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A severe apprenticeship in the trade of praying must be served in order to become a journeyman in it.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
A life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
Man's access in prayer to God opens everything and makes his impoverishment his wealth. All things are his through prayer.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
Prayer concerns God, whose purposes and plans are conditioned on prayer. His will and His glory are bound up in praying.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
Nothing is more important to God than prayer in dealing with mankind. But it is likewise all-important to man to pray.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours of rigorous study.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
To give prayer the secondary place is to make God seconday in life's affairs.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
Importunate praying is the earnest inward movement of the heart toward God.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
In doing God's work, there is no substitute for praying. The men of prayer cannot be displaced with other kinds of men.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
Our praying, to be strong, must be buttressed by holy living. The life of faith perfects the prayer of faith.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
We must lose all for Christ in order to gain all for Christ.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
Every mighty move of the Spirit of God has had its source in the prayer chamber.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
Private place and plenty of time are the life of prayer.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
They are not leaders because of brilliancy ... but because, by the power of prayer, they could command the power of God.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
The world needs more true praying to save it from the reign and ruin of Satan.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
Prayer, in one phase of its operation, is a disinfectant and a preventive. It purifies the air; it destroys the contagion of evil.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
Only God can move mountains, but faith and prayer can move God
— Edward McKendree Bounds
The reformer is one who with clarion voice will call the ministry back to it's knees.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
The character of our praying will determine the character of our preaching. Light praying makes light preaching.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
Prayer is the highest intelligence, the profoundest wisdom, the most vital, the most joyous, the most efficacious, the most powerful of all vocations.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
Men who pray are, in reality, the only religious men, and it takes a full-measured man to pray.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
Prayer thrives in the atmosphere of true devotion.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
The word of God is the food by which prayer is nourished and made strong.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
Prayer-leadership preserves the spirituality of the Church, just as prayerless leaders make for unspiritual conditions.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian graces have their being, bloom and fruitage in prayer.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
The stream of praying cannot rise higher than the fountain of living.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
It is hard to wait and press and pray, and hear no voice, but stay till God answers.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
Holy living is essential preparation for prayer.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
God requires to be represented by a fiery Church ... two things are intolerable to Him-insincerity and lukewarmness.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
When trust is perfect and there is no doubt, prayer is simply the outstretched hand ready to receive.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
If the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
Prayer, like faith, obtains promises, enlarges their operation, and adds to the measure of their results.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
Prayer puts God's work in his hands-and keeps it there.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
The more praying there is in the world, the better the world will be, the mightier the forces against evil everywhere.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been held.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
Four things let us ever keep in mind: God hears prayer, God heeds prayer, God answers prayer, and God delivers by prayer.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
Non-praying is lawlessness, discord, anarchy.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
That man cannot possibly be called a Christian, who does not pray.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
Bible revelations are not against reason but above reason, for the uses of faith, man's highest faculty.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
The prayers of God's saints strengthen the unborn generation against the desolating waves of sin and evil.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
The pride of learning is against the dependent humility of prayer.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
Faith accepts the Bible as the word and will of God and rests upon its truth without question and without other evidence.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
The first and last stages of holy living are crowned with praying.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
Men would pray better if they lived better. They would get more from God if they lived more obedient and well-pleasing to God.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
We can do nothing without prayer.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
You will find out that in the measure you have allowed yourself to look back you have missed that which God has for you.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
Prayer is our most formidable weapon, the thing which makes all else we do efficient.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
Christianity is not rationalism, but faith in God's revelation. A conspicuous, all-important item in that revelation is the resurrection of the body.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
Crucified preaching only can give life. Crucified preaching can come only from a crucified man.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
He who would pray, must obey.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
The conditions of praying are the conditions of righteousness, holiness, and salvation.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
Praying men must be strong in hope, and faith, and prayer.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
Bread for today is bread enough.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
All God's plans have the mark of the cross on them, and all His plans have death to self in them.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
Praying men are God's agents on earth, the representative of government of Heaven, set to a specific task on the earth.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
It must never be forgotten that Almighty God rules this world. He is not an absentee God.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
Prayer is God's plan to supply man's great and continuous need with God's great and continuous abundance.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
In prayerful sympathy and love. Hold to the old truth double distilled. — Edward McKendree Bounds
Faith does the impossible because it brings God to undertake for us, and nothing is impossible with God.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
He only can truly pray who is all aglow for holiness, for God, and for heaven.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
The lazy man does not, will not, cannot pray, for prayer demands energy.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
The only limits to prayer are the promises of God and His ability to fulfill those promises.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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
— Edward McKendree Bounds
The story of every great Christian achievement is the history of answered prayer.
— Edward McKendree Bounds