208 Quotes by Watchman Nee

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

Only those who sit can stand. Our power for standing, as for walking, lies in our having first been made to sit together with Christ. The Christian’s walk and warfare alike derive their strength from his position there. If he is not sitting before God he cannot hope to stand before the enemy.

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

Spiritual advancement is measured by faithful obedience.

To secure one’s freedom the Christian must experience God’s light which is God’s truth.

Sitting describes our position with Christ in the heavenlies. Walking is the practical outworking of that heavenly position here on earth.

Frequently the enemy entices Christians to harbor an unforgiving spirit – a very common symptom indeed among God’s children. Such bitterness and fault-finding and enmity inflict a severe blow upon spiritual life.

From the evening I was saved, I began to live a new life, for the life of the eternal God had entered into me.

Here is invariably a spiritual fact: Our spirit is released according to the degree of our brokenness.