Man's 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
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
By prayer, the ability is secured to feel the law of love, to speak according to the law of love, and to… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Prayer lays hold upon God and influences Him to work. This is the meaning of prayer as it concerns God. This is… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
God's cause is committed to men; God commits Himself to men. Praying men are the vice-regents of God; they do His work… — 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
God is waiting to be put to the test by His people in prayer. He delights in being put to the test… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
He who is too busy to pray will be too busy to live a holy life. Satan had rather we let the… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
Men would pray better if they lived better. They would get more from God if they lived more obedient and well-pleasing to… — 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… — 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,… — 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
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
Prayer, in one phase of its operation, is a disinfectant and a preventive. It purifies the air; it destroys the contagion of… — 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… — 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… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
God's willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children, just as far as… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Hope looks toward the future. Trust looks to the present. Hope expects. Trust possesses...what prayer needs, at all times, is abiding and… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
If prayer puts God to work on earth, then, by the same token, prayerlessness rules God out of the world's affairs and… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
God shapes the world by prayer. The prayers of God's saints are the capitol stock of heaven by which God carries on… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Woe to the generation of sons who find their censers empty of the rich incense of prayer, whose fathers have been too… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
