Carolyn Mahaney Quotes

United States, Author
June 1, 1955

Carolyn Mahaney is a wife, mother, and homemaker. Having spent over thirty years as a pastor's wife, Carolyn has spoken to women in many churches and conferences. She is the author of Feminine Appeal, Girl Talk, Shopping for Time and True Beauty. She blogs with her daughters at www.girltalkhome.com, a blog focused on biblical womanhood. Carolyn and her husband, C. J., are the parents of three married daughters and one son, and the happy grandparents to twelve grandchildren.

If we want to get to the source of what we feel, we need to figure out what we believe and value.

Carolyn Mahaney
- Believe
- Value
- Feel
The challenge of ministry in our home is that we do not always feel very “spiritual” when we wash our dishes. It hardly feels significant to scrub our toilet. and we can feel that we are truly ministering when the Lord uses us to communicate a word of wisdom to someone, or He provides an opportunity to share the gospel with our neighbor. That seems like real ministry. And that is real ministry to be sure! But no more so than when we are wiping runny noses or cleaning the bathroom. That is because we have a very narrow view of true spirituality... The Lord wants to help us see the significance of ministry at home. He also wants to expand our vision for the multiple opportunities that we have for ministry in the home. Let’s ask the LORD to help us gain a biblical perspective of our ministry at home.

Carolyn Mahaney
- Share
- Seems
- Gospel

Our hope is in Christ, who started this good work in the first place. He is at work, right now, creating godly emotions in our hearts, and he won’t stop until our lives are bursting with beautiful, passionate, true feelings.

Carolyn Mahaney
- Christ
- Emotions
- Hearts
God created our emotions to work in harmony with our other two most fundamental faculties: our mind and our will.

Carolyn Mahaney
- Work
- God
- Mind
In fact, you get the feeling nowadays that doing anything outside of the home is more honorable than working in the home. Dorothy Patterson characterizes the current mind-set in this way: Much of the world would agree that being a housekeeper is acceptable as long as you are not caring for your own home; treating men with attentive devotion would also be right as long as the man is the boss in the office and not your husband; caring for children would even be deemed heroic service for which presidential awards could be given as long as the children are someone else’s and not your own.

Carolyn Mahaney
- Home
- Feeling
- Doing