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

• I work with a lot of different charities, and by that I don't mean merely by giving money, but by really getting involved hands-on. I've always said that one of the reasons why I was put on this Earth was to help people. That's something I've always enjoyed both here in America and if I have the opportunity when I'm traveling out of the country. For example, I like to visit orphanages to spend time with the children. That's very important to me.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• When happy, be kind. When angry, be kind. When hopeful, be kind. When discouraged, be kind. When ever, be kind.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Happy
  • Angry
  • Hopeful

• Karma, memory, and desire are just the software of the soul. It's conditioning that the soul undergoes in order to create experience. And it's a cycle. In most people, the cycle is a conditioned response. They do the same things over and over again.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • People
  • Experience
  • Soul

• Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.

  

  Frederic Bastiat
  • Life
  • Men

• I was a cleaner while at university. The job wasn't bad, but I was amazed by how badly cleaners are treated - how disrespected they are by the people they work for.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • People
  • Work
  • Job

• 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