Edward McKendree Bounds Quotes
Top 87 wise famous quotes and sayings by Edward McKendree Bounds
Edward McKendree Bounds Famous Quotes & Sayings
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A severe apprenticeship in the trade of praying must be served in order to become a journeyman in it.
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.
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.
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.
The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself.
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.
Prayer, in one phase of its operation, is a disinfectant and a preventive. It purifies the air; it destroys the contagion of evil.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.
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.
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.
Faith accepts the Bible as the word and will of God and rests upon its truth without question and without other evidence.
Men would pray better if they lived better. They would get more from God if they lived more obedient and well-pleasing to God.
You will find out that in the measure you have allowed yourself to look back you have missed that which God has for you.
Christianity is not rationalism, but faith in God's revelation. A conspicuous, all-important item in that revelation is the resurrection of the body.
No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.
Praying men are God's agents on earth, the representative of government of Heaven, set to a specific task on the earth.
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.
Faith does the impossible because it brings God to undertake for us, and nothing is impossible with God.
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.