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. Edward McKendree Bounds More Quotes by Edward McKendree Bounds More Quotes From Edward McKendree Bounds 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. Edward McKendree Bounds power-of-god leader prayer Prayer is God's plan to supply man's great and continuous need with God's great and continuous abundance. Edward McKendree Bounds prayer men needs 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. Edward McKendree Bounds abiding prayer needs The greatest value in trouble comes to those who bow lowest before the throne. Edward McKendree Bounds thrones bows trouble Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. "Choked to death" would be the coroner's verdict in many cases of dead praying if an inquest could be secured on this dire, spiritual calamity. Edward McKendree Bounds prayer spiritual would-be Praying men must be strong in hope, and faith, and prayer. Edward McKendree Bounds strong prayer men The world needs more true praying to save it from the reign and ruin of Satan. Edward McKendree Bounds reign world needs Preaching is God's great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold. When wrongly executed, no evil can exceed its damaging results. Edward McKendree Bounds benefits spiritual evil The Scriptures bear ample and continuous evidence that the faith of the resurrection of the body lies in the faith that Jesus Christ died and rose again. Edward McKendree Bounds rose lying jesus 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. Edward McKendree Bounds earth prayer men We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours of rigorous study. Edward McKendree Bounds study praying prayer The lazy man does not, will not, cannot pray, for prayer demands energy. Edward McKendree Bounds lazy-man prayer men . . . 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. Edward McKendree Bounds ministry prayer doe Safety is in Heaven. Put your values there only; put your heart there. No tears are there to flood your heart, no sorrows there to break it, no losses there to grieve and embitter. Edward McKendree Bounds loss heart grieving Prayer thrives in the atmosphere of true devotion. Edward McKendree Bounds atmosphere devotion prayer In prayerful sympathy and love. Hold to the old truth -- double distilled. Edward McKendree Bounds sympathy-and-love prayerful and-love 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 prayer christian heaven The conditions of praying are the conditions of righteousness, holiness, and salvation. Edward McKendree Bounds holiness praying christianity Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still. Edward McKendree Bounds prayer talking men God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces of against evil Edward McKendree Bounds prayer evil world
