Praying that does not result in right thinking and right living is a farce. We have missed the whole office of prayer… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian graces have their being, bloom and fruitage in prayer. — 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
A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Prayer is the lungs through which holiness breathes. Prayer is not only the language of spiritual life, but also makes its very… — 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
Preaching is not the performance of an hour. It is the outflow of a life. It takes twenty years to make a… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Thoughts of heaven quicken our faith. Our only sure and solid foundation is the hope of heaven. The only solution to earth's… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The transfiguration of Jesus is one of the typical facts of the resurrection of the body; not only of the glorious change,… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
To give prayer the secondary place is to make God seconday in life's affairs. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The first and last stages of holy living are crowned with praying. — 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
A life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The stream of praying cannot rise higher than the fountain of living. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Faith, and hope, and patience and all the strong, beautiful, vital forces of piety are withered and dead in a prayerless life.… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Love is kindled in a flame, and ardency is its life. Flame is the air which true Christian experience breathes. It feeds… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Crucified preaching only can give life. Crucified preaching can come only from a crucified man. — 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
