Charles Grandison Finney Quotes

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

Charles Grandison Finney

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• The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.

  

  Edith Stein
  • God
  • Heart
  • Church

• I do not believe in the eternity of the spirit. That contradicts my ideology.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Believe
  • Spirit
  • Eternity

• Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Prayer
  • Self
  • Strength

• The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

  

  Karl Marx
  • English
  • Spirit
  • Revolution

• Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Man
  • Spirit
  • Rights

• Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.

  

  Mary Baker Eddy
  • Experience
  • Prayer

• Most of the great books on prayer are written by 'experts' - monks, missionaries, mystics, saints. I've read scores of them, and mainly they make me feel guilty.

  

  Philip Yancey
  • Great
  • Prayer
  • Guilty

• I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life.

  

  Mary Oliver
  • Life
  • Interesting
  • Prayer

• Since 1775, when the first Continental Congress called for a national day of prayer, there have been such events called for by almost every President. I saw the figures - 34 out of 44 Presidents have called for a national day of prayer. Some of those who didn't have died in office.

  

  James Dobson
  • Prayer

• I think faith is the small mustard seed of opportunities every day. For example, 'Am I going to love this person? Am I going to share my faith with this person? Am I going to pray that little prayer?' It really is a daily thing where you seize those little mustard seed opportunities and then see what God does.

  

  Mark Batterson
  • God
  • Small
  • Faith

• I am constantly thankful. The world is so beautiful, I am thankful. I have endless energy, I am thankful. I am plugged into the source of Universal Supply, I am thankful. I am plugged into the source of Universal Truth, I am thankful. I have this constant feeling of thankfulness, which is a prayer.

  

  Peace Pilgrim
  • World
  • Truth
  • Beautiful

• Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.

  

  Jonathan Edwards
  • God
  • Believe
  • Heart

• Yes, I like that word. "More" is a prayer to God, isn't it? Gratitude and plea, all in one.

  

  Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel
  • God
  • Prayer
  • More

• Do not count the days, do not count the miles. Count only the Germans you have killed. Kill the German - this is your old mother's prayer. Kill the German - this is what your children beseech you to do. Kill the German - this is the cry of your Russian earth. Do not waver. Do not let up. Kill.

  

  Ilya Ehrenburg
  • Up
  • Children
  • Mother

• We should try to learn the nature of [the spirit of revelation]. . . . This is the grand means that the Lord has provided for us, that we may know the light, and not be groveling continually in the dark.

  

  Lorenzo Snow
  • Trying
  • May
  • Nature

• Constitution is not a mere lawyers document, it is a vehicle of Life, and its spirit is always the spirit of Age.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Life
  • Age
  • Spirit

• Every true revival from that day to this has had its earthly origin in prayer.

  

  R. A. Torrey
  • True
  • Prayer
  • Revival

• If we then let the words of Christ abide in us, they will stir us up in prayer.

  

  R. A. Torrey
  • Up
  • Words
  • Prayer

• I confess that there is nothing to teach: no religion, no science, no writings which will lead your mind back to Spirit. Today I speak this way, tomorrow that, but always the Path is beyond words and beyond mind.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Spirit
  • Teach
  • I Confess

• Fasting gives you confidence to know that your spirit can master appetite . . . and helps to protect against later uncontrolled cravings and gnawing habits.

  

  Russell M. Nelson
  • Giving
  • Spirit
  • Helping

• More and more it seems to me that the philosopher, being of necessity a man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, has always found himself, and had to find himself, in contradiction to his today: his enemy was ever the ideal of today. So far all these extraordinary furtherers of men whom one calls philosophers, though they themselves have rarely felt like friends of wisdom but rather like disagreeable fools and dangerous question marks, have found their task, their hard, unwanted, inescapable task, but eventually also the greatness of their task, in being the bad conscience of their time.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Conscience
  • Philosophers
  • Contradiction

• I will be acquitted and vindicated when the truth is told.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Truth

• What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Bad
  • Man
  • Innocence

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

  

  Charles Grandison Finney
  • Prayer
  • Spirit