The stream of praying cannot rise higher than the fountain of living. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The prayers of God's saints strengthen the unborn generation against the desolating waves of sin and evil. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The story of every great Christian achievement is the history of answered prayer. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Prayer is the greatest of all forces, because it honors God and brings him into active aid. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Only God can move mountains, but faith and prayer can move God — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Four things let us ever keep in mind: God hears prayer, God heeds prayer, God answers prayer, and God delivers by prayer. — 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
The more praying there is in the world, the better the world will be, the mightier the forces against evil everywhere. — 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
The most important lesson we can learn is how to pray. Prayers do not die, prayers live before God, and God's heart… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Praying which does not result in pure conduct is a delusion. We have missed the whole office and virtue of praying if… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
No erudition, no purity of diction, no width of mental outlook, no flowers of eloquence, no grace of person can atone for… — 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
None but praying leaders can have praying followers. A praying pulpit will beget praying pews. We do greatly need pastors and evangelists… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous, urgent, ardent.… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Praying gives sense, brings wisdom, and broadens and strengthens the mind. The prayer closet is a perfect schoolteacher and schoolhouse for the… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Paul, Luther, Wesley —what would these chosen ones of God be without the distinguishing and controlling element of prayer? They were leaders… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
True praying has the largest results for good. Poor praying the least. We cannot do too much of real praying. We cannot… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is more active than faith, though enthusiasm cannot remove mountains nor call into action any of the omnipotent forces which faith… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Prayer is God's plan to supply man's great and continuous need with God's great and continuous abundance. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The character of our praying will determine the character of our preaching. Light praying makes light preaching. — 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
Importunate praying is the earnest inward movement of the heart toward God. — 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
