Edward McKendree Bounds Quotes
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Prayer puts God's work in his hands-and keeps it there.
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Prayer is the greatest of all forces, because it honors God and brings him into active aid.
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Men who pray are, in reality, the only religious men, and it takes a full-measured man to pray.
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The conditions of praying are the conditions of righteousness, holiness, and salvation.
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Pray for 'all men.' We usually pray more for things than we do for men. Our prayers should be thrown across their pathway as they rush in their downward course to a lost eternity.
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We cannot talk to God strongly when we have not lived for God strongly. The closet cannot be made holy to God when the life has not been holy to God.
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Prayer and a holy life are one. They mutually act and react. Neither can survive alone. The absence of the one is the absence of the other.
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The character of our praying will determine the character of our preaching. Light praying makes light preaching.
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The stream of praying cannot rise higher than the fountain of living.
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Men of prayer, before anything else, are indispensable to the furtherance of the kingdom of God on earth. No other sort will fit in the scheme or do the deed. Men, great and influential in other things but small in prayer, cannot do the work Almighty God has set out for His Church to do in this, His world.
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Prayer is God's plan to supply man's great and continuous need with God's great and continuous abundance.
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Prayer is the lungs through which holiness breathes. Prayer is not only the language of spiritual life, but also makes its very essence and forms its real character. O for a faith that will not shrink though pressed by every foe; That will not tremble on the brink of any earthly woe. Lord, give us such a faith as this... whatever may come...
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Private place and plenty of time are the life of prayer.
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The Bible nowhere enters into an argument to prove the person and being of God. It assumes His being and reveals His person and character.
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Prayer is our most formidable weapon, the thing which makes all else we do efficient.
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Non-praying is lawlessness, discord, anarchy.
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The glorified will not be pilgrims, transient visitors, or tenants at will, but settled, permanent, walled, established by title, through eternity by warrantee deed, signed, sealed, recorded, possession given. No renters, no lessees of Heaven, but all property and home owners.
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Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care, much thought, practice and labour are required to be a skillful tradesman in praying. Practice in this, as well as in all other trades, makes perfect.
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Hope looks toward the future. Trust looks to the present. Hope expects. Trust possesses...what prayer needs, at all times, is abiding and abundant trust.
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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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Praying men must be strong in hope, and faith, and prayer.
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The Scriptures bear ample and continuous evidence that the faith of the resurrection of the body lies in the faith that Jesus Christ died and rose again.
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Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet.
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While the pulpit must hold to its unswerving loyalty to the Word of God, it must, at the same time, be loyal to the doctrine of prayer which that same Word illustrates and enforces upon mankind.