Witness Lee

Religion is to do something for God, to worship God, yet without [God]. Now I would add something more to this definition of religion. When we say something is religion, we also mean that you have more than one way to live in your human living. In one of the ways for living, you don't apply the spiritual teachings to your life. You live a life without God. You just live it by yourself.... As long as you make a spiritual thing only a section of your daily living and not your whole daily living, that is a performance. That is religion.

Money is not in the realm of God. Money is outside the kingdom of God; it is in the world of Satan. Therefore, money is unrighteous both in position and existence. Actually, as far as God is concerned, money should not exist. In this universe there should not be such a thing as money. If we love money, we love something that should not exist.

Human religion is always like this: it begins by serving God and it ends by killing people.

Being slow means not acting when there is time to act, whereas being stable means allowing time to do its work.

Holiness is the manner of this life that enjoys the divine nature to the uttermost.

The more spiritual we become, the more normal and human we will be.

All religions lead to hypocrisy. Nowhere is hypocrisy more prevailing than in religion. Religion is a field, a realm, for hypocrisy to prevail.

Patience is not passivity; it is aggressiveness without anxiety.

God is embodied and expressed in Christ (John 1:1, 14; 1 Tim. 3:16; Col. 2:9), and Christ is realized and experienced as the Spirit (John 14:16-17; 1 Cor. 15:45b; 2 Cor. 3:17; Rom. 8:10; Phil. 1:19). The Spirit is the very constituent of the church which is the Body of Christ, His fullness (Eph. 1:22-23; 1 Cor. 12:12). Now the Body of Christ is expressed in all the local churches, for the local churches are the expressions of the universal church (1:11-12). The local churches are the expression of the Body, the Body is the realization of Christ as the life-giving Spirit, and Christ is the embodiment of God.

To be slow is to miss a present opportunity, whereas to be patient is to anticipate a coming opportunity.

Each human being is a totality of the human life.

Efforts at self-vindication are a sign of their selfcondemnation.

The second generation did not pass through as much as the first generation did, but they received the benefit of what the first generation experienced.

Whether a matter is great or small, its importance and weight depend on whose hands it is in.

Religion is much used by the usurper to keep God's chosen people under his oppression.