A Quote by Watchman Nee

Spiritual advancement is measured by faithful obedience.

Watchman Nee

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Advancement Faithful Measured Obedience Spiritual

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Watchman Nee
Chinese - Author
November 4, 1903 - June 1, 1972

Spiritual strength is connected to faithful obedience to God's commands.

Max Anders

Obedience is not measured by our ability to obey laws and principles, obedience is measured by our response to God’s voice.

Bill Johnson

It is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement.

Haile Selassie

I have always been faithful to you if faithful means the experience against which everything else has been measured.

Anita Shreve

You will not see anyone who is truly striving after his spiritual advancement who is not given to spiritual reading.

Athanasius of Alexandria

It is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement. When this comes to be realized man's journey toward higher and more lasting values will show more marked progress while the evil in him recedes into the background. Knowing that material and spiritual progress are essential to man, we must ceaselessly work for the equal attainment of both. Only then shall we be able to acquire that absolute inner calm so necessary to our well-being.

Haile Selassie

Greatness in the kingdom of God is measured in terms of obedience.

John Stott

The Vedic literatures reveal that prasadam conveys spiritual realization, just as chanting does, but in a less obvious or conspicuous way. You make spiritual advancement just by eating it.

Mukunda Goswami

Adversity is not simply a tool. It is God's most effective tool for the advancement of our spiritual lives. The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth. Once we begin to understand this, and accept it as a spiritual fact of life, adversity becomes easier to bear.

Charles Stanley

Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my superfluous and unnecessary desires, I subdue my proud and wanton will and chastise it with obedience, and with God's help I attain freedom of spirit and with it spiritual joy.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

By obedience a man is guarded against pride. Prayer is given for the sake of obedience. The grace of the Holy Spirit is also given for obedience. This is why obedience is higher than prayer and fasting.

Silouan the Athonite

When all material advancements utilized in spiritual need that is the real advancement of human civilization.

Bhakti Charu Swami

The objective of spiritual advancement is not so much 'works' but the quality of life free from ego-consciousness.

Meher Baba

Obedience to the Lord is not only measured by how much we do for our Savior, but by how we obey Him when nobody is looking.

John Wimber

As patterns of obedience develop, the specific blessings associated with obedience are realized and belief emerges. Desire, hope, and belief are forms of faith, but faith as a principle of power comes from a consistent pattern of obedient behavior and attitudes. Personal righteousness is a choice. Faith is a gift from God, and one possessed of it can receive enormous spiritual power.