Bounds Quotes by Edward McKendree Bounds

Prayer succeeds when all else fails

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Private place and plenty of time are the life of prayer.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Non-praying is lawlessness, discord, anarchy.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

The first and last stages of holy living are crowned with praying.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Prayer concerns God, whose purposes and plans are conditioned on prayer. His will and His glory are bound up in praying.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

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

The conditions of praying are the conditions of righteousness, holiness, and salvation.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

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

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

We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. That is the teaching of Jesus Christ

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Public prayers are of little worth unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

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

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

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

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

Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Prayer is the greatest of all forces, because it honors God and brings him into active aid.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Four things let us ever keep in mind: God hears prayer, God heeds prayer, God answers prayer, and God delivers by prayer.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

The story of every great Christian achievement is the history of answered prayer.

— Edward McKendree Bounds