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Praying Quotes by Edward McKendree Bounds

56 Praying quotes by Edward McKendree Bounds

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Bounds teaches that prayer must be urgent, not just repeated mindlessly, and that true power comes from sincere effort. He says prayer should shape how we live, giving us humility and a mind of Christ. He warns that shallow or ineffective prayer is a farce that fails to change character.

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Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.

Edward McKendree Bounds

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Non-praying is lawlessness, discord, anarchy.

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He who would pray, must obey.

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The conditions of praying are the conditions of righteousness, holiness, and salvation.

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A severe apprenticeship in the trade of praying must be served in order to become a journeyman in it.

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We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours of rigorous study.

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The lazy man does not, will not, cannot pray, for prayer demands energy.

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Public prayers are of little worth unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying.

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Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.

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The world needs more true praying to save it from the reign and ruin of Satan.

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He only can truly pray who is all aglow for holiness, for God, and for heaven.

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Prayer concerns God, whose purposes and plans are conditioned on prayer. His will and His glory are bound up in praying.

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No insistence in the Scripture is more pressing than that we must pray...How clear it is, when the Bible is consulted, that…

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The possibilities of prayer are found in its allying itself with the purposes of God, for God's purposes and man's praying are…

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It is true that Bible prayers in word and print are short, but the praying men of the Bible were with God…

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No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.

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We can never expect to grow in the likeness of our Lord unless we follow His example and give more time to…

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God's cause is committed to men; God commits Himself to men. Praying men are the vice-regents of God; they do His work…

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A man can pray better because of the prayers of the past; a man can live holier because of the prayers of…

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True praying has the largest results for good; and poor praying, the least. We cannot do too much of real praying; we…

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Praying gives sense, brings wisdom, broadens and strengthens the mind. The closet is a perfect school-teacher and schoolhouse for the preacher. Thought…

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To say prayers in a decent, delicate way is not heavy work. But to pray really, to pray till hell feels the…

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I think Christians fail so often to get answers to their prayers because they do not wait long enough on God. They…

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Praying that does not result in right thinking and right living is a farce. We have missed the whole office of prayer…

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Prayer is the one prime, eternal condition by which the Father is pledged to put the Son in possession of the world.…

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Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat,…

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Leaders in the realm of religious activity are to be judged by their praying habits and not by their money or social…

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Our praying, to be strong, must be buttressed by holy living. The life of faith perfects the prayer of faith.

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The first and last stages of holy living are crowned with praying.

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The character of our praying will determine the character of our preaching. Light praying makes light preaching.

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Importunate praying is the earnest inward movement of the heart toward God.

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The stream of praying cannot rise higher than the fountain of living.

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Praying men must be strong in hope, and faith, and prayer.

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That man cannot possibly be called a Christian, who does not pray.

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It is hard to wait and press and pray, and hear no voice, but stay till God answers.

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He who is too busy to pray will be too busy to live a holy life. Satan had rather we let the…

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Men would pray better if they lived better. They would get more from God if they lived more obedient and well-pleasing to…

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There is power through prayer. For many Christians, prayer is nothing special, just something we're supposed to do - go to church,…

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If we would have God in the closet, God must have us out of the closet. There is no way of praying…

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Our praying, however, needs to be pressed and pursued with an energy that never tires, a persistency which will not be denied,…

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They are not leaders because of brilliancy. ...but because, by the power of prayer, they could command the power of God.

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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.…

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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.

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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…

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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…

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Prayer, like faith, obtains promises, enlarges their operation, and adds to the measure of their results.

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