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Charles Grandison Finney was an American religious leader and minister, born on August 29, 1792, and died on August 16, 1875. Known for his preaching and religious reform activities during the Second Great Awakening, Finney is considered one of the key figures in the American religious revival movement.

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“Nothing tends more to cement the hearts of Christians than praying together. Never do they love one another so well as when they witness the outpouring of each other's hearts in prayer.”

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Book:Lectures on Revivals of Religion

Source: Lectures on Revivals of Religion

“Effective prayer is prayer that attains what it seeks. It is prayer that moves God, effecting its end.”

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Author:Charles Grandison Finney

“Some men will spin out a long prayer telling God who and what he is, or they pray out a whole system of divinity. Some people preach, others exhort the people, till everybody wishes they would stop, and God wishes so, too, most undoubtedly.”

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Author:Charles Grandison Finney

“Unless I had the spirit of prayer, I could do nothing.”

Book:The Original Memoirs of Charles G. Finney

Source: The Original Memoirs of Charles G. Finney

“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.”

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Author:Charles Grandison Finney

“Prevailing prayer is that which secures an answer. Saying prayers is not offering prevailing prayer. The prevalence of prayer does not depend so much on quantity as on quality.”

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Author:Charles Grandison Finney