Top 50 C.J. Mahaney Quotes
#1. I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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#2. Today, the greatest challenge facing American evangelicals is not persecution from the world, but seduction by the world.
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#3. Over the years, I have studied church history as well as the contemporary church, and I noticed how rare it is for a God-glorifying transition of leadership to take place in a local church.
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#4. In order for romance to deepen, you must touch the heart and mind of your wife before you touch her body.
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#5. 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.
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#6. The biblical purpose of every conversation you have, in every personal interaction, is that they person who hears you will receive grace.
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#7. Legalism is seeking to achieve forgiveness from GOD and acceptance by GOD through my obedience to GOD
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#8. Read, but not to remember everything. Read because that 1% that you remember has the potential to change your life.
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#9. A love for the world begins in the soul. It's subtle, not always immediately obvious to others, and often undetected by the people who are slowly succumbing to its lies.
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#10. Humility is honestly assessing ourselves in light of God's holiness and our sinfulness.
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#11. 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.
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#12. 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.
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#13. Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.
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#14. Pride is when sinful human beings aspire to the status and position of God and refuse to acknowledge their dependence upon Him.
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#15. We never move on from the cross. We only get a more profound understanding of the cross.
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#16. Never be content with your current grasp of the gospel.
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#17. Effective teaching involves explaining to our children what they're already observing in our lives by example.
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#19. A cross centered life is made up of Christ centered days.
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#20. 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.
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#21. Pastoral ministry is a sacrificial call with unique challenges. We are called to take the Gospel to those with hard hearts and blind eyes.
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#22. Only those who are truly aware of their sin can truly cherish grace.
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#23. Only those who are aware of God's wrath are amazed by God's grace.
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#24. We cannot free ourselves from pride and selfish ambition; a divine rescue is absolutely necessary.
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#25. The presence of any humility in my life is purely and completely an evidence of God's grace. From my perspective, I am not a humble man. I am a proud man pursuing humility by the grace of God.
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#27. 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!
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#28. 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.
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#29. If you are anything like me, you do a lot of listening to yourself everyday.
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#30. Reminding ourselves of the gospel is the most important daily habit we can establish.
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#31. Endurance in ministry is rooted in the eternal perspective. The absence of an eternal perspective makes you vulnerable to losing heart.
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#32. 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.
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#33. 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?
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#34. 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.
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#35. We may assume God gave us music just to make us happy, not holy; he actually gave us music to make us happy and holy.
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#36. All topics should be studied through the lens of the Gospel.
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#37. No matter the severity of suffering we experience in this life, it will always be less that what we have deserved for our sins
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#38. It's not 'those who help themselves' whom God helps; it's those who humble themselves.
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#39. It is true that I have been studying both humility and pride for many years for the purpose of weakening pride in my own life and cultivating humility by the grace of God.
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#40. Very small errors in our understanding of the Gospel can result in very big problems.
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#41. Individuals motivated by self-interest, self-indulgence, and a false sense of self-sufficiency pursue selfish ambition for the purpose of self-glorification.
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#42. 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.
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#43. To grow in your passion for what Jesus has done, increase your understanding of what He has done.
Never be content with your grasp of the gospel. The gospel is life-permeating, world-altering, universe-changing truth. It has more facets than any diamond. Its depths man will never exhaust.
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#44. All gifts from God are intended to direct our attention to God and create fresh affection for God.
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#45. Students in the school of prayer never graduate from the school of the Gospel.
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#46. We don't accidentally drift into holiness; rather we mature gradually and purposefully, one choice at a time.
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#47. Only those who are humble can consistently identify evidences of grace in others who need adjustment. It's something the proud and the self-righteous are incapable of.
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#48. 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.
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#49. 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.
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#50. 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.
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