Top 35 Witness Lee Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Only when we live, walk, behave, and have our being altogether in our spirit, not in our natural man, are we in the kingdom of God and, in reality, are the kingdom of God.”

— Witness Lee

2. “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. This self-denial is the unique way to usher in God’s kingdom and to realize the kingdom life.”

— Witness Lee

3. “The Lord’s appearing, His coming back, is a warning, an encouragement, and an incentive to us; we should love His appearing and look forward to it with earnest expectation and joy.”

— Witness Lee

4. “Do not simply know God according to what He does, but know Him according to what He is. Whether or not God does something for us means nothing.”

— Witness Lee

5. “To exist is one thing, and to fulfill God’s purpose is another.”

— Witness Lee

6. “Whenever you feel that you are weak, you must call for God’s faithfulness, saying, “O God, You are faithful. I am weak, but You must make me strong according to Your Word.” We are all living under the covenant with God’s faithfulness as the sure sign that the flood will not come. This is the church life.”

— Witness Lee

7. “Anything that exceeds our need becomes worldly, “Egyptian,” something of Pharaoh, and it frustrates us from the economy of God’s purpose... Our living and our existence depend on the provision from the heavenly source, not on the supply from the world.”

— Witness Lee

8. “God can say to His believers, ‘I am divine and human,’ and His believers can reply, ‘Praise You, Lord. You are divine and human, and we are human and divine.’”

— Witness Lee

9. “The entire Godhead, the Triune God, became flesh.”

— Witness Lee

10. “According to my experience, I can testify that both riches and poverty pass away, but God abides. Whether we are rich or poor, God is.”

— Witness Lee

11. “Since the church life is the proper life, it brings in God’s blessing. Peace, joy, love, sympathy, kindness, normal living – all are signs of such a blessing of life which comes by the experience of Christ through the cross.”

— Witness Lee

12. “Col. 1:12-13 Giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you for a share of the allotted portion of the saints in the light; who delivered us out of the authority of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of His love.”

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13. “Lord, I contact You in Your way. I don’t contact You by my thought, concept, or knowledge. Lord, You are my way.”

— Witness Lee

14. “The tree of life is the center of the universe. According to the purpose of God, the earth is the center of the universe, the garden of Eden is the center of the earth, and the tree of life is the center of the garden of Eden. We must realize that the whole universe is centered on this tree of life: nothing is more central and crucial to both God and man than this tree. It is very meaningful to see man in the garden standing before the tree of life.”

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15. “Our walk is for the fulfillment of God’s purpose, our living is for the satisfaction of Christ, and our fighting is for the defeat of God’s enemy.”

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16. “What is the church? The church is a part of Christ; it is nothing less than Christ Himself. The church is the element of Christ in the believers. When this element in so many believers is added together, it equals the church. The church is not a composition of Americans, Mexicans, Japanese, and Chinese. The church is the totality of the Christ in all His believers.”

— Witness Lee

17. “This is the need of the church today. The church is not in great need of miracles, gifts, teachings, or knowledge. Today the church needs the ministry of Christ.”

— Witness Lee

18. “We do not need religion, and we do not need regulations and rituals. We need Christ to be our spiritual food.”

— Witness Lee

19. “Whenever we participate in and enjoy God’s provision, we have a vision. We see God and He sees us. Because we are in His provision and have the vision, everything is clear, nothing is opaque, and there is no separation between us and Him.”

— Witness Lee

20. “The significance of suffering... is this, that the devastation it brings to the old creation provides an opportunity for the God of resurrection to impart Himself into His creatures so that they emerge from the death process with a divine element in their constitution.”

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21. “John 7:37-39 Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes into Me, as the Scripture said, out of his innermost being shall flow rivers of living water. But this He said concerning the Spirit, whom those who believed into Him were about to receive; for the Spirit was not yet, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.”

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22. “However, if you live the church life, the very Christ whom you offer to God will heal you. He is better than any psychiatrist. Do not go to a psychiatrist – come to Christ and offer Him to God. Then you will be healthy, sober, and emotionally balanced.”

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23. “If we study Ephesians with a spirit of revelation, we will realize that the aim of God’s plan is to have an expression of Himself in Christ the Son by the Spirit through a Body composed and built up with many regenerated and transformed people by the mingling of Himself with humanity.”

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24. “To merely search the Scriptures is to come to the tree of knowledge; to contact the Lord through the Word is to come to the tree of life.”

— Witness Lee

25. “To love the world is to feed on the dead things condemned and judged by God.”

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26. “After having had so many dealings under God’s hand, Jacob was undoubtedly tired of human life. He was weary of supplanting, cheating, struggling, and fighting.”

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27. “However, there is no retirement in the spiritual life, and God intervened to upset what appeared to be Jacob’s retirement.”

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28. “Knowledge or religion means to be good and to do good, to worship God or to work for God without having the living presence of God.”

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29. “God’s chosen and redeemed people need to receive the divine revelation concerning God Himself and His economy for their training and building up as His testimony...”

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30. “God did not appear to Abraham without speaking to him. When He came to Abraham, He called him. God spoke to Abraham. Calling means speaking. It is not a small thing to hear God’s speaking.”

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31. “You can never forget His appearing and His speaking to you.”

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32. “The purpose of God’s calling... is not to give His people a little enjoyment of the animal life and the vegetable life in Egypt; it is to bring them into a spacious land flowing with milk and honey.”

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33. “As long as he can keep us from God’s way and frustrate us in fulfilling God’s purpose, Satan will even motivate us to do things for God. This was how he worked in Cain.”

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34. “The word economy is not used in the Old Testament, but it is found in the New Testament, especially in the writings of Paul...”

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35. “The first two chapters appear to be a record of creation, but this is superficial. The underlying thought is focused on life. These two chapters are a record of life. They are too simple and too brief to be an adequate account of creation. Genesis 1 and 2 were not intended by God to be a record of creation, but a revelation of life.”

— Witness Lee