Edward McKendree Bounds Quotes

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• There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous, urgent, ardent. Flamed desires, impassioned,… All
• The word of God is the food by which prayer is nourished and made strong. Food
• Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet. Classroom
• Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still. God
• if the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion. Believe
• God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces of… Better
• No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack. Diligence
• Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been held. All
• We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles, overcomes every resisting force and… All
• Faith, and hope, and patience and all the strong, beautiful, vital forces of piety are withered and dead in a prayerless life. The life of… All
• God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them. Deathless
• By prayer, the ability is secured to feel the law of love, to speak according to the law of love, and to do everything in… Ability
• Prayer is of transcendent importance. Prayer is the mightiest agent to advance God's work. Praying hearts and hands only can do God's work. Prayer succeeds… Advance
• The goal of prayer is the ear of God, a goal that can only be reached by patient and continued and continuous waiting upon Him,… Better
• Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid. Acknowledge
• Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care, much thought, practice and labour are… All
• Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer; but a capacity for faith, the power of a thorough… Ability
• Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. "Choked to death" would be the coroner's verdict in many cases of dead praying if… Absorbing
• I feel it is far better to begin with God, to see His face first, to get my soul near Him before it is near… Alone
• Trouble and prayer are closely related. Trouble often drives men to God in prayer, while prayer is but the voice of men in trouble. Closely

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