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Man Quotes by Edward McKendree Bounds
- It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends, for none but the earnest man…
- To say prayers in a decent, delicate way is not heavy work. But to pray really, to pray till hell feels the ponderous stroke, to…
- The possibilities of prayer are found in its allying itself with the purposes of God, for God's purposes and man's praying are the combination of…
- That man is the most immortal who has done the most and the best praying. They are God heroes, God's saints, God's servants, God's vicegerents.
- A man can pray better because of the prayers of the past; a man can live holier because of the prayers of the past; the…
- Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need.
- That man cannot possibly be called a Christian, who does not pray.
- The lazy man does not, will not, cannot pray, for prayer demands energy.
- The character as well as the fortunes of the gospel is committed to the preacher. He makes or mars the message from God to man.…
- Preaching is not the performance of an hour. It is the outflow of a life. It takes twenty years to make a sermon because it…
- When we say that prayer puts God to work, it is simply to say that man has it in his power by prayer to move…
- Nothing is more important to God than prayer in dealing with mankind. But it is likewise all-important to man to pray.
- Men who pray are, in reality, the only religious men, and it takes a full-measured man to pray.
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