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Prayers Quotes by Edward McKendree Bounds
- 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,…
- God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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 get…
- I think Christians fail so often to get answers to their prayers because they do not wait long enough on God. They just drop down…
- God's willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children, just as far as God's ability, goodness…
- God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. The lips that uttered them may be closed to death, the heart that felt them may…
- 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…
- The prayers of God's saints strengthen the unborn generation against the desolating waves of sin and evil.
- Public prayers are of little worth unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying.
- It is true that Bible prayers in word and print are short, but the praying men of the Bible were with God through many a…
- God shapes the world by prayer. The prayers of God's saints are the capitol stock of heaven by which God carries on His great work…
- Pray for 'all men.' We usually pray more for things than we do for men. Our prayers should be thrown across their pathway as they…
More Prayers Quotes
- The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of… — Saint Augustine
- There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers. — Teresa of Avila
- Not a lot of individuals get to refer to the Lord in their prayers as 'Dude', but he's doing a new thing… — Stephen Baldwin
- It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray. — Aesop
- Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. — Garth Brooks
- Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the… — Geraldine Brooks
- God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Every day I wake up and I lay in bed counting my blessings and saying my prayers for how fortunate I am… — Luke Bryan
- To go to the synagogue with one's father on the Passover eve - is there in the world a greater pleasure than… — Sholom Aleichem
- The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems. Patients do… — Benjamin Carson
- There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous, urgent, ardent.… — Edward McKendree Bounds
- Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings... The books are also a part… — Aberjhani