Edward McKendree Bounds

We can do nothing without prayer.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

God shapes the world by prayer.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Holy living is essential preparation for prayer.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

He who would pray, must obey.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Prayer thrives in the atmosphere of true devotion.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Bread for today is bread enough.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Non-praying is lawlessness, discord, anarchy.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

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

— Edward McKendree Bounds

We must lose all for Christ in order to gain all for Christ.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

The pride of learning is against the dependent humility of prayer.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

The word of God is the food by which prayer is nourished and made strong.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

When trust is perfect and there is no doubt, prayer is simply the outstretched hand ready to receive.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Men who pray are, in reality, the only religious men, and it takes a full-measured man to pray.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Faith can make no appeal to reason or the fitness of things; its appeal is to the Word of God, and whatever…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

The character as well as the fortunes of the gospel is committed to the preacher. He makes or mars the message from…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Walking with God down the avenue of prayer we acquire something of His likeness, and unconsciously we become witnesses to others of…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Prayer is the highest intelligence, the profoundest wisdom, the most vital, the most joyous, the most efficacious, the most powerful of all…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

In all God's plans for human redemption, He proposes that men pray. The men are to pray in every place, in the…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

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

The sanctity of prayer is needed to impregnate business. We need the spirit of Sunday carried over to Monday and continued until…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

The men who have most fully illustrated Christ in their character and have most powerfully affected the world for Him have been…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

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

Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at God's footstool. Too…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. The lips that uttered them may be closed to death, the heart that…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer; but a capacity for faith, the power…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

The most casual reader of the New Testament can scarcely fail to see the commanding position the resurrection of Christ holds in…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

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

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

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

Thoughts of heaven quicken our faith. Our only sure and solid foundation is the hope of heaven. The only solution to earth's…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Enthusiasm is more active than faith, though enthusiasm cannot remove mountains nor call into action any of the omnipotent forces which faith…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Prayer puts God's work in his hands-and keeps it there.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Private place and plenty of time are the life of prayer.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Prayer succeeds when all else fails

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

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

— Edward McKendree Bounds

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

— Edward McKendree Bounds