Charles Grandison Finney cytaty

Charles Grandison Finney – amerykański kaznodzieja i lider Drugiego wielkiego przebudzenia. Kluczowa postać ewangelikalizmu. Przedstawiciel ruchu uświęceniowego zwracającego uwagę na konieczność osobistego nawrócenia i pobożnego życia. Chociaż z wyznania był prezbiterianinem, to jednak nie zgadzał się z doktryną starej szkoły kalwińskiej teologii i uważał ją za niebiblijną. Był zwolennikiem chrześcijańskiego perfekcjonizmu, pionierem reform społecznych na rzecz kobiet i czarnoskórej ludności. Był także religijnym pisarzem i prezesem w Oberlin College.

Za młodu był wolnomularzem. Porzucił masonerię po nawróceniu na chrześcijaństwo i uznał ją za antytezę chrześcijaństwa. Wikipedia

✵ 29. Sierpień 1792 – 16. Sierpień 1875

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Charles Grandison Finney: Cytaty po angielsku

“Impenitence is a phenomenon of the will, and consists in the will's cleaving to self-indulgence under light. It consists in the will's pertinacious adherence to the gratification of self, in despite of all the light with which the sinner is surrounded. It is not, as has been said, a passive state nor a mere negation, nor the love of sin for its own sake; but it is an active and obstinate state of the will, a determined holding on to that course of self-seeking which constitutes sin, not from a love to sin, but for the sake of the gratification.”

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"Repentance and Impenitence" p. 368
Lectures on Systematic Theology (1878)

“Brethren, our preaching will bear its legitimate fruits. If immorality prevails in the land, the fault is ours in a great degree. If there is a decay of conscience, the pulpit is responsible for it. If the public press lacks moral discrimination, the pulpit is responsible for it. If the church is degenerate and worldly, the pulpit is responsible for it. If the world loses its interest in religion, the pulpit is responsible for it. If Satan rules in our halls of legislation, the pulpit is responsible for it. If our politics become so corrupt that the very foundations of our government are ready to fall away, the pulpit is responsible for it. Let us not ignore this fact, my dear brethren; but let us lay it to heart, and be thoroughly awake to our responsibility in respect to the morals of this nation.”

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The Decay of Conscience

“When the claims of God are revealed to the mind, it must necessarily yield to them, or strengthen itself in sin. It must, as it were, gird itself up, and struggle to resist the claims of duty. This strengthening self in sin under light is the particular form of sin which we call impenitence.”

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"Repentance and Impenitence" p. 369
Lectures on Systematic Theology (1878)

“Self-loathing is a natural and a necessary consequence of those intellectual views of self that are implied in repentance.”

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"Repentance and Impenitence" p. 366
Lectures on Systematic Theology (1878)

“Repentance … implies a conviction, that God is wholly right, and the sinner wholly wrong, and a thorough and hearty abandonment of all excuses and apologies for sin. It implies an entire and universal acquittal of God from every shade and degree of blame, a thorough taking of the entire blame of sin to self. It implies a deep and thorough abasement of self in the dust, a crying out of soul against self, and a most sincere and universal, intellectual, and hearty exaltation of God.”

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"Repentance and Impenitence" p. 365
Lectures on Systematic Theology (1878)

“Whenever (a Christian) sins, he must, for the time being, cease to be holy. This is self-evident. Whenever he sins, he must be condemned; he must incur the penalty of the law of God ... If it be said that the precept is still binding upon him, but that with respect to the Christian, the penalty is forever set aside, or abrogated, I reply, that to abrogate the penalty is to repeal the precept, for a precept without penalty is no law. It is only counsel or advice. The Christian, therefore, is justified no longer than he obeys, and must be condemned when he disobeys or Antinomianism is true ... In these respects, then, the sinning Christian and the unconverted sinner are upon precisely the same ground.”

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"Does a Christian cease to be a Christian, whenever he commits a sin?" p. 65
Lectures on Systematic Theology (1878)