Men Quotes by Edward McKendree Bounds

The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

The lazy man does not, will not, cannot pray, for prayer demands energy.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Crucified preaching only can give life. Crucified preaching can come only from a crucified man.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Prayer is God's plan to supply man's great and continuous need with God's great and continuous abundance.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Men who pray are, in reality, the only religious men, and it takes a full-measured man to pray.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Praying men must be strong in hope, and faith, and prayer.

— 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

The possibilities of prayer are found in its allying itself with the purposes of God, for God's purposes and man's praying are…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

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

God's cause is committed to men; God commits Himself to men. Praying men are the vice-regents of God; they do His work…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

A man can pray better because of the prayers of the past; a man can live holier because of the prayers of…

— 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

Men would pray better if they lived better. They would get more from God if they lived more obedient and well-pleasing to…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

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

— Edward McKendree Bounds

We are constantly straining to devise new methods, new plans, new organizations to advance the Church and secure enlargement and efficiency for…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

To say prayers in a decent, delicate way is not heavy work. But to pray really, to pray till hell feels the…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

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

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

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

Leaders in the realm of religious activity are to be judged by their praying habits and not by their money or social…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

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

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at God's footstool. Too…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

That man cannot possibly be called a Christian, who does not pray.

— 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

It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends, for none but…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

No man can do a great and enduring work for God who is not a man of prayer, and no man can…

— 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

Prayer in Jesus' name puts the crowning crown on God, because it glorifies Him through the Son and it pledges the Son…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Trouble and prayer are closely related. Trouble often drives men to God in prayer, while prayer is but the voice of men…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Prayer makes a godly man, and puts within him "the mind of Christ," the mind of humility, of self-surrender, of service, of…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

The sanctity of prayer is needed to impregnate business. We need the spirit of Sunday carried over to Monday and continued until…

— 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

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

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

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 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

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