Edward McKendree Bounds Quotes About Church

Quotes about: Church

• What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men, men of prayer.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Men, Organization

  Edward McKendree Bounds (2015). “Power Through Prayer”, p.5, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

• The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Men, Religion

  Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

• 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.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Men, Sight, Organization

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

• There is power through prayer. For many Christians, prayer is nothing special, just something we're supposed to do - go to church, tithe, read the Bible, pray. But prayer should be so much more than an item on our "to do" lists.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Christian, Prayer, Church

• if the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Believe, Church

• 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, Inspiration, Leader

• God requires to be represented by a fiery Church... two things are intolerable to Him-insincerity and lukewarmness.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Two, Church, Insincerity

• 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

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