E.M.Bounds Quotes

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

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

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

Prayer thrives in the atmosphere of true devotion.

Preaching is God's great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold. When wrongly executed, no evil can exceed its damaging results.

Safety is in Heaven. Put your values there only; put your heart there. No tears are there to flood your heart, no sorrows there to break it, no losses there to grieve and embitter.

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

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

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

He who would pray, must obey.

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

The Scriptures bear ample and continuous evidence that the faith of the resurrection of the body lies in the faith that Jesus Christ died and rose again.

Sainthood's piety is made, refined, perfected, by prayer. The gospel moves with slow and timid pace when the saints are not at their prayers early and late and long.

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.

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

A denial of the reality of demonical possessions on the part of anyone who believes the Gospel narrative to be true and inspired may justly be regarded as simply and plainly inconceivable.

It (prayer) dispels frivolity and drives away all skin-deep forms of worship, and makes worship a serious and deep-seated service, impregnating body, soul, and spirit with its heavenly infusion.

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.

Spiritual work is taxing work, and men are loath to do it. Praying, true praying, costs an outlay of serious attention and of time, which flesh and blood do not relish.

To him who prays, and as he prays, the hour is sacred because it is God's hour

Our devotions are not measured by the clock, but time is of the essence. The ability to wait, and stay, and press belongs essentially to our intercourse with God.

Lack of spiritual desire should grieve us and lead us to lament its absence, to seek earnestly for its bestowal, so that our praying, henceforth, should be an expression of the soul's sincere desire.

Preaching never edifies a prayerless soul.

Public prayers of are of little value unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying.

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.

Non-praying is lawlessness discord anarchy.

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

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

Trouble and prayer are closely related. . . . Trouble often drives men to God in prayer while prayer is but the voice of men in trouble.

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

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.

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.

It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends for none but the earnest man gets access to the ear of God.

The possibilities of prayer are found in its allying itself with the purposes of God for God's purposes and man's praying are the combination of all potent and omnipotent forces.

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

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

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

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.