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Religion Quotes by Watchman Nee

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Watchman Nee teaches that prayer brings revelation and lets the old self die while the spirit lives with Christ. He says we must rely on God with fear and trembling to find guidance. He also explains that true strength comes from God’s grace, not just physical power.

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Baptism is faith in action.

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Baptism is an outward expression of an inward faith.

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The note of hallelujah must never be in short supply in the spirit of the believer.

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A spiritual Christian should welcome any burden which the Lord brings his way.

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

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The particular sin of omission which gives ground to the evil spirits is the believer’s passivity.

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Spiritual advancement is measured by faithful obedience.

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

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

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The cross grants us position, the Holy Spirit gives us experience.

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The clerical system of church management is exceedingly popular, but the whole thought is foreign to Scripture.

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

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A Christian ought to realize what the weights laid on his spirit are. If he encounters it in the morning and does…

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

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Everyone who believes in God must have His revelation in his spirit, or else what he believes is not God but mere…

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Death of the spirit is the cessation of its communication with God. Death of the body is the cutting off of communication…

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Frequently the enemy entices Christians to harbor an unforgiving spirit - a very common symptom indeed among God's children. Such bitterness and…

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“Every true spiritual experience means that we have discovered a certain fact in Christ and have entered into that. Anything that is…

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If whatever men know comes through their brain without the Holy Spirit regenerating their spirit, then their knowledge will help them not…

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The clerical system of church management is exceedingly popular, but the whole thought is foreign to Scripture. In a church all the…

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Prayer is the acid test of the inner man's strength. A strong spirit is capable of praying much and praying with all…

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It is not only the proclamation of the whole truth that is needed today; it is the release of the spiritual reality…

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Prayer is work. The experiences of many children of God demonstrate that it accomplishes far more than does any other form of…

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To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual. Life in the spirit is a suffering way, filled with…

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All spiritual prayers have their source in God. God makes known to us what we ought to pray by unfolding to us…

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Often Satan injects pride into the believer's spirit, evoking in him an attitude of self-importance and of self-conceit. He causes him to…

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Today, even amongst Christians, there can be found much of that spirit that wants to give as little as possible to the…

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The system of fathers of the world church, the clergy system of the state church, and the pastoral system of the independent…

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Frequently the burden or concern in the spirit is for prayer.

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We should try our best to pour out all the burdens in our spirit by prayer until all of them have left…

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A born-again person ought to possess unspeakable peace in the spirit.

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Only those who are spiritual perceive the reality of the spiritual foe and hence engage in battle. Such warfare is not fought…

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The gospel we preach must not be just something we hear from men or read from books or even conceived through our…

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True spiritual life depends not on probing our feelings and thoughts from dawn to dusk but on 'looking off' to the Savior!

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Mere mental assimilation of these truths cannot withstand temptation, however. The revelation of God is positively essential. The Spirit of God must…

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

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When a believer has crossed into the domain of the spiritual he daily ought to maintain a combat attitude in his spirit,…

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Do we not realize that the basic condition for a spiritual walk is to fear our self and its wisdom and to…

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Henceforth we are dead to everything pertaining to ourselves and alive to His Spirit alone. This requires our exercising faith.

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Christ is the Son of God. He died to atone for men's sin, and after three days rose again. This is the…

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If the mind is open the individual will soon perceive the preciousness of a truth which initially appeared rather dull to him but now…

The idea of waste only comes into our Christianity when we underestimate the worth of our Lord.

“Only those who are subject to authority can be authority.”

Henceforth we are dead to everything pertaining to ourselves and alive to His Spirit alone. This requires our exercising faith.

Victory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience.

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

Only those who are spiritual perceive the reality of the spiritual foe and hence engage in battle. Such warfare is not fought with arms…

It does not matter what your personal deficiency, or whether it be a hundred and one different things, God has always one sufficient answer,…

Never adopt an attitude of indifference, for if you do you will suffer for it. The weight will grow heavier and heavier.

None who are shod with fleshly shoes can stand on the holy ground of God's service. Many failures and much waste and confusion which…