Top 180 Watchman Nee Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “The particular sin of omission which gives ground to the evil spirits is the believer’s passivity.”

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102. “It is a fact that the Lord Jesus has already died for you. It is also a fact that you have already died with the Lord Jesus. If you do not believe in your death with Christ, you will not be able to receive the effectiveness of death with Him – freedom from sin.”

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103. “If one’s conscience is willing to confess whatever sins have been committed, including the sin of unbelief, it will be sorrowful in a godly way, earnestly desiring the mercy of God.”

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104. “How dangerous a master human emotion is!”

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

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106. “Mere mental assimilation of these truths cannot withstand temptation, however. The revelation of God is positively essential. The Spirit of God must reveal how we are in Christ and how we are united with Him in one.”

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107. “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.”

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108. “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.”

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109. “At times it seems we require more grace to lose our wealth than to lose our life!”

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110. “All we have-ourselves-to Him, and if that be all, that is enough.”

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111. “If we just had more revelation of what we already have, there would be far less prayers and far more praise.”

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112. “Only those who are spiritual perceive the reality of the spiritual foe and hence engage in battle. Such warfare is not fought with arms of the flesh. Because the conflict is spiritual so must the weapons.”

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113. “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.”

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114. “Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee, That we his evil power may bind, His prisoners to free.”

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115. “True revelation of the fact of the Spirit’s indwelling will revolutionize the life of any Christian.”

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116. “The right attitude is this: that I have my own will, yet I will the will of God.”

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117. “How true it is that without the guidance of the Holy Spirit intellect not only is undependable but also extremely dangerous, because it often confuses the issue of right and wrong.”

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118. “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.”

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119. “We work because we have not seen the work of Christ.”

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120. “Therefore, brethren, pray until God gives us revelation so that “knowing this” in our spirit we may truly confess “that our old man has been crucified with him.””

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121. “Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian’s heart; man cannot.”

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122. “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.”

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123. “Many confuse understanding with believing.”

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124. “We should try our best to pour out all the burdens in our spirit by prayer until all of them have left us.”

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125. “And it is through conflict that God induces the believer to seek and to grasp total triumph in Christ.”

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

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127. “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.”

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

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129. “Every true work is not done to the poor. Every true work is done to Me.”

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130. “God must bring us to a point – I cannot tell you how it will be, but He will do it – where, through a deep and dark experience, our natural power is touched and fundamentally weakened, so that we no longer dare trust ourselves.”

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131. “They are trying to look within, to differentiate, to discriminate, to analyze, and in doing so are bringing themselves into deeper bondage. Now this is a situation which is really dangerous to Christian life, for inward knowledge will never be reached along the barren path of self-analysis.”

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132. “All knowledge is the outgrowth of obedience; everything else is just information.”

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133. “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.”

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134. “Bible-reading and prayer are not wrong, and God forbid that we should suggest that they are. But it is wrong to trust even in them for victory. Our help is in Him who is the object of that reading and prayer. Our trust must be in Christ alone.”

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135. “We must not pay attention just to reading and studying; rather, we should ask if we are open before the Lord. If we do not have an unveiled face, the glory of the Lord will not shine on us. If our heart is not open to God, God cannot give us any light.”

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

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137. “Andrew Murray once said that what the church and individuals have to dread is the inordinate activity of the soul with its power of mind and will. F. B. Meyer declared that had he not known about the dividing of spirit and soul, he could not have imagined what his spiritual life would have been. Many others, such as Otto Stockmayer, Jessie Penn-Lewis, Evan Roberts, Madame Guyon, have given the same testimony.”

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138. “One gains by losing self for others and not by hoarding for oneself.”

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139. “It is highly dangerous to receive the truths of the Bible with human wisdom, for this is a hidden and subtle method which invariably causes a believer to perfect with his flesh the work of the Holy Spirit.”

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140. “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 have resulted are due to men’s coming to work, instead of being sent out to work.”

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141. “We recognize already that regeneration of the spirit is the paramount need of man.”

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

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

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144. “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.”

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145. “The daily life of the Christian can be summed up in one word: receive.”

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

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147. “Most soulish believers assume an attitude of self-righteousness, though often it is scarcely detectable. They hold tenaciously to their minute opinions we ought to lay aside the small differences and pursue the common objective.”

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

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149. “For God to reveal His Son in us is not the result of research or searching; it is entirely a matter of mercy and revelation. It is an inward seeing, an inner knowing.”

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150. “If any person desires to think, he must possess memory, imagination and reasoning power; but the Christian has presently lost these powers, hence is unable to think. He cannot create, deduce or recollect, nor can he compare, judge and apprehend. Therefore he cannot think. And should he attempt to do so he experiences a kind of dazed sensation which stifles any productive thought.”

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