Four things let us ever keep in mind: God hears prayer, God heeds prayer, God answers prayer, and God delivers by prayer. Edward McKendree Bounds More Quotes by Edward McKendree Bounds More Quotes From Edward McKendree Bounds Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct. Edward McKendree Bounds born praying prayer No erudition, no purity of diction, no width of mental outlook, no flowers of eloquence, no grace of person can atone for lack of fire. Prayer ascends by fire. Flame gives prayer access as well as wings, acceptance as well as energy. There is no incense without fire; no prayer without flame. Edward McKendree Bounds flower acceptance prayer Prayer is the one prime, eternal condition by which the Father is pledged to put the Son in possession of the world. Christ prays through His people. Had there been importunate, universal, and continuous prayer by God's people, long ere this the earth had been possessed for Christ. Edward McKendree Bounds prayer father son 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. Edward McKendree Bounds encouragement prayer children The pride of learning is against the dependent humility of prayer. Edward McKendree Bounds pride humility prayer To give prayer the secondary place is to make God seconday in life's affairs. Edward McKendree Bounds affair prayer giving 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! Edward McKendree Bounds blessed home heaven Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need. Edward McKendree Bounds prayer men needs Sainthood's piety is made, refined, perfected, by prayer. The gospel moves with slow and timid pace when the saints are not at their prayers early and late and long. Edward McKendree Bounds prayer long moving You will find out that in the measure you have allowed yourself to look back you have missed that which God has for you. Edward McKendree Bounds looks 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. Edward McKendree Bounds prayer christian love-is He only can truly pray who is all aglow for holiness, for God, and for heaven. Edward McKendree Bounds holiness praying heaven Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion. Edward McKendree Bounds farce prayer believe A severe apprenticeship in the trade of praying must be served in order to become a journeyman in it. Edward McKendree Bounds apprenticeship praying order The only limits to prayer are the promises of God and His ability to fulfill those promises. Edward McKendree Bounds limits prayer promise 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. Edward McKendree Bounds speak prayer law Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market. Edward McKendree Bounds fiber strong character Christianity is not rationalism, but faith in Gods revelation. A conspicuous, all-important item in that revelation is the resurrection of the body. Edward McKendree Bounds body important faith-in-god A denial of the reality of demonical possessions on the part of anyone who believes the Gospel narrative to be true and inspired may justly be regarded as simply and plainly inconceivable. Edward McKendree Bounds denial believe reality He who would pray, must obey. Edward McKendree Bounds praying christianity
