Nothing is more important to God than prayer in dealing with mankind. But it is likewise all-important to man to pray. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
If prayer puts God to work on earth, then, by the same token, prayerlessness rules God out of the world's affairs and… — 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
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
Man's access in prayer to God opens everything and makes his impoverishment his wealth. All things are his through prayer. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The preachers who gain mighty results for God are the men who have prevailed in their pleadings with God ere venturing to… — 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
The word of God is the food by which prayer is nourished and made strong. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
God is waiting to be put to the test by His people in prayer. He delights in being put to the test… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
We may excuse the spiritual poverty of our preaching in many ways, but the true secret will be found in the lack… — 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 specific divine appointment, an ordinance of Heaven, whereby God purposes to carry out His gracious designs on earth and… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The men to whom Jesus Christ committed the fortunes and destiny of His Church were men of prayer. To no other kind… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The men who have most fully illustrated Christ in their character and have most powerfully affected the world for Him have been… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
In all God's plans for human redemption, He proposes that men pray. The men are to pray in every place, in the… — 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
Men of prayer, before anything else, are indispensable to the furtherance of the kingdom of God on earth. No other sort will… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The life-giving preacher is a man of God, whose heart is ever athirst for God, whose soul is ever following hard after… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Praying men are God's agents on earth, the representative of government of Heaven, set to a specific task on the earth. — 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
Faith accepts the Bible as the word and will of God and rests upon its truth without question and without other evidence. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Mans access in prayer to God opens everything and makes his impoverishment his wealth. All things are his through prayer. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Every preacher who does not make prayer a mighty factor in his own life and ministry is weak as a factor in… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
We are feeble, weak and impoverished because of our failure to pray. God is restrained in doing because we are restrained by… — 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
God shapes the world by prayer. The prayers of God's saints are the capitol stock of heaven by which God carries on… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
When we say that prayer puts God to work, it is simply to say that man has it in his power by… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
He only can truly pray who is all aglow for holiness, for God, and for heaven. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
It must never be forgotten that Almighty God rules this world. He is not an absentee God. — 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
Prayer concerns God, whose purposes and plans are conditioned on prayer. His will and His glory are bound up in praying. — 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
The Bible nowhere enters into an argument to prove the person and being of God. It assumes His being and reveals His… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
It is not great talents or great learning or great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith,… — 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
While the pulpit must hold to its unswerving loyalty to the Word of God, it must, at the same time, be loyal… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Prayer lays hold upon God and influences Him to work. This is the meaning of prayer as it concerns God. This is… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Christianity is not rationalism, but faith in God's revelation. A conspicuous, all-important item in that revelation is the resurrection of the body. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The character as well as the fortunes of the gospel is committed to the preacher. He makes or mars the message from… — 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
