Earth Quotes by Edward McKendree Bounds

11 Earth quotes by Edward McKendree Bounds

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Edward McKendree Bounds often framed the natural world as a place of prayer. These eleven snippets capture his view of the earth as a living testament to divine presence.

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Praying men are God's agents on earth, the representative of government of Heaven, set to a specific task on the earth.

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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…

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God shapes the world by prayer. The prayers of God's saints are the capitol stock of heaven by which God carries on…

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If prayer puts God to work on earth, then, by the same token, prayerlessness rules God out of the world's affairs and…

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Apostolic preaching cannot be carried on unless there be apostolic prayer. Men of God, before anything else, are indispensable to the furtherance…

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The strong argument for Heaven as a place centers in and clusters about Jesus. The man Jesus, bearing a man's form, the…

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Heavenly citizenship and heavenly homesickness are in prayer. Prayer is an appeal from the lowness, from the emptiness, from the need of…

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Prayer is far-reaching in its influence and worldwide in its effects. It affects all men, affects them everywhere, and affects them in…

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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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Prayer is the one prime, eternal condition by which the Father is pledged to put the Son in possession of the world.…

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Thoughts of heaven quicken our faith. Our only sure and solid foundation is the hope of heaven. The only solution to earth's…

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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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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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