"Overcoming sin, blessed though it surely is, is……" — Watchman Nee
"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."
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150 Quotes by Watchman Nee
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The right attitude is this: that I have my own will, yet I will the will of God.
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Without this heart attitude it is exceedingly difficult for us to accept the circumcision of the flesh. Every affection, desire,…
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Most soulish believers assume an attitude of self-righteousness, though often it is scarcely detectable. They hold tenaciously to their minute…
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The attitude of saints toward their possessions most assuredly signifies whether they continue to preserve their self life or whether…
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When a believer has crossed into the domain of the spiritual he daily ought to maintain a combat attitude in…
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In the matter of fellowship God looks not at how much we apprehend of His will but rather at what…
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Never adopt an attitude of indifference, for if you do you will suffer for it. The weight will grow heavier…
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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…
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God will answer all our questions in one way and one way only. Namely, by showing us more of his…
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On at least four separate occasions and recorded in the four Gospels the Lord Jesus called His disciples to deny…
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Because the Lord Jesus died on the Cross, I have received forgiveness of sins; because the Lord Jesus rose from…
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Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee, That we his evil power may bind, His…
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More Astonish Quotes
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In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds.
— David Blaine
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
— Paul Cezanne
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What continues to astonish me about a garden is that you can walk past it in a hurry, see something…
— Dorothy Gilman
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That no generally applicable law of the formulation and development of hybrids has yet been successfully formulated can hardly astonish…
— Gregor Mendel
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My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean…
— Maya Angelou
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The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got…
— Eugene Ionesco
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All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one…
— Clive James
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What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince.
— Lucian Freud
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The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not…
— Garet Garrett
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Everybody is I, you all know you are you. And wheresoever's beings exist throughout all galaxies it doesn't any difference.…
— Alan Watts
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The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but…
— Terry Southern
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