Quotes from C.J. Mahaney

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Legalism is seeking to achieve forgiveness from GOD and acceptance by GOD through my obedience to GOD

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

The cross was the centerpiece of Paul's theology. It wasn't merely one of Paul's messages; it was the message. He taught about other things as well, but whatever he taught was always derived from, and related to, the foundational reality that Jesus Christ died so that sinners would be reconciled to God and forgiven by God.

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

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.

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.

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

Its important to understand that a legalist isn't just someone with higher standards or more rules than you. A lot of us wrongly stereotype a legalistic person as one who doesn't go to the movies, or who thinks that any music with a beat is evil. Legalism is much more subtle and serious than that. Here's a simple definition that I use: Legalism is seeking to achieve forgiveness from God and acceptance by God through obedience to God.

purpose for every conversation you have, in every personal interaction, is that the person who hears you will receive grace. We

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