“Revival is the return of the Church from her backslidings, and the conversion of sinners.”Charles Finney
Source
Charles G. Finney, Lectures on Revivals of Religion (1835), Lectures to Professing Christians (1837), Lectures on Systematic Theology (1846), and Power from on High, a posthumous compilation of his writings on the Holy Spirit and Christian ministry. Exact original-source attribution has not been independently verified.