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Quotes from Lectures on Systematic Theology — Charles Grandison Finney

1792–1875 United States

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

Lectures on Systematic Theology (1878)

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.

Lectures on Systematic Theology (1878)

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