Charles Grandison Finney Quotes

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 Grandison Finney

• Giving
• Desire
• Sin
• Humility
• Conviction
• Obedience
• Intense
• Revival

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• It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Up
  • Now
  • Tough

• It's just like heirloom tomatoes; this is heirloom music. We used to have all kinds of diversity in our poultry, in our vegetables, in our fruits, and slowly but surely the monoculture beast comes in. I'm saying that's not a good idea. And if it means that I gotta do it on my own, then I do it on my own.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Good
  • Music
  • Diversity

• I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Think
  • Dark
  • Reflection

• So somebody told me that if I wasn't a coffee drinker yet, by the end of college I'd have to be, because a math major is so tough I would have to stay up very late. I was going to need coffee to do that. Well, merely because they said that, I never drank coffee in college, never got addicted to it, never needed it.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Up
  • College
  • End

• As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • Great
  • Serious
  • Child

• If you want to be happy, make others happy!

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Happy
  • Want
  • Be Happy

• I am all in favor of growing the American economy and engaging in trade with the world, but not at the expense of American workers. The North American Free Trade Agreement is a perfect example of this. Ask the textile workers of North Carolina how NAFTA worked out for them - if you can find any.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • American
  • Perfect
  • Economy

• I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Up
  • Idea
  • Write

• I feel like there should be a statute of limitations on scoring political points on the tragedy that was Hurricane Katrina.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Political
  • Feel
  • Tragedy

• Stephen Colbert used to be my friend. I even signed the poor baby's cast when he hurt his hand.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Friend
  • Hand
  • Hurt

• We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Good
  • Find
  • Where

• I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Character
  • Care

• Well, it's very dangerous to project, but it's clear that the existing technology has some more years to go.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Technology
  • Years
  • Project

• Anything that we can destroy, but are unable to make is, in a sense, sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not explain anything.

  

  E. F. Schumacher

• Don't let anybody tell you that it's corporations and businesses that create jobs.

  

  Hillary Clinton

• Outside is pure energy and colorless substance. All of the rest happens through the mechanism of our senses. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings.

  

  Albert Hofmann
  • World
  • Energy
  • Small

• Speaking as a black person, welfare is the worst thing that's ever happened to us.

  

  Charles Evers
  • Black

• I feel like when there's more on the line and there's more risks, that means there's more reward.

  

  Alex Morgan

• I think it's phenomenal and expected that Paralympians will take on able bodied people more and more. In dressage, it happens all the time. But there are very few adaptions, and they are never allowed to give you an advantage.

  

  Lee Pearson
  • People
  • Time

• It's intense in every sport. No matter what, USC vs. UCLA is crazy. Especially when it comes down to football and basketball, it's just nuts.

  

  Akeem Ayers
  • Football
  • Sport
  • Intense

• I think people respond to truth. 'Straight Outta Compton' made $60 million over the weekend, right? That's not just a black audience. 'Empire' grew every single week. That's not just a black audience. Black culture is American culture, you know what I mean? They're becoming more and more one in the same.

  

  Jerrod Carmichael
  • People
  • Truth
  • American

• Prostitute yourself. As far as I'm concerned, that's even braver than waiting for the public to catch on.

  

  Gene Klein Kiss
  • Waiting

• Exponential Backoff was a huge part of the successful functioning of the ALOHAnet beginning in 1971, and in the 1980s it was baked into TCP, becoming a critical part of the Internet. All these decades later, it still is. As one influential paper puts it, “For a transport endpoint embedded in a network of unknown topology and with an unknown, unknowable and constantly changing population of competing conversations, only one scheme has any hope of working—exponential backoff.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Internet
  • Exponential Backoff
  • ALOHAnet

• 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 Grandison Finney
  • Giving
  • Desire
  • Sin