E.M.Bounds Quotes

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.

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

Pray for 'all men.' We usually pray more for things than we do for men. Our prayers should be thrown across their pathway as they rush in their downward course to a lost eternity.

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

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

Bread for today is bread enough.

Our praying, however, needs to be pressed and pursued with an energy that never tires, a persistency which will not be denied, and a courage which never fails.

Non-praying is lawlessness, discord, anarchy.

The greatest value in trouble comes to those who bow lowest before the throne.

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

Apostolic preaching cannot be carried on unless there be apostolic prayer. Men of God, before anything else, are indispensable to the furtherance of the kingdom of God on earth.

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

Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still. He will never talk well and with real success to men for God who has not learned well how to talk to God for men.

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

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.

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

We can never expect to grow in the likeness of our Lord unless we follow His example and give more time to communion with the Father. A revival of real praying would produce a spiritual revolution.

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

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

Holy living is essential preparation for prayer.

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

Prayer in Jesus' name puts the crowning crown on God, because it glorifies Him through the Son and it pledges the Son to give to men 'whatsoever and anything' they shall ask.

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

Hope looks toward the future. Trust looks to the present. Hope expects. Trust possesses...what prayer needs, at all times, is abiding and abundant trust.

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

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

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

. . . every preacher who does not make prayer a mighty factor in his own life and ministry is weak as a factor in God's work and is powerless to project God's cause in this world.

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.

Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.

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

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

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

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

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

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

By prayer, the ability is secured to feel the law of love, to speak according to the law of love, and to do everything in harmony with the law of love.

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.

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

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

It is not great talents or great learning or great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God.

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

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

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

Prayer is a specific divine appointment, an ordinance of Heaven, whereby God purposes to carry out His gracious designs on earth and to execute and make efficient the plan of salvation.

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

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

It is true that Bible prayers in word and print are short, but the praying men of the Bible were with God through many a sweet and holy wrestling hour. They won by few words but long waiting.

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

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