The first and last stages of holy living are crowned with praying. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
All God's plans have the mark of the cross on them, and all His plans have death to self in them. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The conditions of praying are the conditions of righteousness, holiness, and salvation. — 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
Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls. — 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
A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet. — 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
The story of every great Christian achievement is the history of answered prayer. — 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
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
Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness… — 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
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
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
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 Image
The pride of learning is against the dependent humility of prayer. — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
