Voices and influences
Charles G. Finney
An American revival preacher, converted at Adams, New York, in 1821, who wrote the Lectures on Revivals of Religion (1835) and later served as president of Oberlin College.
Summary
This site quotes Charles G. Finney 3 times across 3 books, and lists 0 works.
- Lived 1792 to 1875, American.
- Quoted here most in Psalms: 1 of 3.
Charles G. Finney
- Lived
- 1792 to 1875
- Nation
- American
- Tradition
- Presbyterian and Congregational revivalist
- Portrait
- None held under a licence this site can print
3 of 3 quotations
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Quoted in full, because Charles G. Finney died in 1875 and these works are out of copyright. Each citation below names its edition and its year. A citation naming a modernised text means that edition makes its own editorial changes, and that edition's terms are not in this site's record.
“A divine influence seemed to pervade the whole land. Slavery seemed to shut it out from the South.”
Memoirs of Rev. Charles G. Finney, Written by Himself, p. 444
Undated in the archive this site cites.
Psalms 85:6 Will You not revive us again, that Your people may rejoice in You? BSB
“I could feel the impression, like a wave of electricity, going through and through me. Indeed it seemed to come in waves and waves of liquid love; for I could not express it in any other way.”
Memoirs of Rev. Charles G. Finney, Written by Himself, pp. 20 to 21
Undated in the archive this site cites.
Romans 5:5 And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us. BSB
“My duty is to belong to the church, even if the devil belong to it. Where I have authority, I exclude slaveholders from the communion, and I always will as long as I live.”
Lectures on Revivals of Religion, Lecture XV, pp. 277 to 278
Undated in the archive this site cites.
Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. BSB
Influence, on the record
This site quotes Charles G. Finney 3 times across 3 books.
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An American revival preacher, converted at Adams, New York, in 1821, who wrote the Lectures on Revivals of Religion (1835) and later served as president of Oberlin College.
3 quotations across 3 books