"A life growing in its purity and devotion……" — Edward McKendree Bounds
"A life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life."
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Edward McKendree Bounds
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130 Quotes by Edward McKendree Bounds
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There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous,…
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The word of God is the food by which prayer is nourished and made strong.
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Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet.
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Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still.
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if the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his…
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God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world the better the world will be,…
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No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply…
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Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been…
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We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles,…
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Faith, and hope, and patience and all the strong, beautiful, vital forces of piety are withered and dead in a…
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God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.
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By prayer, the ability is secured to feel the law of love, to speak according to the law of love,…
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More Devotion Quotes
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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from…
— Aristotle
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Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I…
— Teresa of Avila
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The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
— Honore de Balzac
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What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community…
— Mitch Albom
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We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding…
— Adam Clarke
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What is important is not victory or the position of a victor, but rather the labor of striving towards God…
— John of Shanghai and San Francisco
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Suffer me never to think that I have knowledge enough to need no teaching, wisdom enough to need no correction,…
— Eric Milner-White
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Increase and widen your desires till nothing but reality can fulfill them. It is not desire that is wrong, but…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It was this same Jesus, the Christ who, among many other remarkable things, said and repeated something which, proceeding from…
— Wilbur Smith
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If one will fix his heart in such a way and assist the world and its people, he will have…
— Hojo Shigetoki
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