Quotes from Watchman Nee

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.

Many Christians are unaware how drastically the cross must work so that ultimately their natural power for living may be denied.

For Christianity begins not with a big do, but with a big done.

The vessel through which the Lord Jesus can reveal Himself in this generation is not the individual, but the body of Christ. True, "God hath dealt to each man a measure of faith" (12:3), but alone in isolation man can never fulfill God's purpose. It requires a complete body of Christ to attain to the stature of Christ and to display His glory.

Because it has been so united with the devil it is vital for man to receive from God a change of mind before he can receive a new heart.

Authority in the world is being increasingly undermined until at the end all authorities will be overthrown and lawlessness shall rule.

The author sees Joseph of Genesis as a type of Christ's Pentecostal power. He who was thought dead has been raised in power, and the power is evident in the chariot he sends for his own.

Whenever man touches God's delegated authority he touches God within that person; sinning against delegated authority is sinning against God.

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.

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.

God's ways with us are all designed to establish in us this other principle, namely, that our work for Him springs out of our ministering to Him. I do not mean that we are going to do nothing; but the first thing for us must be the Lord Himself, not His work.

Let me say from conviction that tears are the outlet of the heart.