Edward McKendree Bounds Quotes

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• I think Christians fail so often to get answers to their prayers because they do not wait long enough on God. They just drop down and say a few words, and then jump up and forget it and expect God to answer them. Such praying always reminds me of the small boy ringing his neighbor's door-bell, and then running away as fast as he can go.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  God, Christian, Running

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.26, CCEL

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• Prayer is our most formidable weapon, the thing which makes all else we do efficient.

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  Prayer, Weapons, Formidable

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• Only God can move mountains, but faith and prayer can move God

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  Christian, Prayer, Moving

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• What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men, men of prayer.

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  Prayer, Men, Organization

  Edward McKendree Bounds (2015). “Power Through Prayer”, p.5, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Four things let us ever keep in mind: God hears prayer, God heeds prayer, God answers prayer, and God delivers by prayer.

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  Prayer, Mind, Answers

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1977). “Prayer and Praying Men”, Baker Publishing Group (MI)

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• Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.

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  God, Christian, Prayer

  Edward McKendree Bounds, Lyle W. Dorsett (1991). “E.M. Bounds: Man of Prayer”, Zondervan Publishing Company

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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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  Prayer, Path, Praying

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.69, CCEL

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• Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still.

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  Prayer, Men, Talking

  Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

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• All God's plans have the mark of the cross on them, and all His plans have death to self in them.

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  Self, Christ On The Cross, God's Plan

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1922). “Satan: His Personality, Power and Overthrow”

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• If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day.

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  Morning, Prayer, Effort

  Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

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• We can never expect to grow in the likeness of our Lord unless we follow His example and give more time to communion with the Father. A revival of real praying would produce a spiritual revolution.

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  Spiritual, Father, Real

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.61, CCEL

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• No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.

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  Prayer, Missionary, Study

  Edward McKendree Bounds (2015). “Power Through Prayer”, p.18, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees.

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  Prayer, Men, Done

  Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

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• Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet.

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  Prayer, Classroom, Revival

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• Trust perfected is prayer perfected. Trust looks to receive the thing asked for and gets it. Trust is not a belief that God can bless or that He will bless, but that He does bless, here and now. Trust always operates in the present tense. Hope looks toward the future. Trust looks to the present. Hope expects. Trust possesses. Trust receives what prayer acquires. So, what prayer needs, at all times, is abiding and abundant trust.

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  Prayer, Doe, Needs

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• God is waiting to be put to the test by His people in prayer. He delights in being put to the test on His promises. It is His highest pleasure to answer prayer, to prove the reliability of His promises.

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  Prayer, People, Waiting

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• Prayer is far-reaching in its influence and worldwide in its effects. It affects all men, affects them everywhere, and affects them in all things. It touches man's interest in time and eternity. It lays hold upon God and moves Him to interfere in the affairs of earth. It moves the angels to minister to men in this life. It restrains and defeats the devil in his schemes to ruin man. Prayer goes everywhere and lays its hand upon everything.

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  Prayer, Moving, Angel

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• Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been held.

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  Prayer, Saint, Bars

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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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  Prayer, Men, Giving

  Edward McKendree Bounds (2015). “Power Through Prayer”, p.32, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• We cannot talk to God strongly when we have not lived for God strongly. The closet cannot be made holy to God when the life has not been holy to God.

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  Prayer, Holy, Made

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.75, CCEL

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• The word of God is the food by which prayer is nourished and made strong.

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  Strong, Prayer, Made

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1976). “The necessity of prayer”, Baker Pub Group

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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, Heart, Important

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• To say prayers in a decent, delicate way is not heavy work. But to pray really, to pray till hell feels the ponderous stroke, to pray till the iron gates of difficulty are opened, till the mountains of obstacles are removed, till the mists are exhaled and the clouds are lifted, and the sunshine of a cloudless day brightens-this is hard work, but it is God's work, and man's best labor.

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  Prayer, Hard Work, Sunshine

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.63, CCEL

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• The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees. He who fritters away the early morning, its opportunity and freshness, in other pursuits than seeking God will make poor headway seeking Him the rest of the day. If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Morning, Prayer, Men

  Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

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• The goal of prayer is the ear of God, a goal that can only be reached by patient and continued and continuous waiting upon Him, pouring out our heart to Him and permitting Him to speak to us. Only by so doing can we expect to know Him, and as we come to know Him better we shall spend more time in His presence and find that presence a constant and ever-increasing delight.

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  Prayer, Heart, Goal

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.43, CCEL

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