A severe apprenticeship in the trade of praying must be served in order to become a journeyman in it. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Praying men are God's agents on earth, the representative of government of Heaven, set to a specific task on the earth. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The first and last stages of holy living are crowned with praying. — 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
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
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
We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours of rigorous study. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
Leaders in the realm of religious activity are to be judged by their praying habits and not by their money or social… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
He only can truly pray who is all aglow for holiness, for God, and for heaven. — 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
In doing God's work, there is no substitute for praying. The men of prayer cannot be displaced with other kinds of men. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
That man cannot possibly be called a Christian, who does not pray. — 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
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
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
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
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
