Demand Quote by Edward McKendree Bounds Download Open image “The lazy man does not, will not, cannot pray, for prayer demands energy.” — Edward McKendree Bounds ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Demand Doe Energy Lazy Lazy man Men Prayer Praying
Prayer is hard work. We may neglect it because we're too tired, too busy, or too distracted to put into prayer the effort required. — Anne Graham Lotz Copy Share Image
Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
We hear it said that a man will suffer in his life is he does not pray; I question it. What will suffer is… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable; praying, that is, with the total concentration of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
A man who prays without ceasing, if he achieves something, knows why he achieved it, and can take no pride in it... for he… — Dorotheus of Gaza Copy Share Image
There is power in prayer. When men work, they work. but when men pray, God works. — Angus Buchan Copy Share Image
It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
I have seen many men work without praying, though I have never seen any good come out of it; but I have never seen… — Hudson Taylor Copy Share Image
Prayer is God's answer to our poverty, not a power we exercise to obtain an answer. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
No man can do a great and enduring work for God who is not a man of prayer, and no man can be a… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The pride of learning is against the dependent humility of prayer. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Men who pray are, in reality, the only religious men, and it takes a full-measured man to pray. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
They are not leaders because of brilliancy. ...but because, by the power of prayer, they could command the power of God. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Parents who are stressed or disturbed will have more difficulty in meeting their children's needs. Parents who have little support--from friends, relatives, neighbors, or… — Sheila Kamerman Copy Share Image
If a person does not listen to the demands of their own spiritual and heart life and insists on a certain program, you're going… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction. — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
My dogs can't do anything--and what a relief. I don't make any demands of them, and I don't try to shape them or their… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
The trouble is. . .that everybody sneers at restrictions and demands freedom, till something annoying happens; then they demand angrily what has become of… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
You be greater than your feelings. I don't demand this of you - life does. Otherwise you'll be washed away by feelings. You'll be… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
It is an interesting law of romance that a truly strong woman will choose a strong man who disagrees with her over a weak… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
If our faith in God is not the veriest sham, it demands, and will produce, the abandonment sometimes, the subordination always, of external helps… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
There was no mistake in us making abortion legal and available on demand. That was what we call progress. Just like it was no… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
