Abiding Quote by Edward McKendree Bounds

Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat, not to…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

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

— 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

They are not leaders because of brilliancy. ...but because, by the power of prayer, they could command the power of God.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

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

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