Edward McKendree Bounds Quotes
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It is not great talents or great learning or great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God...
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The reformer is one who with clarion voice will call the ministry back to it's knees.
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Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.
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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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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.
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Preaching is not the performance of an hour. It is the outflow of a life. It takes twenty years to make a sermon because it takes twenty years to make the man. The true sermon is a thing of life. The sermon grows because the man grows.
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He who is too busy to pray will be too busy to live a holy life. Satan had rather we let the grass grow on the path to our prayer chamber than anything else.
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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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Prayer-leadership preserves the spirituality of the Church, just as prayerless leaders make for unspiritual conditions.
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True praying has the largest results for good. Poor praying the least. We cannot do too much of real praying. We cannot do too little of the sham. If we would learn the wondrous power of prayer, we must not give a fragment here and there - A little talk with Jesus, as the tiny saintlets sing - but we must demand and hold with an iron grasp the best hours of the day for God and prayer, or there will be no praying worth the name.
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It is hard to wait and press and pray, and hear no voice, but stay till God answers.
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The little estimate we put on prayer is evidence from the little time we give to it.
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Leaders in the realm of religious activity are to be judged by their praying habits and not by their money or social position. Those who must be placed in the forefront of the Church's business must be, first of all, men who know how to pray.
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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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The houses of Heaven are God-built and are as enduring and incorruptible as their builder. We will have bodies after the resurrection; transfigured they will be after the model of Christs glorious body.
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Importunate praying is the earnest inward movement of the heart toward God.
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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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Men would pray better if they lived better. They would get more from God if they lived more obedient and well-pleasing to God.
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In the Bible, we have the facts and history of man's redemption. Incidentally or essentially, other worlds and other beings are brought prominently on the stage of redemption purposes and plans.
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Prayer is of transcendent importance. Prayer is the mightiest agent to advance God's work. Praying hearts and hands only can do God's work. Prayer succeeds when all else fails.
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Trust is faith that has become absolute, approved, and accomplished. When all is said and done, there is a sort of risk in faith and its exercise. But trust is firm belief; it is faith in full bloom. Trust is a conscious act, a fact of which we are aware.
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That man cannot possibly be called a Christian, who does not pray.
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Praying gives sense, brings wisdom, and broadens and strengthens the mind. The prayer closet is a perfect schoolteacher and schoolhouse for the preacher. Thought is not only brightened and clarified in prayer, but thought is born in prayer.
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God's cause is committed to men; God commits Himself to men. Praying men are the vice-regents of God; they do His work and carry out His plans.