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. Edward McKendree Bounds More Quotes by Edward McKendree Bounds More Quotes From Edward McKendree Bounds 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. Edward McKendree Bounds hurt prayer people 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. Edward McKendree Bounds goal prayer heart 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. Edward McKendree Bounds ministry prayer names 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. Edward McKendree Bounds character men world 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 effort prayer morning Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been held. Edward McKendree Bounds bars saint prayer 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. Edward McKendree Bounds prayer heart father Praying that does not result in right thinking and right living is a farce. We have missed the whole office of prayer if it fails to purge our character and correct conduct. We have failed entirely to understand the virtue of prayer, if it does not bring about the revolutionizing of life. In the very nature of tings, we must either quit praying or quit our bad conduct. Edward McKendree Bounds prayer character thinking Walking with God down the avenue of prayer we acquire something of His likeness, and unconsciously we become witnesses to others of His beauty and His grace. Edward McKendree Bounds walking-with-god grace prayer 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. Edward McKendree Bounds mold saint men The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men. Edward McKendree Bounds prayer men religion God's cause is committed to men; God commits Himself to men. Praying men are the vice-regents of God; they do His work and carry out His plans. Edward McKendree Bounds vices prayer men We can never know God as it is our privilege to know Him by brief repetitions that are requests for personal favors, and nothing more. Edward McKendree Bounds privilege favors prayer The story of every great Christian achievement is the history of answered prayer. Edward McKendree Bounds achievement prayer christian Our praying, to be strong, must be buttressed by holy living. The life of faith perfects the prayer of faith. Edward McKendree Bounds christian faith life The word of God is the food by which prayer is nourished and made strong. Edward McKendree Bounds strong prayer made The prayers of God's saints strengthen the unborn generation against the desolating waves of sin and evil. Edward McKendree Bounds generations prayer evil Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid. Edward McKendree Bounds prayer christian god The possibilities of prayer are found in its allying itself with the purposes of God, for God's purposes and man's praying are the combination of all potent and omnipotent forces. Edward McKendree Bounds purpose prayer men God's willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children, just as far as God's ability, goodness and perfection exceed our infirmities and evil. Edward McKendree Bounds prayer evil children
