Watchman Nee Quotes

To bear the cross means that you refrain from doing what you have the power to do. You are qualified to fulfill your desire, yet you refrain from doing so. A person like this is the strongest person. 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.

Watchman Nee

• Desire
• Persons
• Crosses
• Strongest
• Qualified
• Refrain

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• Getting four people awake, fed, dressed, and out the door on time is a challenge. Add to that making a school lunch, and you can tilt over the edge. Unless you are well prepared and have a simple method to follow.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • People
  • Time
  • School

• I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Great
  • Building
  • Gossip

• History is a race between education and catastrophe.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • History
  • Education
  • Race

• I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Love
  • She
  • Friend

• If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • People
  • Power
  • Reality

• From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Day
  • Laughter
  • Applause

• Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.

  

  Livy
  • Nature

• Freedom was a word that everyone mentioned but none of us knew. There wasn't much left for anyone to die for, except the right to remain peculiar.

  

  Colum McCann
  • Freedom
  • Die

• When you start hanging out with Jennifer Lopez and Bill Clinton, you can't expect to remain an everyday person.

  

  Alfonso Soriano
  • Everyday

• The media simply does not understand Econ 101.

  

  Mark Skousen

• I aspire to write what are called 'familiar essays.' They begin in the personal and end in the universal. It's not for me to say if I have been successful at it. But that is the hope.

  

  David Rakoff
  • Hope

• Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • Life

• What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca

• I'm smart with my money, I invest conservatively. I don't mind paying top-dollar, but I don't want to get ripped off.

  

  Kim Cattrall
  • Mind
  • Money
  • Smart

• I don't drink any soda. None at all. Just water with lemon. If I need something different: iced tea. I don't have anything like protein shakes.

  

  Jillian Rose Reed
  • Different
  • Water
  • Tea

• If thou wouldst help others deal with them as though they were what they should be

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Help

• When I consider how my light is spent,Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide,And that one talent which is death to hideLodged with me useless.

  

  John Milton
  • World
  • Death
  • Light

• I prize thy gentle heart, Free from ambition, falsehood, or art, And thy good mind, Daily refined, By pure desire To fan the heaven-seeking fire.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Know that the same spark of life that is within you, is within all of our animal friends, the desire to live is the same within all of us...

  

  Rai Aren
  • Life
  • Live
  • Desire

• When they were casting, Denis was very specific that he didn't want any actors from L.A. and I was living in L.A. at the time.

  

  Andrea Roth
  • Time
  • Living
  • Specific

• For the spiritual efficacy of the Sacrament doth not depend upon the nature of the thing received, supposing we received what our Lord appointed, and receive it with a right preparation and disposition of mind, but upon the supernatural blessing that goes along with it, and makes it effectual to those spiritual ends for which it was appointed.

  

  John Tillotson
  • Mind
  • Spiritual
  • Lord

• Apparently people don't like the truth, but I do like it; I like it because it upsets a lot of people. If you show them enough times that their arguments are bullshit, then maybe just once, one of them will say, 'Oh! Wait a minute - I was wrong.' I live for that happening. Rare, I assure you.

  

  Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Motörhead
  • Truth
  • Wrong
  • Arguments

• To bear the cross means that you refrain from doing what you have the power to do. You are qualified to fulfill your desire, yet you refrain from doing so. A person like this is the strongest person. 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.

  

  Watchman Nee
  • Desire
  • Persons
  • Crosses