Quotes from Watchman Nee

Good is not always God's will, but God's will is always good.

Every true spiritual experience means that we have discovered a certain fact in Christ and have entered into that. Anything that is not from Him in this way is an experience that is going to evaporate very soon.

Whatever the mind sets itself on is what the man walks after.

since God's Word is living, he who listens and does not have a living response is he who has not actually heard the Word of God.

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

Any action which lacks in obedience is a fall, and any act of disobedience is rebellion.

How much in our prayers is self completely forgotten and the will of the Lord is alone the thing that is sought?

The child of God ought to confess his weakness that he does not know how to pray, and petition the Holy Spirit to teach him.

How dangerous a master human emotion is!

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

It is a great thing when I discover I am no longer my own but His. If the ten shillings in my pocket belong to me, then I have full authority over them. But if they belong to another who has committed them to me in trust, then I cannot buy what I please with them, and I dare not lose them. Real Christian life begins with knowing this.

God in heaven will only bind and loose what His children