Edward McKendree Bounds Quotes about Prayer - Page 4

The central significance of prayer is not in the things that happen as results, but in the deepening intimacy and unhurried communion with God at His central throne of control in order to discover a sense of God's need in order to call on God's help to meet that need.

Heavenly citizenship and heavenly homesickness are in prayer. Prayer is an appeal from the lowness, from the emptiness, from the need of earth, to the highness, the fullness and to the all-sufficiency of heaven.

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.

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.

Prayer puts God's work in his hands-and keeps it there.

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.

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

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

Non-praying is lawlessness, discord, anarchy.

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.

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