenly position here on earth.” – Watchman Nee
29. “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?” – Watchman Nee
30. “A drowning man cannot be saved until he is utterly exhausted and ceases to make the slightest effort to save himself.” – Watchman Nee
31. “Baptism is faith in action.” – Watchman Nee
32. “Good is not always God’s will, but God’s will is always good.” – Watchman Nee
33. “Our rest lies in looking to the Lord, not to ourselves.” – Watchman Nee
34. “At times it seems we require more grace to lose our wealth than to lose our life!” – Watchman Nee
35. “The greatest negative in the universe is the Cross, for with it God wiped out everything that was not of Himself: the greatest positive in the universe is the resurrection, for through it God brought into being all.” – Watchman Nee
36. “The daily life of the Christian can be summed up in one word: receive.” – Watchman Nee
37. “Without this heart attitude it is exceedingly difficult for us to accept the circumcision of the flesh. Every affection, desire, thought, knowledge, intent, worship, and work of the flesh must go to the cross.” – Watchman Nee
38. “The life of faith can be called the life of the will since faith is impervious to how one feels but chooses through volition to obey God’s mind.” – Watchman Nee
39. “We must be brought to a place where, naturally gifted though we may be, we dare not speak except in conscious and continual dependence on Him.” – Watchman Nee
40. “The reason for so many defeats in the spiritual realm is because this sector of the soul has not been dealt with drastically.” – Watchman Nee
41. “All knowledge is the outgrowth of obedience; everything else is just information.” – Watchman Nee
42. “With complete consecration comes perfect peace.” – Watchman Nee
43. “Natural strength is what we receive from the hand of God as Creator. Spiritual strength is what we receive from God in grace.” – Watchman Nee
44. “Now is the hour we should humbly prostrate ourselves before God, willing to be convicted afresh of our sins by the Holy Spirit.” – Watchman Nee
45. “Outside of Christ, I am only a sinner, but in Christ, I am saved. Outside of Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full. Outside of Christ, I am weak; in Christ, I am strong. Outside of Christ, I cannot; in Christ, I am more than able. Outside of Christ, I have been defeated; in Christ, I am already victorious. How meaningful are the words, “in Christ.”” – Watchman Nee
46. “Outside Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full.” – Watchman Nee
47. “Spiritual advancement is measured by faithful obedience.” – Watchman Nee
48. “Separation to God, separation from the world, is the first principle of Christian living.” – Watchman Nee
49. “If you have not experienced the death of self, your spiritual life will have little real progress.” – Watchman Nee
50. “An unpeaceful mind cannot operate normally.” – Watchman Nee
51. “Long-lasting victory can never be separated from a long-lasting stand on the foundation of the cross.” – Watchman Nee
52. “We recognize already that regeneration of the spirit is the paramount need of man.” – Watchman Nee
53. “Genuine spiritual knowledge lies not in wonderful and mysterious thoughts but in actual spiritual experience through union of the believer’s life with truth.” – Watchman Nee
54. “The cross grants us position, the Holy Spirit gives us experience.” – Watchman Nee
55. “Prayer is the acid test of the inner man’s strength. A strong spirit is capable of praying much and praying with all perseverance until the answer comes. A weak one grows weary and fainthearted in the maintenance of praying.” – Watchman Nee
56. “Authority in the world is being increasingly undermined until at the end all authorities will be overthrown and lawlessness shall rule.” – Watchman Nee
57. “It is not a matter of how many loaves we have in our hands, but whether or not God has blessed them.” – Watchman Nee
58. “Only those who sit can stand. Our power for standing, as for walking, lies in our having first been made to sit together with Christ. The Christian’s walk and warfare alike derive their strength from his position there. If he is not sitting before God he cannot hope to stand before the enemy.” – Watchman Nee
59. “A mistaken thought may be corrected easily, but an errant affection is nearly unmanageable.” – Watchman Nee
60. “With fear and trembling we must rely upon God for guidance in the inner depths. This is the sole way to walk according to the spirit.” – Watchman Nee
61. “God will answer all our questions in one way and one way only. Namely, by showing us more of his Son.” – Watchman Nee
62. “If you would test the character of anything, you only need to enquire whether that thing leads you to God or away from God.” – Watchman Nee
63. “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.” – Watchman Nee
64. “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.” – Watchman Nee
65. “I must first have the sense of God’s possession of me before I can have the sense of His presence with me.” – Watchman Nee
66. “Only if we completely acknowledge that what man requires today is God’s life: the quickening of the spirit: will we then perceive how vain is any work performed by ourselves.” – Watchman Nee
67. “The Christian life from start to finish is based upon this principle of utter dependence upon the Lord Jesus.” – Watchman Nee
68. “A spiritual Christian should welcome any burden which the Lord brings his way.” – Watchman Nee
69. “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.” – Watchman Nee
70. “Just as the right relationship with Christ generates a Christian, so the proper relationship with the Holy Spirit breeds a spiritual man.” – Watchman Nee
71. “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.” – Watchman Nee
72. “How pitiful it must be when the flesh gains dominion. Sin has slain the spirit:.” – Watchman Nee
73. “We work because we have not seen the work of Christ.” – Watchman Nee
74. “Man’s thought is always of the punishment that will come to him if he sins. God’s thought is always of the glory man will miss if he sins. God’s purpose for redemption is glory, glory, glory.” – Watchman Nee
75. “power of the Holy Spirit is superabundant.” – Watchman Nee
76. “Do not be impatient for impatience is of the flesh. Do not try different methods because they are useful solely in helping the flesh. We must distrust the flesh entirely.” – Watchman Nee
77. “The ‘flesh’ is too bad to be cleansed; it must be crucified.” – Watchman Nee
78. “The life of faith is not only totally different from, but also diametrically opposite to, a life of feeling.” – Watchman Nee
79. “We all have the same Christ dwelling within, but revelation of some new need will lead us spontaneously to trust Him to live out His life in in that particular.” – Watchman Nee
80. “The Christian faith begins not with a big DO but with a big DONE.” – Watchman Nee
81. “We may love to say many things, but if these are not uttered in the Holy Spirit it is better to say nothing. The flesh can conjure up many plans and methods and be full of expectations. The righteousness of the flesh is as abhorrent as its sin we must always maintain God’s view of the flesh.” – Watchman Nee
82. “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.” – Watchman Nee
83. “Whenever man touches God’s delegated authority he touches God within that person; sinning against delegated authority is sinning against God.” – Watchman Nee
84. “Let us not argue over our being labeled as either spiritual or carnal. If we are not governed by the Holy Spirit what profit will the mere designation of spiritual be to us? This is after all a matter of life, not of title.” – Watchman Nee
85. “Oh, Lord, you have indeed been gracious to me.” – Watchman Nee
86. “Why do so many Christians pray such tiny prayers when their God is so big?” – Watchman Nee
87. “If we just had more revelation of what we already have, there would be far less prayers and far more praise.” – Watchman Nee
88. “When one tries to increase his knowledge by doing mental gymnastics over books without waiting upon God and looking to the guidance of the Holy Spirit, his soul is plainly in full swing. This will deplete his spiritual life. Because the fall of man was occasioned by seeking knowledge, God uses the foolishness of the cross to “destroy the wisdom of the wise.” – Watchman Nee
89. “A born-again person ought to possess unspeakable peace in the spirit.” – Watchman Nee
90. “Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.” – Watchman Nee
91. “When the fruit of your service is out of all proportion to the gifts you possess, THAT is Blessing!” – Watchman Nee
92. “From the evening I was saved, I began to live a new life, for the life of the eternal God had entered into me.” – Watchman Nee
93. “The soul seeks to retain its authority and move independently, while the spirit strives to possess and master everything for the maintenance of God’s authority.” – Watchman Nee
94. “So we can say, reverently, that God never gave us the Law to keep: he gave us the Law to break! He well knew that we could not keep it.” – Watchman Nee
95. “The glory which God had in the beginning, even the unapproachable glory of God, was also the Son’s glory. The Father and the Son exist equally and are equal in power and possession.” – Watchman Nee
96. “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.” -” – Watchman Nee
97. “The burden imparted by God is lifted once we have prayed, but the heaviness from the enemy cannot be raised unless we fight and resist in prayer.” – Watchman Nee
98. “Victory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience.” – Watchman Nee
99. “The idea of waste only comes into our Christianity when we underestimate the worth of our Lord.” – Watchman Nee
100. “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.” – Watchman Nee
101. “Overcoming sin, blessed though it surely is, is but the bare minimum of a believers experience. There is nothing astonishing in it. Not to overcome sin is what ought to astonish us.” – Watchman Nee
102. “To secure one’s freedom the Christian must experience God’s light which is God’s truth.” – Watchman Nee
103. “Whatever is manufactured outwardly by our own effort is not real and is doomed to frustration and defeat.” – Watchman Nee
104. “The knowledge of Christ which is produced by man’s own cleverness and wisdom is not a rock that can stand firm.” – Watchman Nee
105. “Many confuse understanding with believing.” – Watchman Nee
106. “Attempting to follow Him without denying the self is the root of all failures.” – Watchman Nee
107. “We must have a spirit of power towards the enemy, a spirit of love towards men, and a spirit of self-control towards ourselves.” – Watchman Nee
108. “Not until we take the place of a servant can He take His place as Lord.” – Watchman Nee
109. “There is nothing more tragic than to come to the end of life and know we have been on the wrong course.” – Watchman Nee
110. “God in heaven will only bind and loose what His children” – Watchman Nee