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• The most important lesson we can learn is how to pray. Prayers do not die, prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Heart, Important

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• It is hard to wait and press and pray, and hear no voice, but stay till God answers.

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  Prayer, Voice, Waiting

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

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• The stream of praying cannot rise higher than the fountain of living.

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  Prayer, Praying, Fountain

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.75, CCEL

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• 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

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• Prayer is the highest intelligence, the profoundest wisdom, the most vital, the most joyous, the most efficacious, the most powerful of all vocations.

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  Christian, Prayer, Powerful

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1924). “The Reality of Prayer”, p.14, CCEL

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

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  Christian, Prayer, Achievement

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

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• Public prayers are of little worth unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying.

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  Prayer, Littles, Praying

  Edward McKendree Bounds (2015). “Power Through Prayer”, p.68, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Prayer makes a godly man, and puts within him "the mind of Christ," the mind of humility, of self-surrender, of service, of pity, and of prayer. If we really pray, we will become more like God, or else we will quit praying.

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  Prayer, Humility, Godly

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• The little estimate we put on prayer is evidence from the little time we give to it.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Giving, Littles

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• 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.

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  Prayer, Heart, Goal

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

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• Prayer and a holy life are one. They mutually act and react. Neither can survive alone. The absence of the one is the absence of the other.

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  Prayer, Absence, Holy

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.32, CCEL

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• We cannot talk to God strongly when we have not lived for God strongly. The closet cannot be made holy to God when the life has not been holy to God.

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  Prayer, Holy, Made

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.75, CCEL

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• 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.

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  Prayer, Powerful, Lying

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

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• Prayer is of transcendent importance. Prayer is the mightiest agent to advance God's work. Praying hearts and hands only can do God's work. Prayer succeeds when all else fails.

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  Prayer, Heart, Hands

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.52, CCEL

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• 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.

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  Prayer, Hard Work, Sunshine

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

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

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  Christian, Prayer, Men

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

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• 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.

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  Men, Sight, Organization

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

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• The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees. He who fritters away the early morning, its opportunity and freshness, in other pursuits than seeking God will make poor headway seeking Him the rest of the day. 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.

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  Morning, Prayer, Men

  Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

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• The men who have most fully illustrated Christ in their character and have most powerfully affected the world for Him have been men who spend so much time with God as to make it a notable feature in their lives.

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  Character, Men, World

  Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

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• Prayer is God's plan to supply man's great and continuous need with God's great and continuous abundance.

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  Prayer, Men, Needs

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1924). “The Reality of Prayer”, p.13, CCEL

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• 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.

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  Hurt, Prayer, People

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• 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.

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  Prayer, Leader, Power Of God

  "Purpose in Prayer".

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• No insistence in the Scripture is more pressing than that we must pray...How clear it is, when the Bible is consulted, that the almighty God is brought directly into the things of this world by the prayers of His people.

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  Prayer, People, World

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• 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.

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  Prayer, Heart, Age

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

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• 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.

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  Prayer, Practice, Perfect

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.31, CCEL

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