Our praying, to be strong, must be buttressed by holy living. The life of faith perfects the prayer of faith. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The first and last stages of holy living are crowned with praying. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours of rigorous study. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The lazy man does not, will not, cannot pray, for prayer demands energy. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Public prayers are of little worth unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Apostolic preaching cannot be carried on unless there be apostolic prayer. Men of God, before anything else, are indispensable to the furtherance… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Prayer, in one phase of its operation, is a disinfectant and a preventive. It purifies the air; it destroys the contagion of… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
If we would have God in the closet, God must have us out of the closet. There is no way of praying… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is necessary to iterate and reiterate that prayer, as a mere habit, as a performance gone through by routine or in… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
God's willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children, just as far as… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
If prayer puts God to work on earth, then, by the same token, prayerlessness rules God out of the world's affairs and… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Hope looks toward the future. Trust looks to the present. Hope expects. Trust possesses...what prayer needs, at all times, is abiding and… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Prayer is the one prime, eternal condition by which the Father is pledged to put the Son in possession of the world.… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat,… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The soul which has come into intimate contact with God in the silence of the prayer chamber is never out of conscious… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Men of prayer, before anything else, are indispensable to the furtherance of the kingdom of God on earth. No other sort will… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
I think Christians fail so often to get answers to their prayers because they do not wait long enough on God. They… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Prayer must be broad in its scope - it must plead for others. Intercession for others is the hallmark of all true… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Trust perfected is prayer perfected. Trust looks to receive the thing asked for and gets it. Trust is not a belief that… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Faith, and hope, and patience and all the strong, beautiful, vital forces of piety are withered and dead in a prayerless life.… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is more active than faith, though enthusiasm cannot remove mountains nor call into action any of the omnipotent forces which faith… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Every mighty move of the Spirit of God has had its source in the prayer chamber. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The conditions of praying are the conditions of righteousness, holiness, and salvation. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Prayer is our most formidable weapon, the thing which makes all else we do efficient. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The only limits to prayer are the promises of God and His ability to fulfill those promises. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat, not to… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share
The pride of learning is against the dependent humility of prayer. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share
Men who pray are, in reality, the only religious men, and it takes a full-measured man to pray. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share
If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share
Prayer is a specific divine appointment, an ordinance of Heaven, whereby God purposes to carry out His gracious designs on earth and to execute… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share
It is necessary to iterate and reiterate that prayer, as a mere habit, as a performance gone through by routine or in a professional… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share
There is power through prayer. For many Christians, prayer is nothing special, just something we're supposed to do - go to church, tithe, read… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share
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… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share
If we would have God in the closet, God must have us out of the closet. There is no way of praying to God,… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share
They are not leaders because of brilliancy. ...but because, by the power of prayer, they could command the power of God. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share
God's Word does not say, "Call unto me, and you will thereby be trained into the happy art of knowing how to be denied.… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at God's footstool. Too often we… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share
Prayer makes a godly man, and puts within him "the mind of Christ," the mind of humility, of self-surrender, of service, of pity, and… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share
Prayer, like faith, obtains promises, enlarges their operation, and adds to the measure of their results. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share
