"Prayer should not be regarded as a duty……" — Edward McKendree Bounds
"Prayer should not be regarded as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege to be enjoyed, a rare delight that is always revealing some new beauty."
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130 Quotes by Edward McKendree Bounds
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- The word of God is the food by which prayer is nourished and made strong.
- Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet.
- Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still.
- if the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his…
- God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world the better the world will be,…
- No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply…
- 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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- Faith, and hope, and patience and all the strong, beautiful, vital forces of piety are withered and dead in a…
- God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.
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