The character of our praying will determine the character of our preaching. Light praying makes light preaching. — 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
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
Prayer, like faith, obtains promises, enlarges their operation, and adds to the measure of their results. — 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
While the pulpit must hold to its unswerving loyalty to the Word of God, it must, at the same time, be loyal… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
We may excuse the spiritual poverty of our preaching in many ways, but the true secret will be found in the lack… — 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
We can never know God as it is our privilege to know Him by brief repetitions that are requests for personal favors,… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles, overcomes every… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. That is the teaching of Jesus Christ — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Prayer should not be regarded as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege to be enjoyed, a rare… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian graces have their being, bloom and fruitage in prayer. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Trust perfected is prayer perfected. Trust looks to receive the thing asked for and gets it. Trust is not a belief that… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Prayer must be broad in its scope - it must plead for others. Intercession for others is the hallmark of all true… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
I think Christians fail so often to get answers to their prayers because they do not wait long enough on God. They… — 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
Praying that does not result in right thinking and right living is a farce. We have missed the whole office of prayer… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Prayer is the one prime, eternal condition by which the Father is pledged to put the Son in possession of the world.… — 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,… — 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
The stream of praying cannot rise higher than the fountain of living. — 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
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 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
Praying men must be strong in hope, and faith, and prayer. — 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
When trust is perfect and there is no doubt, prayer is simply the outstretched hand ready to receive. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The pride of learning is against the dependent humility of prayer. — 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
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
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
