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Charles Grandison Finney

Charles Grandison Finney (August 29, 1792 – August 16, 1875) was an American Presbyterian minister and leader in the Second Great Awakening in the United States. He has been called The Father of Modern Revivalism. Finney was best known as an innovative revivalist during the period 1825–1835 in upstate New York and Manhattan, an opponent of Old School Presbyterian theology, an advocate of Christian perfectionism, and a religious writer.

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The reason why wicked men and devils hate God is, because they see Him in relation to themselves. Their hearts rise up in rebellion, because they see Him opposed to their selfishness.

Devils, Hate, Heart, Men, Rebellion, Selfishness

There is a fear of the Lord which is the beginning of wisdom, which is founded in love. There is also a slavish fear, which is a mere dread of evil, and is purely selfish.

Evil, Lord, Purely, Selfish

Unless I had the spirit of prayer, I could do nothing.

Nothing, Prayer, Spirit, Unless

Revival is a renewed conviction of sin and repentance, followed by an intense desire to live in obedience to God. It is giving up one's will to God in deep humility.

Conviction, Desire, Giving Up, God, Humility, Live

Every moment of your lives you are exerting a tremendous influence, that will tell on the immortal interests of souls around you. Are you asleep, while your conduct is exerting such an influence?

Compromise, Influence, Interests, Lives, Soul, Tell

Prevailing prayer is that which secures an answer. Saying prayers is not offering prevailing prayer. The prevalence of prayer does not depend so much on quantity as on quality.

Offering, Prayer, Prayers, Prevalence, Quality

How often God visited the Jewish Church with judgments because they would not repent and be revived at the call of His prophets! How often have we seen Churches, and even whole denominations, cursed with a curse, because they would not wake up and seek the Lord.

Church, Jewish, Judgment, Seek, Wake, Wake Up

If you do not make it a matter of study, how you may successfully act in building up the kingdom of Christ, you are acting a very wicked and absurd part as a Christian.

Building Up, Christian, Matter, Part, Study, Wicked

When there is a spirit of controversy in the church or in the land, a revival is needful. The spirit of religion is not the spirit of controversy. There can be no prosperity in religion, where the spirit of controversy prevails.

Church, Land, Prevails, Spirit

There can be no higher enjoyment found in this world that is found in pulling souls out of the fire and bringing them to Christ.

Fire, Soul, Souls, World

The time has come that Christians must vote for honest men and take consistent ground in politics or the Lord will curse them. . . . Christians have been exceedingly guilty in this matter. But the time has come when they must act differently. . . . Christians seem to act as if they thought God did not see what they do in politics. But I tell you He does see it - and He will bless or curse this nation according to the course they Christians take in politics.

Christian, Consistent, Matter, Men, Tell, Voting

A revival of religion presupposes a declension.

Declension, Presupposes, Religion, Revival

The end for which Christ lives, and for which He has left His church in the world, is the salvation of sinners.

Christ, Church, Lives, Salvation, World

Effective prayer is prayer that attains what it seeks. It is prayer that moves God, effecting its end.

Effective, Ends, Moves, Moving, Prayer

You hear the word, and believe it in theory, while you deny it in practice. I say to you, that 'you deceive yourselves'.

Believe, Deceiving, Deny, Practice, Theory

When the church finds its members falling into gross and scandalous sins, then it is time for the church to awake and cry to God for a Revival of Religion.

Church, Cry, Fall, Finds, God

The moral law of God is the only law of individuals and of nations, and nothing can be rightful government but such as is established and administered with a view to its support.

Administered, Government, Law, Moral, Nations, Views

Ministers often preach about the Gospel instead of preaching the Gospel. They often preach about sinners instead of preaching to them.

Gospel, Ministers, Preach, Preaching, Preaching The Gospel

Nothing tends more to cement the hearts of Christians than praying together. Never do they love one another so well as when they witness the outpouring of each other's hearts in prayer.

Christian, Heart, Nothing, Outpouring, Prayer, Praying

If the presence of God is in the church, the church will draw the world in. If the presence of God is not in the church, the world will draw the church out.

Church, Draws, God, Presence, World

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