Charles Grandison Finney famous quotes

04-19-2025

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.
-- Charles Grandison Finney

#Prayer #Offering #Quality
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.
-- Charles Grandison Finney

#Christian #Prayer #Heart
It is the great business of every Christian to save souls.
-- Charles Grandison Finney

#Christian #Soul #Great Business
He that winneth souls is wise (Proverbs 11:30) - Those are the best educated ministers, who win the most souls.
-- Charles Grandison Finney

#Wise #Winning #Soul
A state of mind that sees God in everything is evidence of growth in grace and a thankful heart.
-- Charles Grandison Finney

#Heart #Grace #Thank You God
It is the great business of every Christian to save souls. People complain that they do not know how to take hold of this matter. Why, the reason is plain enough; they have never studied it. They have never taken the proper pains to qualify themselves for the work. 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.
-- Charles Grandison Finney

#Christian #Pain #Taken
Unless the will is free, man has no freedom; and if he has no freedom he is not a moral agent, that is, he is incapable of moral action and also of moral character.
-- Charles Grandison Finney

#Character #Men #Agents
When you come back to God for pardon and salvation, come with all you have to lay all at his feet. Come with your body, to offer it as a living sacrifice upon His altar. Come with your soul and all its powers, and yield them in willing consecration to your God and Saviour. Come, bring them all along-everything, body, soul, intellect, imagination, acquirements-all, without reserve.
-- Charles Grandison Finney

#Sacrifice #Yield #Feet
Effective prayer is prayer that attains what it seeks. It is prayer that moves God, effecting its end.
-- Charles Grandison Finney

#Prayer #Moving #Ends
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.
-- Charles Grandison Finney

#Christian #Men #Voting
The obligation of human beings to support and obey human governments, while they legislate upon the principles of the moral law, is an unalterable as the moral law itself.
-- Charles Grandison Finney

#Government #Law #Support
It is a mournful fact that most men, and indeed all men of worldly character, have so much regard to public opinion that they dare not act according to the dictates of their consciences when acting thus would incur the popular frown.
-- Charles Grandison Finney

#Character #Men #Acting
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?
-- Charles Grandison Finney

#Soul #Compromise #Influence
A revival may be expected when Christians have a spirit of prayer for a revival. That is, when they pray as if their hearts were set upon it. When Christians have the spirit of prayer for a revival. When they go about groaning out their hearts desire. When they have real travail of soul.
-- Charles Grandison Finney

#Christian #Prayer #Real
There can be no revival when Mr. Amen and Mr. Wet-Eyes are not found in the audience.
-- Charles Grandison Finney

#Eye #Godly #Revival
Sin is the most expensive thing in the universe. Nothing else can cost so much.
-- Charles Grandison Finney

#Christian #Cost #Sin
I was like you once, long time ago. I believed in the dignity of man. Decency. Humanity. But I was lucky. I found out the truth early, boy. And what is the truth, Stark? It's all very simple. There's no such thing as the dignity of man. Man is a base, pathetic and vulgar animal.
-- Charles Grandison Finney

#Animal #Boys #Simple
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.
-- Charles Grandison Finney

#Government #Views #Law
No government is lawful or innocent that does not recognize the moral law as the only universal law, and God as the Supreme Lawgiver and Judge, to whom nations in their national capacity, as well as individuals, are amenable.
-- Charles Grandison Finney

#Government #Law #Judging
Unless I had the spirit of prayer, I could do nothing.
-- Charles Grandison Finney

#Prayer #Spirit
Some men will spin out a long prayer telling God who and what he is, or they pray out a whole system of divinity. Some people preach, others exhort the people, till everybody wishes they would stop, and God wishes so, too, most undoubtedly.
-- Charles Grandison Finney

#Prayer #Men #Long
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.
-- Charles Grandison Finney

#Christian #Wicked #Acting

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