61 Quotes by C. J. Mahaney

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

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.

A cross centered life is made up of cross centered days.

Modesty is humility expressed in dress.

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

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

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

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

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.