Edward McKendree Bounds Quotes - Page 5

The pride of learning is against the dependent humility of prayer.

Praying which does not result in pure conduct is a delusion. We have missed the whole office and virtue of praying if it does not rectify conduct. It is in the very nature of things that we must quit praying, or quit bad conduct.

God requires to be represented by a fiery Church... two things are intolerable to Him-insincerity and lukewarmness.

Prayer, in one phase of its operation, is a disinfectant and a preventive. It purifies the air; it destroys the contagion of evil.

The greatest value in trouble comes to those who bow lowest before the throne.

The prayers of God's saints strengthen the unborn generation against the desolating waves of sin and evil.

Bible revelations are not against reason but above reason, for the uses of faith, mans highest faculty.

God's Word does not say, "Call unto me, and you will thereby be trained into the happy art of knowing how to be denied. Ask, and you will learn sweet patience by getting nothing." Far from it. But it is definite, clear and positive: "Ask, and it shall be given unto you."

Non-praying is lawlessness, discord, anarchy.

Crucified preaching only can give life. Crucified preaching can come only from a crucified man.

Praying men are God's agents on earth, the representative of government of Heaven, set to a specific task on the earth.

Faith does the impossible because it brings God to undertake for us, and nothing is impossible with God.

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.

Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer.

Praying men must be strong in hope, and faith, and prayer.

There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous, urgent, ardent. Flamed desires, impassioned, unwearied insistence delight heaven. God would have His children incorrigibly in earnest and persistently bold in their efforts. Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls. Our whole being must be in our praying.

By prayer, the ability is secured to feel the law of love, to speak according to the law of love, and to do everything in harmony with the law of love.

The only limits to prayer are the promises of God and His ability to fulfill those promises.

Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.

It is true that Bible prayers in word and print are short, but the praying men of the Bible were with God through many a sweet and holy wrestling hour. They won by few words but long waiting.

In doing God's work, there is no substitute for praying. The men of prayer cannot be displaced with other kinds of men.

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.

To give prayer the secondary place is to make God seconday in life's affairs.

. . . every preacher who does not make prayer a mighty factor in his own life and ministry is weak as a factor in God's work and is powerless to project God's cause in this world.

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.