Charles Grandison Finney Quotes About Church

Quotes about: Church

• If the presence of God is in the church, the church will draw the world in. If the presence of God is not in the church, the world will draw the church out.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Church, World, Draws

• The Church must take right ground in regard to politics... Politics are a part of a religion in such a country as this, and Christians must do their duty to the country as part of their duty to God... God will bless or curse this nation, according to the course Christians take in politics.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Christian, Country, Religious

• Evermore the Law must prepare the way for the gospel. To overlook this in instructing souls is almost certain to result in false hope, the introduction of a false standard of Christian experience, and to fill the Church with false converts... Time will make this plain.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Christian, Law, Soul

• When the church finds its members falling into gross and scandalous sins, then it is time for the church to awake and cry to God for a Revival of Religion.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Fall, Church, Cry

  Charles Grandison Finney (1835). “Lectures on Revivals of Religion”, p.22

• The end for which Christ lives, and for which He has left His church in the world, is the salvation of sinners.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Church, World, Christ

  Charles Grandison Finney (1837). “Lectures to Professing Christians”, p.23

• 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

  Stupid, Night, Fire

  Charles Grandison Finney (1835). “Lectures on Revivals of Religion”, p.22

• How often God visited the Jewish Church with judgments because they would not repent and be revived at the call of His prophets! How often have we seen Churches, and even whole denominations, cursed with a curse, because they would not wake up and seek the Lord.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Church, Wake Up, Judgment

  Charles Grandison Finney (1835). “Lectures on Revivals of Religion”, p.24

• When there is a spirit of controversy in the church or in the land, a revival is needful. The spirit of religion is not the spirit of controversy. There can be no prosperity in religion, where the spirit of controversy prevails.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Land, Church, Spirit

  Charles Grandison Finney (1835). “Lectures on Revivals of Religion”, p.22

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