"Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element……" — Edward McKendree Bounds
"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 faint-hearted and quit praying at the point where we ought to begin. We let go at the very point where we should hold on strongest. Our prayers are weak because they are not impassioned by an unfailing and resistless will."
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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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