Edward McKendree Bounds Quotes
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Prayer, like faith, obtains promises, enlarges their operation, and adds to the measure of their results.
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Apostolic preaching cannot be carried on unless there be apostolic prayer.
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God shapes the world by prayer. The prayers of God's saints are the capitol stock of heaven by which God carries on His great work upon the earth.
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Only God can move mountains, but faith and prayer can move God.
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Apostolic preaching cannot be carried on unless there be apostolic prayer. Men of God, before anything else, are indispensable to the furtherance of the kingdom of God on earth.
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The prayers of God's saints strengthen the unborn generation against the desolating waves of sin and evil.
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The strong argument for Heaven as a place centers in and clusters about Jesus. The man Jesus, bearing a man's form, the body He wore on earth, has a place assigned Him - a high place.
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Importunate praying is the earnest inward movement of the heart toward God.
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God is waiting to be put to the test by His people in prayer. He delights in being put to the test on His promises. It is His highest pleasure to answer prayer, to prove the reliability of His promises.
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The word of God is the food by which prayer is nourished and made strong.
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Prayer thrives in the atmosphere of true devotion.
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The story of every great Christian achievement is the history of answered prayer.
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Enthusiasm is more active than faith, though enthusiasm cannot remove mountains nor call into action any of the omnipotent forces which faith can command. Activity is often at the expense of more solid, useful elements, and generally to the total neglect of prayer. To be too busy with God's work to commune with God, to be busy with doing church work without taking time to talk to God about His work, is the highway to backsliding, and many people have walked therein to the hurt of their immortal souls.
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It must never be forgotten that Almighty God rules this world. He is not an absentee God.
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It is necessary to iterate and reiterate that prayer, as a mere habit, as a performance gone through by routine or in a professional way, is a dead and rotten thing.
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Prayer in Jesus' name puts the crowning crown on God, because it glorifies Him through the Son and it pledges the Son to give to men 'whatsoever and anything' they shall ask.
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Man's access in prayer to God opens everything and makes his impoverishment his wealth. All things are his through prayer.
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When trust is perfect and there is no doubt, prayer is simply the outstretched hand ready to receive.
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If the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion.
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To give prayer the secondary place is to make God seconday in life's affairs.
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Prayer-leadership preserves the spirituality of the Church, just as prayerless leaders make for unspiritual conditions.
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Our praying, to be strong, must be buttressed by holy living. The life of faith perfects the prayer of faith.
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The character as well as the fortunes of the gospel is committed to the preacher. He makes or mars the message from God to man. The preacher is the golden pipe through which the divine oil flows.
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The little estimate we put on prayer is evidence from the little time we give to it.