Edward McKendree Bounds Quotes - Page 6

Prayer, like faith, obtains promises, enlarges their operation, and adds to the measure of their results.

Every mighty move of the Spirit of God has had its source in the prayer chamber.

The conditions of praying are the conditions of righteousness, holiness, and salvation.

The lazy man does not, will not, cannot pray, for prayer demands energy.

The world needs more true praying to save it from the reign and ruin of Satan.

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.

Mans access in prayer to God opens everything and makes his impoverishment his wealth. All things are his through prayer.

Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need.

Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.

He only can truly pray who is all aglow for holiness, for God, and for heaven.

The reformer is one who with clarion voice will call the ministry back to it's knees.

Prayer is no fitful, short-lived thing. It is no voice crying unheard and unheeded in the silence. It is a voice which goes into God's ear, and it lives as long as God's ear is open to holy pleas, as long as God's heart is alive to holy things.

A man can pray better because of the prayers of the past; a man can live holier because of the prayers of the past; the man of many and acceptable prayers has done the truest and greatest service to the incoming generation.

God shapes the world by prayer.

Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer; but a capacity for faith, the power of a thorough consecration, the ability of self-littleness, an absolute losing of one's self in God's glory and an ever present and insatiable yearning and seeking after all the fullness of God.

We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles, overcomes every resisting force and gains its ends in the face of invincible hindrances.

Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. "Choked to death" would be the coroner's verdict in many cases of dead praying if an inquest could be secured on this dire, spiritual calamity.

Prayer thrives in the atmosphere of true devotion.

Preaching is God's great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold. When wrongly executed, no evil can exceed its damaging results.

God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces of against evil

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.

You will find out that in the measure you have allowed yourself to look back you have missed that which God has for you.

In prayerful sympathy and love. Hold to the old truth -- double distilled.

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.

A severe apprenticeship in the trade of praying must be served in order to become a journeyman in it.