Charles Grandison Finney Quotes

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

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• Soul
• Desire
• Christian
• Prayer
• Spirit
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• Revival

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• You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • People
  • Time
  • Book

• My favorite prayer is Footprints in the Sand. You know that prayer? I know the times that he carried me, you know? I kind of wore him out.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Me
  • Prayer
  • Sand

• French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Happy
  • Complaining

• I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Good
  • Never
  • Advice

• The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Me
  • Issues
  • Journalism

• If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Education
  • Peace
  • Fight

• People want a grounded government. They want a government that's going to be responsible to them.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • People
  • Want
  • Government

• Online shopping makes everything so much easier - it's a bad habit of mine.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Bad
  • Habit
  • Shopping

• Machiavelli says that if as a ruler you accept that your every action must pass moral scrutiny, you will without fail be defeated by an opponent who submits to no such moral test. To hold on to power, you have not only to master the crafts of deception and treachery but to be prepared to use them where necessary.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Power
  • Action
  • Moral

• So this is my effort to bring back the hope that we must have if we are to change direction. . . . I think to be fully human, we need to have meaning in our lives, and that's what I am trying to help these young people to find.

  

  Jane Goodall
  • People
  • Trying
  • Help

• In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul is indestructible.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • Soul
  • Culture
  • Energy

• I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve; I write about them.

  

  Brian McKnight

• When I left school I was full of angst, like any teenager, and I channeled it all into comedy.

  

  Matt Lucas
  • School
  • Comedy
  • Teenager

• The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Good
  • Adversity

• Having an infant is stressful, and I know I won't get a lot of sleep initially, but it will be worth it.

  

  Kristin Cavallari
  • Sleep

• There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art.

  

  Jerome Bruner
  • Work
  • Real
  • Art

• I really don't pay attention to the outside world when I'm incarcerated, because being in prison is like being in a different world. So I don't pay attention to what's going on outside of jail, because it's all beyond my control.

  

  Kevin Gates
  • World
  • Different
  • Control

• I have a wide range of influences - I mean, first of all, I am a big, big fan of old soul music. Then, there's people like Donny Hathaway, Elton John... a diverse array of music.

  

  Brandon Victor Dixon
  • People
  • Music
  • Soul

• The nature of a protective immune response to HIV is still unclear. Because in a very, very unique manner, unlike virtually any other microbe with which we're familiar, the HIV virus has evolved in a way that the immune system finds it very difficult, if not impossible, to deal with the virus.

  

  Anthony Fauci
  • Nature
  • Unique

• I just cannot declare the independency of Taiwan. Even if Lee Teng-hui was the president now, he could also not do it! (During Sanlih News Channel interview, 2005)

  

  Chen Shui-bian

• The work I'm doing on 'Watchmen' is mind bending and physically just hard.

  

  Jeffrey Dean Morgan
  • Work
  • Mind

• The fundamental assumption that the United States retains the right and obligation to intervene in the Third World in any way it ultimately deems necessary, including military, remains an article of faith among the people who guide both political parties.

  

  Gabriel Kolko
  • People
  • World
  • Political

• When I hear a man applauded by the mob I always feel a pang of pity for him. All he has to do to be hissed is to live long enough.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Long
  • Live

• 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
  • Real
  • Heart
  • Soul