We can never know God as it is our privilege to know Him by brief repetitions that are requests for personal favors,… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Heavenly citizenship and heavenly homesickness are in prayer. Prayer is an appeal from the lowness, from the emptiness, from the need of… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles, overcomes every… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. That is the teaching of Jesus Christ — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
While the pulpit must hold to its unswerving loyalty to the Word of God, it must, at the same time, be loyal… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
We may excuse the spiritual poverty of our preaching in many ways, but the true secret will be found in the lack… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Prayer should not be regarded as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege to be enjoyed, a rare… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian graces have their being, bloom and fruitage in prayer. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer; but a capacity for faith, the power… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care, much thought, practice… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at God's footstool. Too… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. The lips that uttered them may be closed to death, the heart that… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous, urgent, ardent.… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Praying gives sense, brings wisdom, and broadens and strengthens the mind. The prayer closet is a perfect schoolteacher and schoolhouse for the… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
No erudition, no purity of diction, no width of mental outlook, no flowers of eloquence, no grace of person can atone for… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
None but praying leaders can have praying followers. A praying pulpit will beget praying pews. We do greatly need pastors and evangelists… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Prayer lays hold upon God and influences Him to work. This is the meaning of prayer as it concerns God. This is… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Man's access in prayer to God opens everything and makes his impoverishment his wealth. All things are his through prayer. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
I feel it is far better to begin with God, to see His face first, to get my soul near Him before… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
By prayer, the ability is secured to feel the law of love, to speak according to the law of love, and to… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Prayer concerns God, whose purposes and plans are conditioned on prayer. His will and His glory are bound up in praying. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
We regard prayer no longer as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege which is to be enjoyed,… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
No insistence in the Scripture is more pressing than that we must pray...How clear it is, when the Bible is consulted, that… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been held. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The possibilities of prayer are found in its allying itself with the purposes of God, for God's purposes and man's praying are… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
We can never expect to grow in the likeness of our Lord unless we follow His example and give more time to… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
It is true that Bible prayers in word and print are short, but the praying men of the Bible were with God… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
We cannot talk to God strongly when we have not lived for God strongly. The closet cannot be made holy to God… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Prayer is the easiest and hardest of all things; the simplest and the sublimest; the weakest and the most powerful; its results… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
In doing God's work, there is no substitute for praying. The men of prayer cannot be displaced with other kinds of men. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Prayer is a specific divine appointment, an ordinance of Heaven, whereby God purposes to carry out His gracious designs on earth and… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. "Choked to death" would be the coroner's verdict in many cases of… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The sanctity of prayer is needed to impregnate business. We need the spirit of Sunday carried over to Monday and continued until… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The men to whom Jesus Christ committed the fortunes and destiny of His Church were men of prayer. To no other kind… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Walking with God down the avenue of prayer we acquire something of His likeness, and unconsciously we become witnesses to others of… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Prayer is the highest intelligence, the profoundest wisdom, the most vital, the most joyous, the most efficacious, the most powerful of all… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
In all God's plans for human redemption, He proposes that men pray. The men are to pray in every place, in the… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Prayer is of transcendent importance. Prayer is the mightiest agent to advance God's work. Praying hearts and hands only can do God's… — 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
