Sit, Walk, Stand Quotes

“We must be brought to a place where, naturally gifted though we may be, we dare not speak except in conscious and continual dependence on Him.”
― Watchman Nee, Sit, Walk, Stand

“The Christian life from start to finish is based upon this principle of utter dependence upon the Lord Jesus.”
― Watchman Nee, Sit, Walk, Stand: The Process of Christian Maturity

“To be useful in God’s hand, a man must be properly adjusted with respect to all three: his position, his life and his warfare. He falls short of God’s requirements if he underestimates the importance of any one of them, for each is a sphere in which God would express “the glory of his grace, which he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved” (1:6).”
― Watchman Nee, Sit, Walk, Stand: The Process of Christian Maturity

“This was God’s principle from the beginning. In the creation God worked from the first to the sixth day and rested on the seventh. We may truthfully say that for those first six days, He was very busy. Then, the task He had set Himself completed, He ceased to work. The seventh day became the sabbath of God; it was God’s rest. But what of Adam? Where did he stand in relation to that rest of God? Adam, we are told, was created on the sixth day. Clearly, then, he had no part in those first six days of work, for he came into being only at their end. God’s seventh day was, in fact, Adam’s first. Whereas God worked six days and then enjoyed His sabbath rest, Adam began his life with the sabbath; for God works before He rests, while man must first enter into God’s rest, and then alone can he work. Moreover, it was because God’s work of creation was truly complete that Adam’s life could begin with rest. And here is the gospel: that God has gone one stage further and has completed also the work of redemption, and that we need do nothing whatever to merit it, but can enter by faith directly into the values of His finished work.”
― Watchman Nee, Sit, Walk, Stand: The Process of Christian Maturity

“But Christianity is a queer business! If at the outset we try to do anything, we get nothing; if we seek to attain something, we miss everything. For Christianity begins not with a big DO, but with a big DONE.”
― Watchman Nee, Sit, Walk, Stand

“The operation of His life in us is in a true sense spontaneous, that is to say, it is without effort of ours. The all-important rule is not to “try,” but to “trust,” not to depend upon our own strength, but upon His. For it is the flow of life which reveals what we truly are “in Christ.” It is from the Fountain of Life that the sweet water issues.”
― Watchman Nee, Sit, Walk, Stand: The Process of Christian Maturity

“Has defeat been your experience? Have you found yourself hoping that one day you will be strong enough to win? Then my prayer for you can go no further than that of the apostle Paul to his Ephesian readers. It is that God may open your eyes anew to see yourself seated with Him who has Himself been made to sit “far above all rule, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name that is named” (1:21). The difficulties around you may not alter; the lion may roar as loudly as ever; but you need no longer hope to overcome. In Christ Jesus you are victor in the field.”
― Watchman Nee, Sit, Walk, Stand: The Process of Christian Maturity

“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.”
― Watchman Nee, Sit, Walk, Stand

“Sitting describes our position with Christ in the heavenlies. Walking is the practical outworking of that heavenly position here on earth.”
― Watchman Nee, Sit, Walk, Stand: The Process of Christian Maturity

“For Christianity begins not with a big do, but with a big done.”
― Watchman Nee, Sit, Walk, Stand: The Process of Christian Maturity

“God never asks us to do anything we can do. He asks us to live a life which we can never live and to do a work which we can never do. Yet, by His grace, we are living it and doing it.”
― Watchman Nee, Sit, Walk, Stand: The Process of Christian Maturity