Edward McKendree Bounds Quotes
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We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. That is the teaching of Jesus Christ.
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That man cannot possibly be called a Christian, who does not pray.
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Holy living is essential preparation for prayer.
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Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need.
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The most important lesson we can learn is how to pray. Prayers do not die, prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them.
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Prayer makes a godly man, and puts within him "the mind of Christ," the mind of humility, of self-surrender, of service, of pity, and of prayer. If we really pray, we will become more like God, or else we will quit praying.
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Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls.
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Love is kindled in a flame, and ardency is its life. Flame is the air which true Christian experience breathes. It feeds on fire; it can withstand anything rather than a feeble flame; but when the surrounding atmosphere is frigid or lukewarm, it dies, chilled and starved to its vitals. True prayer must be aflame.
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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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We must lose all for Christ in order to gain all for Christ.
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The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian graces have their being, bloom and fruitage in prayer.
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The ministry of prayer, if it be anything worthy of the name, is a ministry of ardor, a ministry of unwearied and intense longing after God and after his holiness.
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No man can do a great and enduring work for God who is not a man of prayer, and no man can be a man of prayer who does not give much time to praying.
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When we say that prayer puts God to work, it is simply to say that man has it in his power by prayer to move God to work in His own way among men, in which way He would not work if prayer was not made.
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Nothing is more important to God than prayer in dealing with mankind. But it is likewise all-important to man to pray.
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The soul which has come into intimate contact with God in the silence of the prayer chamber is never out of conscious touch with the Father; the heart is always going out to Him in loving communion, and the moment the mind is released from the task upon which it is engaged, it returns as naturally to God as the bird does to its nest.
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Prayer is the highest intelligence, the profoundest wisdom, the most vital, the most joyous, the most efficacious, the most powerful of all vocations.
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Safety is in Heaven. Put your values there only; put your heart there. No tears are there to flood your heart, no sorrows there to break it, no losses there to grieve and embitter.
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The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.
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Bible revelations are not against reason but above reason, for the uses of faith, mans highest faculty.
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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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Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.
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Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still. He will never talk well and with real success to men for God who has not learned well how to talk to God for men.
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Faith does the impossible because it brings God to undertake for us, and nothing is impossible with God.