Prayer, like faith, obtains promises, enlarges their operation, and adds to the measure of their results. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
It is hard to wait and press and pray, and hear no voice, but stay till God answers. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
That man cannot possibly be called a Christian, who does not pray. — 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
Praying men must be strong in hope, and faith, and prayer. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
When trust is perfect and there is no doubt, prayer is simply the outstretched hand ready to receive. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Prayer is of transcendent importance. Prayer is the mightiest agent to advance God's work. Praying hearts and hands only can do God's… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Sainthood's piety is made, refined, perfected, by prayer. The gospel moves with slow and timid pace when the saints are not at… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
if the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
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 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
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 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
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 Copy Share Image
God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. The lips that uttered them may be closed to death, the heart that… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care, much thought, practice… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer; but a capacity for faith, the power… — 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
The goal of prayer is the ear of God, a goal that can only be reached by patient and continued and continuous… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The word of God is the food by which prayer is nourished and made strong. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The pride of learning is against the dependent humility of prayer. — 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
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
We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours of rigorous study. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The lazy man does not, will not, cannot pray, for prayer demands energy. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Public prayers are of little worth unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The only limits to prayer are the promises of God and His ability to fulfill those promises. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Prayer is our most formidable weapon, the thing which makes all else we do efficient. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The conditions of praying are the conditions of righteousness, holiness, and salvation. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Every mighty move of the Spirit of God has had its source in the prayer chamber. — 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
The first and last stages of holy living are crowned with praying. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion. — 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
