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
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
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
Prayer concerns God, whose purposes and plans are conditioned on prayer. His will and His glory are bound up in praying. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
We regard prayer no longer as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege which is to be enjoyed,… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
No insistence in the Scripture is more pressing than that we must pray...How clear it is, when the Bible is consulted, that… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been held. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
We can never expect to grow in the likeness of our Lord unless we follow His example and give more time to… — 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
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
Praying gives sense, brings wisdom, broadens and strengthens the mind. The closet is a perfect school-teacher and schoolhouse for the preacher. Thought… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The central significance of prayer is not in the things that happen as results, but in the deepening intimacy and unhurried communion… — 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 soul which has come into intimate contact with God in the silence of the prayer chamber is never out of conscious… — 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
Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion. — 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
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
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
The pride of learning is against the dependent humility of prayer. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share
Men who pray are, in reality, the only religious men, and it takes a full-measured man to pray. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at God's footstool. Too often we… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share
Prayer makes a godly man, and puts within him "the mind of Christ," the mind of humility, of self-surrender, of service, of pity, and… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share
Prayer, like faith, obtains promises, enlarges their operation, and adds to the measure of their results. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share
