God Quotes by Edward McKendree Bounds

God shapes the world by 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

Man's access in prayer to God opens everything and makes his impoverishment his wealth. All things are his through prayer.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

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

— 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

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

He only can truly pray who is all aglow for holiness, for God, and for heaven.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

It must never be forgotten that Almighty God rules this world. He is not an absentee God.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

— 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

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

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

Mans access in prayer to God opens everything and makes his impoverishment his wealth. All things are his through prayer.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

The word of God is the food by which prayer is nourished and made strong.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Preaching is God's great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold; when wrongly…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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