C. J. Mahaney Quotes

We are all on a journey of faith, and we have to polish that faith.

I'm just like you - I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it. And I'm trying to be a Christian. I'm always amazed when people walk up to me and say, 'I'm a Christian.' I always think, 'Already? You've already got it?' I'm working at it. And at my age, I'll still be working at it at 96.

Christians already? It seems to me that it takes a lifetime of work.

We never move on FROM the Gospel, we move on IN the Gospel

Study to know Him more and more, for the more you know, the more you will love Him.

Part of the faith walk is to understand your weaknesses and is to constantly try to embetter yourself and get closer to the Lord.

A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.

Though we must never think to learn above our Bible, as long as we are here in this world, yet we must still be getting forward in it.

I don't want to hit a point where I feel there is nothing to improve upon - there always is.

To make it really clear and simple, let's call this movement across history we see in passages like the ones we just looked at from Exodus and Deuteronomy clicks. What we see is God meeting people at the click they're at, and then drawing them forward.When they're at F, God calls them to G.When we're at L, God calls us to M.And if we're way back there at A, God meets us way back there at A and does what God always does: invites us forward to B.

Christian living does not mean to be good but to become good; not to be well, but to get well; not being but becoming; nor rest but training. We are not yet, but we shall be. It has not yet happened, but it is the way. Not everything shines and sparkles as yet, but everything is getting better.

When you put a seed in the ground, it doesn't stop growing after eight hours. It keeps going every minute that it's in the earth. We, too, need to keep growing every moment of every day that we are on this earth.

We must not think, "Well, we have all the truth, we understand the main pillars of our faith, and we may rest on this knowledge." The truth is an advancing truth, and we must walk in the increasing light.

There is no such way to attain to greater measures of grace, as for a man to live up to that little grace he has.

Everything that happens to me can help me along in my Christian life.

We're not just building a Temple here, the Lord is building us.

We can tell much by what we have already willing discarded along the pathway of discipleship. It is the only pathway where littering is permissible, even encouraged. In the early stages, the debris left behind includes the grosser sins of commission. Later debris differs; things begin to be discarded which have caused the misuse or underuse of our time and talent.

I just want to grow spiritually with the Lord.

Education must be a lifelong pursuit. The person who doesn't read is not better off than the person who can't.

Immerse yourself in the curriculum of grace.

Every day we are offered new means for learning and growing in love.

A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.

I now opened my Bible and began to study, and faith has been growing ever since.

Success is the continuing achievement of becoming the person God wants you to be and accomplishing the goals God has helped you set.

The Lord doesn't put us through this test just to give us a test: He does it because the process will change us.