Edward McKendree Bounds Quotes
Four things let us ever keep in mind: God hears prayer, God heeds prayer, God answers prayer, and God delivers by prayer.
All God's plans have the mark of the cross on them, and all His plans have death to self in them.
He who is too busy to pray will be too busy to live a holy life. Satan had rather we let the grass grow on the path to our prayer chamber than anything else.
It is necessary to iterate and reiterate that prayer, as a mere habit, as a performance gone through by routine or in a professional way, is a dead and rotten thing.
Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.
If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day.
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
We regard prayer no longer as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege which is to be enjoyed, a rare delight that is always revealing some new beauty.
Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still.
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 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.
The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees.
Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been held.
Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls.
We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. That is the teaching of Jesus Christ
Trouble and prayer are closely related. Trouble often drives men to God in prayer, while prayer is but the voice of men in trouble.
Prayer is the greatest of all forces, because it honors God and brings him into active aid.
A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet.
Walking with God down the avenue of prayer we acquire something of His likeness, and unconsciously we become witnesses to others of His beauty and His grace.
No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.
The story of every great Christian achievement is the history of answered 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 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.
Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.
Our praying, to be strong, must be buttressed by holy living. The life of faith perfects the prayer of faith.
Public prayers are of little worth unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying.
It is hard to wait and press and pray, and hear no voice, but stay till God answers.
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.
The prayers of God's saints strengthen the unborn generation against the desolating waves of sin and evil.
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.
Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness to Him, make prayer a rare and feeble thing.
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.
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.
if the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion.
Prayer is the highest intelligence, the profoundest wisdom, the most vital, the most joyous, the most efficacious, the most powerful of all vocations.
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.
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.
