We may excuse the spiritual poverty of our preaching in many ways, but the true secret will be found in the lack of urgent prayer for God's presence in the power of the Holy Spirit. — 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 count the times, but to gain the prayer. We cannot quit praying because heart and soul are in it. We pray "with all perseverance." We hang to our prayers because by them we live. We press… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share
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
