C. J. Mahaney Quotes

I want to stay in the habit of 'glancing' at my problems and 'gazing' at my Lord.

I should be making plans more for the next world than for this one.

I like fish, and I also like bear's paws. If I cannot have the two together, I will let the fish go, and take the bear's paws. So, I like life, and I also like righteousness. If I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go, and choose righteousness.

Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.

High and eternal things have little weight with the youth.

Living in the light of eternity changes your priorities.

The tricky part of illness is that, as you go through it, your values are constantly changing... You may decide you want to spend your time working as a neurosurgeon, but two months later, you may want to learn to play the saxophone or devote yourself to the church. Death may be a one-time event, but living with terminal illness is a process.

Do one thing every day you don't want to do.

Everybody wants to enjoy heaven after they die, but they don't want to be heavenly-minded while they live.

One of the most important and rewarding ways in which we can serve our fellowmen is by living and sharing the principles of the gospel. We need to help those whom we seek to serve to know for themselves that God not only loves them but he is ever mindful of them and their needs. To teach our neighbors of the divinity of the gospel is a command reiterated by the Lord: 'It becometh every man who hath been warned to warn his neighbor' (D&C 88:81).

You've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.

The closer you live to God, the smaller everything else appears.

I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it.

That really is the best part of being a dad. You remember what's important in life.

Ever since then I have known that if all the values in this world are more or less questionable, the most important thing in life is kindness.

The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most

I want to live out principles that became a part of my life in my 40s, 50s, and 60s. One principle is the universality of freedom.

God didn’t want me to do more for Him. He wanted me to be more with Him.

Jesus does not respond to our worry-filled way of living by saying that we should not be so busy with worldly affairs. He does not try to pull us away from the many events, activities, and people that make up our lives. . . . He asks us to shift the point of gravity, to relocate the center of our attention, to change our priorities. Jesus does not speak about a change of activities, a change in contacts, or even a change of pace. He speaks about a change of heart.

The balance in your life is more important than the balance in your checking account.

If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day.

In the end, life teaches us what is important, and that is family.

We acquire a testimony of the principles of the gospel by obediently trying to live them.

I cannot too greatly emphasize the importance and value of Bible study - more important than ever before in these days of uncertainties, when men and woman are apt to decide questions from the standpoint of expediency rather than the eternal principles laid down by God, Himself.

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