Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Heavenly citizenship and heavenly homesickness are in prayer. Prayer is an appeal from the lowness, from the emptiness, from the need of… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Our praying, however, needs to be pressed and pursued with an energy that never tires, a persistency which will not be denied,… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
I feel it is far better to begin with God, to see His face first, to get my soul near Him before… — 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
Walking with God down the avenue of prayer we acquire something of His likeness, and unconsciously we become witnesses to others of… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Nothing is more important to God than prayer in dealing with mankind. But it is likewise all-important to man to pray. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
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 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
A life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life. — 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
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 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
The prayers of God's saints strengthen the unborn generation against the desolating waves of sin and evil. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
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 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
The stream of praying cannot rise higher than the fountain of living. — 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
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
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
God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier… — 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
True praying has the largest results for good; and poor praying, the least. We cannot do too much of real praying; we… — 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
