Church Quotes by Edward McKendree Bounds

11 Church quotes by Edward McKendree Bounds

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Edward McKendree Bounds shares eleven short reflections on church, each grounded in his pastoral concern. This compact selection offers a clear sense of his gentle, community‑oriented voice.

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In all God's plans for human redemption, He proposes that men pray. The men are to pray in every place, in the…

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The men to whom Jesus Christ committed the fortunes and destiny of His Church were men of prayer. To no other kind…

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if the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion.

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Prayer-leadership preserves the spirituality of the Church, just as prayerless leaders make for unspiritual conditions.

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There is power through prayer. For many Christians, prayer is nothing special, just something we're supposed to do - go to church,…

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God requires to be represented by a fiery Church... two things are intolerable to Him-insincerity and lukewarmness.

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None but praying leaders can have praying followers. A praying pulpit will beget praying pews. We do greatly need pastors and evangelists…

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Men of prayer, before anything else, are indispensable to the furtherance of the kingdom of God on earth. No other sort will…

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Leaders in the realm of religious activity are to be judged by their praying habits and not by their money or social…

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We are constantly straining to devise new methods, new plans, new organizations to advance the Church and secure enlargement and efficiency for…

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Enthusiasm is more active than faith, though enthusiasm cannot remove mountains nor call into action any of the omnipotent forces which faith…

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Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat, not to…

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The pride of learning is against the dependent humility of prayer.

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Men who pray are, in reality, the only religious men, and it takes a full-measured man to pray.

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If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the…

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Prayer is a specific divine appointment, an ordinance of Heaven, whereby God purposes to carry out His gracious designs on earth and to execute…

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It is necessary to iterate and reiterate that prayer, as a mere habit, as a performance gone through by routine or in a professional…

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There is power through prayer. For many Christians, prayer is nothing special, just something we're supposed to do - go to church, tithe, read…

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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…

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If we would have God in the closet, God must have us out of the closet. There is no way of praying to God,…

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They are not leaders because of brilliancy. ...but because, by the power of prayer, they could command the power of God.

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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.…

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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.

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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…

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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…

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Prayer, like faith, obtains promises, enlarges their operation, and adds to the measure of their results.

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