Edward McKendree Bounds Quotes

A severe apprenticeship in the trade of praying must be served in order to become a journeyman in it.

A life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life.

Man's access in prayer to God opens everything and makes his impoverishment his wealth. All things are his through prayer.

Prayer concerns God, whose purposes and plans are conditioned on prayer. His will and His glory are bound up in praying.

Nothing is more important to God than prayer in dealing with mankind. But it is likewise all-important to man to pray.

We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours of rigorous study.

To give prayer the secondary place is to make God seconday in life's affairs.

No man can do a great and enduring work for God who is not a man of prayer, and no man can be a man of prayer who does not give much time to praying.

If prayer puts God to work on earth, then, by the same token, prayerlessness rules God out of the world's affairs and prevents Him from working.

Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.

Importunate praying is the earnest inward movement of the heart toward God.

In doing God's work, there is no substitute for praying. The men of prayer cannot be displaced with other kinds of men.

Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Our praying, to be strong, must be buttressed by holy living. The life of faith perfects the prayer of faith.

We must lose all for Christ in order to gain all for Christ.

Every mighty move of the Spirit of God has had its source in the prayer chamber.

The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself.

Private place and plenty of time are the life of prayer.

They are not leaders because of brilliancy ... but because, by the power of prayer, they could command the power of God.

The preachers who gain mighty results for God are the men who have prevailed in their pleadings with God ere venturing to plead with men.

God shapes the world by prayer. The prayers of God's saints are the capitol stock of heaven by which God carries on His great work upon the earth.

If we would have God in the closet, God must have us out of the closet. There is no way of praying to God, but by living to God.

The world needs more true praying to save it from the reign and ruin of Satan.

Prayer, in one phase of its operation, is a disinfectant and a preventive. It purifies the air; it destroys the contagion of evil.

Only God can move mountains, but faith and prayer can move God

The reformer is one who with clarion voice will call the ministry back to it's knees.

The character of our praying will determine the character of our preaching. Light praying makes light preaching.

Prayer is the highest intelligence, the profoundest wisdom, the most vital, the most joyous, the most efficacious, the most powerful of all vocations.

Men who pray are, in reality, the only religious men, and it takes a full-measured man to pray.

Prayer thrives in the atmosphere of true devotion.

The word of God is the food by which prayer is nourished and made strong.

Prayer-leadership preserves the spirituality of the Church, just as prayerless leaders make for unspiritual conditions.

The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian graces have their being, bloom and fruitage in prayer.

The stream of praying cannot rise higher than the fountain of living.

God's cause is committed to men; God commits Himself to men. Praying men are the vice-regents of God; they do His work and carry out His plans.

It is hard to wait and press and pray, and hear no voice, but stay till God answers.

Holy living is essential preparation for prayer.

The most important lesson we can learn is how to pray. Prayers do not die, prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them.

God requires to be represented by a fiery Church ... two things are intolerable to Him-insincerity and lukewarmness.

When trust is perfect and there is no doubt, prayer is simply the outstretched hand ready to receive.

If the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion.

Prayer, like faith, obtains promises, enlarges their operation, and adds to the measure of their results.

Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.

Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls.

Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.

Prayer puts God's work in his hands-and keeps it there.

The resurrection of Jesus Christ was necessary to establish the truth of his mission and put the stamp of all-conquering power on his gospel.

The more praying there is in the world, the better the world will be, the mightier the forces against evil everywhere.

Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been held.

Four things let us ever keep in mind: God hears prayer, God heeds prayer, God answers prayer, and God delivers by prayer.

Non-praying is lawlessness, discord, anarchy.

That man cannot possibly be called a Christian, who does not pray.

That man is the most immortal who has done the most and the best praying. They are God heroes, God's saints, God's servants, God's vicegerents.

We can never know God as it is our privilege to know Him by brief repetitions that are requests for personal favors, and nothing more.

Bible revelations are not against reason but above reason, for the uses of faith, man's highest faculty.

The prayers of God's saints strengthen the unborn generation against the desolating waves of sin and evil.

We cannot talk to God strongly when we have not lived for God strongly. The closet cannot be made holy to God when the life has not been holy to God.

The pride of learning is against the dependent humility of prayer.

Faith accepts the Bible as the word and will of God and rests upon its truth without question and without other evidence.

The first and last stages of holy living are crowned with praying.

Men would pray better if they lived better. They would get more from God if they lived more obedient and well-pleasing to God.

We can do nothing without prayer.

You will find out that in the measure you have allowed yourself to look back you have missed that which God has for you.

Prayer is our most formidable weapon, the thing which makes all else we do efficient.

Christianity is not rationalism, but faith in God's revelation. A conspicuous, all-important item in that revelation is the resurrection of the body.

Crucified preaching only can give life. Crucified preaching can come only from a crucified man.

He who would pray, must obey.

No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.

The conditions of praying are the conditions of righteousness, holiness, and salvation.

Praying men must be strong in hope, and faith, and prayer.

Bread for today is bread enough.

Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need.

All God's plans have the mark of the cross on them, and all His plans have death to self in them.

Praying men are God's agents on earth, the representative of government of Heaven, set to a specific task on the earth.

A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet.

It must never be forgotten that Almighty God rules this world. He is not an absentee God.

Prayer is God's plan to supply man's great and continuous need with God's great and continuous abundance.

The Bible nowhere enters into an argument to prove the person and being of God. It assumes His being and reveals His person and character.

In prayerful sympathy and love. Hold to the old truth
double distilled.

Faith does the impossible because it brings God to undertake for us, and nothing is impossible with God.

He only can truly pray who is all aglow for holiness, for God, and for heaven.

Prayer and a holy life are one. They mutually act and react. Neither can survive alone. The absence of the one is the absence of the other.

Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet.

The lazy man does not, will not, cannot pray, for prayer demands energy.

The only limits to prayer are the promises of God and His ability to fulfill those promises.

God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces of against evil

The story of every great Christian achievement is the history of answered prayer.