"We can never know God as it is……" — Edward McKendree Bounds
"We can never know God as it is our privilege to know Him by brief repetitions that are requests for personal favors, and nothing more."
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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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