Watchman Nee was a great Chinese Christian leader in the first half of the 20th Century. He preached across China and started house churches. His sermons were written down by his followers and published as books.

Watchman Nee's books had a great influence on me. As a young Christian, I read everything I could find by him. When the communists took over China, they put Watchman Nee in prison for about 20 years where he finally died for his faith in Jesus Christ in a Chinese prison.

Some of his books are: "The Spiritual Man", "Sit, Walk, Stand", "What Shall This Man Do?", "The Normal Christian Life", and "Spiritual Authority".

"One encounters no difficulty in accepting that truth which is agreeable; but it is not easy at all to take in a truth which blasts one's ego." --Watchman Nee

"Lies bind but truth unshackles." --Watchman Nee

"To descend a mountain is always easier than to ascend it; in like manner, to become passive is easy but to regain freedom is painstaking." --Watchman Nee

"Christianity always involves a personal knowledge of God through His Spirit, and not merely the knowing of His will through the medium of a man or a book." --Watchman Nee

"Perhaps our greatest service to the Lord would be to make way for Him to do the unprecedented with us, and so make possible a new enrichment of life for the entire Body of Christ." --Watchman Nee