Edward McKendree Bounds Quotes About Heaven

Quotes about: Heaven

• Prayer is a specific divine appointment, an ordinance of Heaven, whereby God purposes to carry out His gracious designs on earth and to execute and make efficient the plan of salvation.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Design, Heaven

• God shapes the world by prayer. The prayers of God's saints are the capitol stock of heaven by which God carries on His great work upon the earth.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Heaven, Saint

• 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

• 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

• Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Heaven, Half

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.38, CCEL

• 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

  Christian, Prayer, Heaven

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1924). “The Reality of Prayer”, p.17, CCEL

• He only can truly pray who is all aglow for holiness, for God, and for heaven.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Heaven, Holiness, Praying

• 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

  Heart, Loss, Grieving

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1921). “Heaven: A Place--a City--a Home”

• The houses of Heaven are God-built and are as enduring and incorruptible as their builder. We will have bodies after the resurrection; transfigured they will be after the model of Christs glorious body.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  House, Heaven, Body

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1921). “Heaven: A Place--a City--a Home”

• Praying men are God's agents on earth, the representative of government of Heaven, set to a specific task on the earth.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Men, Heaven, Tasks

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