Best 49 quotes of C. J. Mahaney on MyQuotes

All gifts from God are intended to direct our attention to God and create fresh affection for God.

Apart from the cross, condemnation is normal. Without Jesus, we all deserve to be condemned and punished for sin. But here's the good news: 'There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus'.

As we mature personally, as our families mature, and as our churches mature, we need the doctrine of sin more, not less; and we need to keep growing in rightly understanding and applying this doctrine. Be assured that this is no less true if you're a pastor or teacher or ministry worker. There's no pastoral privilege in relation to sin. There's no ministry exemption from the opposition of the flesh. There's only a heightened responsibility to oppose sin and to weaken the flesh, as an example to the flock.

Before we can begin to see the cross as something done FOR us, leading us to faith and worship, we have to see it as something done BY us, leading us to repentance. Only the man or woman who is prepared to own his share in the guilt of the cross may claim his share in its grace.

But the very act of pausing in a busy day to pray is an act of weakening pride in my life, acknowledging that I am a dependent creature. I am not self sufficient.

Effective teaching involves explaining to our children what they're already observing in our lives by example.

Encourage others each and every day-nothing's more important than our words.

Encourage others each and every day-nothing's more important than our words. Did you know that, on average, each of us speaks about twenty-five thousand words daily? My last book didn't have that many words. A lot of language is flowing out of our mouths every day and having an impact on those around us. But how much of that flow is fulfilling God's intended purpose for our speech? How much of it reflects pride, rather than a gospel-motivated humility?

Humility is honestly assessing ourselves in light of God’s holiness and our sinfulness.

If there's anything in life that we should be passionate about, it's the gospel. And I don't mean passionate only about sharing it with others. I mean passionate about thinking about it, dwelling on it, rejoicing in it, allowing it to color the way we look at the world. Only one thing can be of first importance to each of us. And only the gospel ought to be.

If you crossed Matthew Henry's path, you would quickly realize that here was someone taking thankful notice of all God was doing for him, and doing so in an attractively joyful way that was infectious.

Individuals motivated by self-interest, self-indulgence, and a false sense of self-sufficiency pursue selfish ambition for the purpose of self-glorification.

In order for romance to deepen, you must touch the heart and mind of your wife before you touch her body.

It’s not 'those who help themselves' whom God helps; it’s those who humble themselves.

It was humanly impossible for the disciples to free themselves from their selfish pursuit of self-exaltation, just as it's impossible for us to free ourselves from the very same sins.

Modesty is humility expressed in dress.

Never be content with your current grasp of the gospel. The gospel is the life-permeating, world-altering, universe-changing truth. It has more facets than a diamond. It's depths man will never exhaust.

No matter the severity of suffering we experience in this life, it will always be less that what we have deserved for our sins

Only those who are truly aware of their sin can truly cherish grace.

Pride is when sinful human beings aspire to the status and position of God and refuse to acknowledge their dependence upon Him.

Pride takes innumerable forms but has only one end: self-glorification. That’s the motive and ultimate purpose of pride—to rob God of legitimate glory and to pursue self-glorification, contending for supremacy with Him. The proud person seeks to glorify himself and not God, thereby attempting in effect to deprive God of something only He is worthy to receive

Read, but not to remember everything. Read because that 1% that you remember has the potential to change your life.

Reminding ourselves of the gospel is the most important daily habit we can establish.

So make it your aim and lifelong habit, when you see someone who's serving, to be reminded of the sacrifice of the Savior, for apart from His sacrifice there is no serving.

Sunday is the best day of the week because we celebrate the risen Christ of the cross in the local church, the dearest place on earth.

The biblical purpose of every conversation you have, in every personal interaction, is that they person who hears you will receive grace.

The personal desolation Christ is experiencing on the cross is what you and I should be experiencing--but instead, Jesus is bearing it, and bearing it all alone. Why alone? He's alone so that we might never be alone.

The weakest believer and the strongest saint are alike equally justified. Justification admits no degrees. A man is either wholly justified or wholly condemned in the sight of God.

Today, the greatest challenge facing American evangelicals is not persecution from the world, but seduction by the world.

To learn true humility, we need more than a redefinition of greatness; we need even more than Jesus' personal example of humble service. What we need is His death.

Unless you see yourself standing there with the shrieking crowd, full of hostility and hatred for the holy and innocent Lamb of God, you don’t really understand the nature and depth of your sin or the necessity of the cross.

We cannot free ourselves from pride and selfish ambition; a divine rescue is absolutely necessary.

We don't accidentally drift into holiness; rather we mature gradually and purposefully, one choice at a time.

We make time for what we truly value. We build habits and routines around the things that really matter to us. This is an important principle to understand as we seek to build our lives around the gospel. Do you want a cross centered life? A cross centered life is made up of cross centered days.

What joy the gospel gives me! I can approach the throne of God with confidence-not because I've done a good job at my spiritual duties, but because I'm clothed in the righteousness of Jesus Christ.

Your greatest need is not a spouse. Your greatest need is to be delivered from the wrath of God - and that has already been accomplished for you through the death and resurrection of Christ. So why doubt that God will provide a much, much lesser need? Trust His sovereignty, trust His wisdom, trust His love.

All topics should be studied through the lens of the Gospel.

... autêntica humildade -- um coração mais interessado na glória de Deus do que na nossa, e mais aplicado a servir aos outros do que a nós mesmos. Esta é, de fato, a postura da humildade para a qual Deus olha.

Because what's perplexing is not that you and I encounter suffering in this life; what's really perplexing is that He suffered in our place. Why did the innocent One suffer for our sins?

De fato, o ensino eficiente envolve explicar aos nossos filhos aquilo que eles já observam em nossa vida. Nunca devemos separar a instrução bíblica do exemplo pessoal.

Encourage others each and every day–nothing’s more important than our words. Did you know that, on average, each of us speaks about twenty-five thousand words daily? My last book didn’t have that many words. A lot of language is flowing out of our mouths every day and having an impact on those around us. But how much of that flow is fulfilling God’s intended purpose for our speech? How much of it reflects pride, rather than a gospel-motivated humility?

If you are anything like me, you do a lot of listening to yourself everyday.

Only those who are aware of God's wrath are amazed by God's grace.

Os que conhecem a verdadeira alegria em meio ao sofrimento são aqueles que reconhecem que, nesta vida, nosso sofrimento nunca será tão grande ou tão sério quanto nossos pecados.

Ser pai ou mãe é uma preparação para aquele dia, quando seu filho estará diante do tribunal de Cristo e prestará contas.

Students in the school of prayer never graduate from the school of the Gospel.

Very small errors in our understanding of the Gospel can result in very big problems.

We know the inner call to lay down our lives for one another because He laid down His life for us. What a powerful death! The cross ransoms, the cross liberates, the cross transforms!

We never move on from the cross. We only get a more profound understanding of the cross.