
I must first have the sense of God’s possession of me before I can have the sense of His presence with me.
– Watchman Nee
Related Quotes:
- We think in terms of apostolic journeys. God dares to put His greatest ambassadors in chains. – Watchman Nee
- How many of us dare not use our time or money or talents as we would, because we realise they are the Lord’s, not ours? – Watchman Nee
- Lord, I am willing to break MY heart that I might satisfy THY heart. – Watchman Nee
- The idea of waste only comes into our Christianity when we underestimate the worth of our Lord. – Watchman Nee
- Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. – Clive James
- Christian spirituality combines a sense of the awe and majesty of God with a sense of His intimate presence. – NT Wright
- Let your greatest possession be the ability to let go of any possession, joyfully. – Bryant McGill
- Possession of wealth is not the happiness but expression of gratitude for the possession is the happiness. – Debasish Mridha
- We should say nothing that we would not wish to say in His Presence. We should do nothing that we would not do in His Presence. – Billy Graham
- Every man’s island, Jean Louise, every man’s watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing as a collective conscience. – Harper Lee
- We humans are the gods of this planet. And we also have created Superior Gods than us, to have a sense of security. – Abhijit Naskar
- Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense. – Yann Martel
- Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is color that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense. – Yann Martel
- Then sense. Use your sense. Not all of us are born for greatness, but all of us have sense. Make use of it. Think. Think long and well. – Richard Llewellyn
- Be the watchman of your values to safeguard your character. – Tasneem Haneed
- If you don’t doubt it, be ’bout it. Intuition is soul’s watchman. – TF Hodge
- Nick rubbed his hand across his face as he tried to make sense of her prattle. But that was the thing about Simi. She seldom made sense. – Sherrilyn Kenyon
- Then based on her own recent experience, the Divine Presence had a cruelly perverse sense of humor and His Grand Plan needed drastic revision. – Judith McNaught
- leave him free, and the mere sense of liberty would content him, joined to the knowledge that his presence was dear to those whom he loved best. – Louisa May Alcott
- It is a truth universally acknowledged that a sane employee in possession of his wits must be in want of a good manager. – Charles Stross
- It’s odd to see pictures of your parents before your own birth, before your nagging presence altered their lives forever. – Bill Holm
- God’s presence is not the same as the feeling of God’s presence and He may be doing most for us when we think He is doing least. – CS Lewis
- [Nathan] wasn’t blindly obsessed with a possession. He wasn’t crazy. He was a hero–a father who’d risked his life to rescue his son. – Randy Alcorn
- Nothing in her world aligns to the surreality of her dreams. She can feel his presence, his warmth, his depth of intent pressing against her. – Truth Devour
- Book sense makes sense because someone has gone through it before and able to share it with you. Your job is to listen and discern. – Germany Kent
- Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before, fresh and immaculate. – Alberto Manguel
- And He watched over me before I knew Him and before I learned sense or even distinguished between good and evil. – St Patrick
- The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence – TS Eliot
- The Bible teaches that our homes should be hospitable and that those who come in and out of our homes should sense the presence of Christ. – Billy Graham
- It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. – Jane Austen
- We must remember that possession of physical beauty can easily weaken the moral faculty. – Frank Tallis
- Our multiplication must increase to fill the earth. That right there, is a possession – Sunday Adelaja
- It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man in possession of a warm house and a well-stocked fridge must be in want of a cat. – Heather Hacking
- God love to be with us. We must daily seek His presence. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few. – Terry Pratchett
- For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him. – Emma Donoghue
- If we obey God, we shall be his treasured possession. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- We were chosen by God’s to be His special possession. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of their meaning. – Cormac McCarthy
- A man’s real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. – Alexander Smith
