Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
That man cannot possibly be called a Christian, who does not pray. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
A life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
It is hard to wait and press and pray, and hear no voice, but stay till God answers. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Men who pray are, in reality, the only religious men, and it takes a full-measured man to pray. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Praying men must be strong in hope, and faith, and prayer. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
God is waiting to be put to the test by His people in prayer. He delights in being put to the test… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
God's cause is committed to men; God commits Himself to men. Praying men are the vice-regents of God; they do His work… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
A man can pray better because of the prayers of the past; a man can live holier because of the prayers of… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
He who is too busy to pray will be too busy to live a holy life. Satan had rather we let the… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
There is power through prayer. For many Christians, prayer is nothing special, just something we're supposed to do - go to church,… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Men would pray better if they lived better. They would get more from God if they lived more obedient and well-pleasing to… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Praying that does not result in right thinking and right living is a farce. We have missed the whole office of prayer… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The goal of prayer is the ear of God, a goal that can only be reached by patient and continued and continuous… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Prayer is no fitful, short-lived thing. It is no voice crying unheard and unheeded in the silence. It is a voice which… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
To say prayers in a decent, delicate way is not heavy work. But to pray really, to pray till hell feels the… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
True praying has the largest results for good; and poor praying, the least. We cannot do too much of real praying; we… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Love is kindled in a flame, and ardency is its life. Flame is the air which true Christian experience breathes. It feeds… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Praying gives sense, brings wisdom, broadens and strengthens the mind. The closet is a perfect school-teacher and schoolhouse for the preacher. Thought… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The central significance of prayer is not in the things that happen as results, but in the deepening intimacy and unhurried communion… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The pride of learning is against the dependent humility of prayer. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The word of God is the food by which prayer is nourished and made strong. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
When trust is perfect and there is no doubt, prayer is simply the outstretched hand ready to receive. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The stream of praying cannot rise higher than the fountain of living. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The story of every great Christian achievement is the history of answered prayer. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The prayers of God's saints strengthen the unborn generation against the desolating waves of sin and evil. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
To give prayer the secondary place is to make God seconday in life's affairs. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The character of our praying will determine the character of our preaching. Light praying makes light preaching. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Prayer is God's plan to supply man's great and continuous need with God's great and continuous abundance. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Importunate praying is the earnest inward movement of the heart toward God. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Prayer, like faith, obtains promises, enlarges their operation, and adds to the measure of their results. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Prayer is the greatest of all forces, because it honors God and brings him into active aid. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Only God can move mountains, but faith and prayer can move God — 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
