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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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• 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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  Christian, Prayer, Powerful

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1924). “The Reality of Prayer”, p.14, CCEL

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• When trust is perfect and there is no doubt, prayer is simply the outstretched hand ready to receive.

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  Prayer, Hands, Perfect

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• We are constantly straining to devise new methods, new plans, new organizations to advance the Church and secure enlargement and efficiency for the gospel. This trend of the day has a tendency to lose sight of the man or sink the man in the plan or organization. God's plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God's method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.

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  Men, Sight, Organization

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

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

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  Prayer, Men, Needs

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• I feel it is far better to begin with God, to see His face first, to get my soul near Him before it is near another. In general it is best to have at least one hour alone with God before engaging in anything else.

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  God, Christian, Religious

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”

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• A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet.

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  Prayer, Doe, Holy

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.32, CCEL

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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, Father, Heart

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

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• It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends, for none but the earnest man gets access to the ear of God.

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  Prayer, Passion, Heart

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.12, CCEL

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• Paul, Luther, Wesley —what would these chosen ones of God be without the distinguishing and controlling element of prayer? They were leaders for God because mighty in prayer. They were not leaders because of brilliancy in thought, because exhaustless in resources, because of their magnificent culture or native endowment, but leaders because by the power of prayer they could command the power of God.

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  Prayer, Leader, Power Of God

  "Purpose in Prayer".

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• Men would pray better if they lived better. They would get more from God if they lived more obedient and well-pleasing to God.

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  Prayer, Men, Praying

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”

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• Enthusiasm is more active than faith, though enthusiasm cannot remove mountains nor call into action any of the omnipotent forces which faith can command. Activity is often at the expense of more solid, useful elements, and generally to the total neglect of prayer. To be too busy with God's work to commune with God, to be busy with doing church work without taking time to talk to God about His work, is the highway to backsliding, and many people have walked therein to the hurt of their immortal souls.

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  Hurt, Prayer, People

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• Prayer is the greatest of all forces, because it honors God and brings him into active aid.

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  Prayer, Honor, Aids

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.30, CCEL

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• Praying gives sense, brings wisdom, broadens and strengthens the mind. The closet is a perfect school-teacher and schoolhouse for the preacher. Thought is not only brightened and clarified in prayer, but thought is born in prayer. We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours in the study.

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  Prayer, Giving, Perfect

  "Power Through 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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  Prayer, Names, Ministry

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• Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care, much thought, practice and labour are required to be a skillful tradesman in praying. Practice in this, as well as in all other trades, makes perfect.

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  Prayer, Practice, Perfect

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.31, CCEL

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

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  Christian, Doe, Impossible

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

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• Bread for today is bread enough.

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  Today, Bread, Enough

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1929). “The Necessity of Prayer”, p.14, Fig

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• Preachers are not sermon makers, but men makers and saint makers, and he only is well-trained for this business who has made himself a man and a saint. It is not great talents nor great learning nor great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God - men always preaching by holy sermons in the pulpit, by holy lives out of it. These can mold a generation for God.

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  Men, Mold, Saint

  Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

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• Thoughts of heaven quicken our faith. Our only sure and solid foundation is the hope of heaven. The only solution to earth's mysteries, the only righter of earth's wrongs, and the only cure for worldliness, is heaven. We need an infusion of heaven into our faith and hope that will create a homesickness for that blessed place. God's home is heaven. Eternal life and all good were born there and flourish there. All life, happiness, beauty, and glory are native to the home of God. All this belongs to and awaits the heirs of God in heaven. What a glorious inheritance!

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  Blessed, Home, Heaven

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• We regard prayer no longer as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege which is to be enjoyed, a rare delight that is always revealing some new beauty.

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  Prayer, Delight, Privilege

  "Purpose in Prayer".

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• Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat, not to count the times, but to gain the prayer. We cannot quit praying because heart and soul are in it. We pray "with all perseverance." We hang to our prayers because by them we live. We press our pleas because we must have them, or die.

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  Perseverance, Prayer, Heart

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.39, CCEL

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• The men who have most fully illustrated Christ in their character and have most powerfully affected the world for Him have been men who spend so much time with God as to make it a notable feature in their lives.

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  Character, Men, World

  Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

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• Pray for 'all men.' We usually pray more for things than we do for men. Our prayers should be thrown across their pathway as they rush in their downward course to a lost eternity.

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  Prayer, Men, Pathways

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• God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.

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  Prayer, World, Shapes

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.3, CCEL

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