Charles Grandison Finney Quotes

When sinners are careless and stupid, and sinking into hell unconcerned, it is time the church should bestir themselves. It is as much the duty of the church to awake, as it is for the firemen to awake when a fire breaks out in the night in a great city.

Charles Grandison Finney

• Night
• Church
• Stupid
• Hell
• Break
• Duty
• Awake
• Sinner
• Fireman

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• The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.

  

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• Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.

  

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• As much as we need to approve the Keystone pipeline, we need to think far broader than that.

  

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• When you have Candidate A saying the sky is blue, and Candidate B saying it's a cloudy day, I look outside and I see, well, it's a cloudy day. I should be able to tell my viewers, 'Candidate A is wrong, Candidate B is right,' and not have to say, 'Well, you decide.' Then it would be like I'm an idiot.

  

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• The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

  

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• I don't suppose there is a more daring or more impudent rascal on earth than a good American beggar. It is always his boast that he has begged an ex-president, or the present one, and he claims to have received benefits from a number of well-known millionaires, actors, and prize-fighters.

  

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• In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
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• I've decided to tell my kids things like: 'I love the way each of you tilted back your heads when you laughed.' I will give them specific stuff they can grasp.

  

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• I really love Hitchcock; I think he was a complete genius, to me one of the best directors. Such a sense of how to put things together.

  

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• There's only one remedy for crime - get rid of the psychs! They are causing it!

  

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• In manufacturing, we try to stamp out variance. With people, variance is everything.

  

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• Men who work to make it as computer whizzes or owners of black Porsches... are confused when they're told they are not vulnerable enough. We can't fall in love with men who appear invulnerable and expect vulnerability. Why did he want a black Porsche? Because he never saw an ugly woman get out of one.

  

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• Larry poured himself a coffee. 'I hate when they come in here with computers. They sit forever at their tables, and they don't talk to nobody, it's like having a place full of statues or zombies.'

  

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• One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

  

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• I’m so affected, that even my lungs are affected.

  

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• Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

  

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• Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know if it's a technique, or just being bent that way, being raised by the folks I was raised by.

  

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• A real idea keeps changing and appears in many places.

  

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• The success of 'Take Me To Church,' I never imagined it. I never imagined that it would work on radio, that it would find its way onto the charts, even at home and certainly not in America.

  

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• So many people grew up in the church, and you can have an awesome upbringing, but I made a personal conviction; I made a personal decision when I was very young. I enjoy going to church without my parents. On Sunday mornings, I want to go. Bible studies on Wednesdays... I have a relationship - not just through my parents.

  

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• Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.

  

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  • World
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• Not everybody is going to love what you do, but you have to be yourself, that's what's most important. Bring it as hard as you can.

  

  John Baizley Baroness
  • Important
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• When sinners are careless and stupid, and sinking into hell unconcerned, it is time the church should bestir themselves. It is as much the duty of the church to awake, as it is for the firemen to awake when a fire breaks out in the night in a great city.

  

  Charles Grandison Finney
  • Night
  • Church
  • Stupid