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
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
Our praying, however, needs to be pressed and pursued with an energy that never tires, a persistency which will not be denied,… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The more praying there is in the world, the better the world will be, the mightier the forces against evil everywhere. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Prayer makes a godly man, and puts within him "the mind of Christ," the mind of humility, of self-surrender, of service, of… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The most important lesson we can learn is how to pray. Prayers do not die, prayers live before God, and God's heart… — 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
Praying which does not result in pure conduct is a delusion. We have missed the whole office and virtue of praying if… — 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
True praying has the largest results for good. Poor praying the least. We cannot do too much of real praying. We cannot… — 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
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
That man is the most immortal who has done the most and the best praying. They are God heroes, God's saints, God's… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
No man can do a great and enduring work for God who is not a man of prayer, and no man can… — 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
