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Watchman Nee
"I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher. I consecrate myself to God to do His will where I am, be it in school, office, or kitchen, or wherever He may, in His wisdom, send me." --
Source : Watchman Nee (2009). “The Normal Christian Life”, p.83, CLC Publications
Watchman Nee
#School Quotes
#Office Quotes
#Kitchen Quotes
“They don't teach you just how to be in school. There's no class on that. There's no multiple choice test for Why Do I Feel This Way?”
Source : "Heather Matarazzo: ‘Welcome to the Dollhouse’ changed my life". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. March 22, 2011.
“The coming week in The Hague may prove to be one of the most important in the three-and-a-half-billion year history of life on earth.”
“Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere.”
Source : "On Relativism" by Karel Capek, 1925.
“You have to work at relationships. You can’t just walk out on them every time something goes wrong.”
“Cure" is one of the most precious words in the English language. It's a short word. A clean and simple word. But it isn't so easy a thing as it sounds. There are questions like: How will this affect us in ten years? In twenty? What will it do to our children? Our children's children?”
“When people realize you're not the stuffed shirt they think you are it's such a relief and you have people who really like to be around you.”
“Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports.”
“It comes to me every day of my life that a home spirit is being awakened amongst us, that as a nation we are beginning to realize how important it is to have homes of our own, homes that we like, that we have been instrumental in building, that we will want to have belong to our children.”
Source : Gustav Stickley (1912). “More Craftsman Homes”