The first and last stages of holy living are crowned with praying. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Our praying, to be strong, must be buttressed by holy living. The life of faith perfects the prayer of faith. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Prayer and a holy life are one. They mutually act and react. Neither can survive alone. The absence of the one is… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
We cannot talk to God strongly when we have not lived for God strongly. The closet cannot be made holy to God… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
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 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
It is true that Bible prayers in word and print are short, but the praying men of the Bible were with God… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Prayer is no fitful, short-lived thing. It is no voice crying unheard and unheeded in the silence. It is a voice which… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Preachers are not sermon makers, but men makers and saint makers, and he only is well-trained for this business who has made… — 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
