We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours of rigorous study. Edward McKendree Bounds More Quotes by Edward McKendree Bounds More Quotes From Edward McKendree Bounds Non-praying is lawlessness, discord, anarchy. Edward McKendree Bounds lawlessness anarchy prayer It is true that Bible prayers in word and print are short, but the praying men of the Bible were with God through many a sweet and holy wrestling hour. They won by few words but long waiting. Edward McKendree Bounds prayer christian sweet Mans access in prayer to God opens everything and makes his impoverishment his wealth. All things are his through prayer. Edward McKendree Bounds wealth all-things prayer Prayer is the greatest of all forces, because it honors God and brings him into active aid. Edward McKendree Bounds aids honor prayer When trust is perfect and there is no doubt, prayer is simply the outstretched hand ready to receive. Edward McKendree Bounds prayer perfect hands Only God can move mountains, but faith and prayer can move God Edward McKendree Bounds prayer christian moving The reformer is one who with clarion voice will call the ministry back to it's knees. Edward McKendree Bounds ministry knees voice 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. Edward McKendree Bounds practice prayer perfect Prayer is no fitful, short-lived thing. It is no voice crying unheard and unheeded in the silence. It is a voice which goes into God's ear, and it lives as long as God's ear is open to holy pleas, as long as God's heart is alive to holy things. Edward McKendree Bounds voice prayer heart That man cannot possibly be called a Christian, who does not pray. Edward McKendree Bounds prayer christian men None but praying leaders can have praying followers. A praying pulpit will beget praying pews. We do greatly need pastors and evangelists who will set the saints to this business of praying. We are not a generation of praying saints. Who will restore this breach? The greatest will he be of reformers who can set the Church to praying. Edward McKendree Bounds motivation leader inspiration Importunate praying is the earnest inward movement of the heart toward God. Edward McKendree Bounds inward prayer heart 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 routine prayer gone A life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life. Edward McKendree Bounds growing purity prayer If we would have God in the closet, God must have us out of the closet. There is no way of praying to God, but by living to God. Edward McKendree Bounds praying prayer way Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness to Him, make prayer a rare and feeble thing. Edward McKendree Bounds powerful prayer littles 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. Edward McKendree Bounds prayer giving men Trust is faith that has become absolute, approved, and accomplished. When all is said and done, there is a sort of risk in faith and its exercise. But trust is firm belief; it is faith in full bloom. Trust is a conscious act, a fact of which we are aware. Edward McKendree Bounds risk exercise facts Prayer, like faith, obtains promises, enlarges their operation, and adds to the measure of their results. Edward McKendree Bounds prayer add promise Faith, and hope, and patience and all the strong, beautiful, vital forces of piety are withered and dead in a prayerless life. The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian graces have their being, bloom, and fruitage in prayer. Edward McKendree Bounds strong christian beautiful