By Charles G. Finney
This travail of soul, is that deep agony, which persons feel when they lay hold on God for such a blessing, and will not let him go till they receive it.
Truth by itself will do nothing but harden men in impenitence.
Facts, real or supposed, should be used to show the truth.
Entire consecration to God is indispensable to the prayer of faith. You must live a holy life, and consecrate all to God—your time, talents, influence—all you have.
Religion is obedience to God, the voluntary submission of the soul to the will of God.
You must not only recall them to mind, but you must actually renounce them, and leave them off.
Prayer is the state of the heart. The spirit of prayer is a state of continual desire and anxiety of mind for the salvation of sinners.
Winning souls is converting men.
Faith must always have evidence. A man cannot believe a thing, unless he sees something which he supposes to be evidence.
Without this spirit there can be no such sympathy between you and God that you can either walk with God or work with God. You need to have a strong beating of your heart with his, or you need not expect to be greatly useful.
A revival of religion is the renewal of the first love of Christians, resulting in the awakening and conversion of sinners to God.
If you have much of the Spirit of God, it is not unlikely you will be thought deranged, by many. We judge men to be deranged when they act differently from what we think to be prudent and according to common sense.
Confess and forsake your sins. God will never lead you as one of his hidden ones, and let you into his secrets, unless you confess and forsake your sins. Not be always confessing and never forsake, but confess and forsake too.
Nothing tends more to cement the hearts of Christians than praying together.
When a sinner repents, that state of mind makes it proper for God to forgive him.
If you will then go over the ground the second time, and give your solemn and fixed attention to it, you will find that the things you have put down will suggest other things of which you have been guilty, connected with them, or near them.
Pray for ministers, that God would give them this wisdom to win souls.
Go and inquire among the obscure members of the church, and you will always find that somebody had been praying for a revival, and was expecting it—some man or woman had been agonizing in prayer.
The conversion of a sinner consists in his obeying the truth.
God does not trifle with his children. He does not go and excite in them a desire for one blessing, to turn them off with something else.
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