Quotes from Charles Finney
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.
- Charles Finney
A revival is nothing else than a new beginning of obedience to God.
- Charles Finney
Often, without being at all aware of it, men judge themselves, not by God's rule, but by their own.
- Charles Finney
Why will God's creatures sin against his throne? Can there be such madness in beings gifted with reason's light?
- Charles Finney
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 Finney
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 Finney
It is the great business of every Christian to save souls.
- Charles Finney
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 Finney
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 Finney
Effective prayer is prayer that attains what it seeks. It is prayer that moves God, effecting its end.
- Charles Finney
Unless I had the spirit of prayer I could do nothing.
- Charles Finney
Repentance is a change of willing, of feeling and of living, in respect to God.
- Charles Finney