Edward McKendree Bounds Quotes About Prayer

Quotes about: Prayer

• 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.

• I think Christians fail so often to get answers to their prayers because they do not wait long enough on God. They just drop down and say a few words, and then jump up and forget it and expect God to answer them. Such praying always reminds me of the small boy ringing his neighbor's door-bell, and then running away as fast as he can go.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  God, Christian, Running

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.26, CCEL

• God is waiting to be put to the test by His people in prayer. He delights in being put to the test on His promises. It is His highest pleasure to answer prayer, to prove the reliability of His promises.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, People, Waiting

• 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

• To say prayers in a decent, delicate way is not heavy work. But to pray really, to pray till hell feels the ponderous stroke, to pray till the iron gates of difficulty are opened, till the mountains of obstacles are removed, till the mists are exhaled and the clouds are lifted, and the sunshine of a cloudless day brightens-this is hard work, but it is God's work, and man's best labor.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Hard Work, Sunshine

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.63, CCEL

• The prayers of God's saints strengthen the unborn generation against the desolating waves of sin and evil.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Evil, Generations

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.4, CCEL

• 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

  Prayer, Names, Ministry

• Trust perfected is prayer perfected. Trust looks to receive the thing asked for and gets it. Trust is not a belief that God can bless or that He will bless, but that He does bless, here and now. Trust always operates in the present tense. Hope looks toward the future. Trust looks to the present. Hope expects. Trust possesses. Trust receives what prayer acquires. So, what prayer needs, at all times, is abiding and abundant trust.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Doe, Needs

• 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

  Prayer, Heart, Goal

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.43, CCEL

• 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

  Prayer, Grace, Walking With God

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.27, CCEL

• Four things let us ever keep in mind: God hears prayer, God heeds prayer, God answers prayer, and God delivers by prayer.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Mind, Answers

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1977). “Prayer and Praying Men”, Baker Publishing Group (MI)

• Prayer is the easiest and hardest of all things; the simplest and the sublimest; the weakest and the most powerful; its results lie outside the range of human possibilities-they are limited only by the omnipotence of God.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Powerful, Lying

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.30, CCEL

• 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. Prayers are deathless. The lips that uttered them may be closed to death, the heart that felt them may have ceased to beat, but the prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them and prayers outlive the lives of those who uttered them; they outlive a generation, outlive an age, outlive a world.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Heart, Age

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.3, CCEL

• He who is too busy to pray will be too busy to live a holy life. Satan had rather we let the grass grow on the path to our prayer chamber than anything else.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Path, Praying

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.69, CCEL

• Men would pray better if they lived better. They would get more from God if they lived more obedient and well-pleasing to God.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Men, Praying

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”

• 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

  Prayer, Men, Vices

• Praying gives sense, brings wisdom, broadens and strengthens the mind. The closet is a perfect school-teacher and schoolhouse for the preacher. Thought is not only brightened and clarified in prayer, but thought is born in prayer. We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours in the study.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Giving, Perfect

  "Power Through Prayer".

• Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  God, Christian, Prayer

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

• The story of every great Christian achievement is the history of answered prayer.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Christian, Prayer, Achievement

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.11, CCEL

• Trouble and prayer are closely related. Trouble often drives men to God in prayer, while prayer is but the voice of men in trouble.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Men, Voice

• 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

  Prayer, Favors, Privilege

• Every mighty move of the Spirit of God has had its source in the prayer chamber.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Moving, Spirit

• That man cannot possibly be called a Christian, who does not pray.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Christian, Prayer, Men

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1976). “The necessity of prayer”, Baker Pub Group

• 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

  Morning, Prayer, Effort

  Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

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