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• You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.

  S. D Gordon

  Prayer, Kneeling, Praying

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• I feel it is far better to begin with God, to see His face first, to get my soul near Him before it is near another. In general it is best to have at least one hour alone with God before engaging in anything else.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  God, Christian, Religious

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

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• 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

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• 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

  Beautiful, Christian, Strong

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• God's willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children, just as far as God's ability, goodness and perfection exceed our infirmities and evil.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Children, Evil

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.104, CCEL

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• 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

  Prayer, Powerful, Littles

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• 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

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• A life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Growing, Purity

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.76, CCEL

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• Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Believe, Farce

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• The first and last stages of holy living are crowned with praying.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Lasts, Firsts, Praying

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

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• Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still. He will never talk well and with real success to men for God who has not learned well how to talk to God for men.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Real, Men, Talking

  Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

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• Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. "Choked to death" would be the coroner's verdict in many cases of dead praying if an inquest could be secured on this dire, spiritual calamity.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Spiritual, Prayer, Would Be

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

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• Praying which does not result in pure conduct is a delusion. We have missed the whole office and virtue of praying if it does not rectify conduct. It is in the very nature of things that we must quit praying, or quit bad conduct.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Office, Doe

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.76, CCEL

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• 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”

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• 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

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• Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat, not to count the times, but to gain the prayer. We cannot quit praying because heart and soul are in it. We pray "with all perseverance." We hang to our prayers because by them we live. We press our pleas because we must have them, or die.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Perseverance, Prayer, Heart

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.39, CCEL

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• Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at God's footstool. Too often we get faint-hearted and quit praying at the point where we ought to begin. We let go at the very point where we should hold on strongest. Our prayers are weak because they are not impassioned by an unfailing and resistless will.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Letting Go, Perseverance, Jesus

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.41, CCEL

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• The possibilities of prayer are found in its allying itself with the purposes of God, for God's purposes and man's praying are the combination of all potent and omnipotent forces.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Men, Purpose

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

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• 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

  Prayer, Routine, Gone

  Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

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• We regard prayer no longer as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege which is to be enjoyed, a rare delight that is always revealing some new beauty.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Delight, Privilege

  "Purpose in Prayer".

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• The conditions of praying are the conditions of righteousness, holiness, and salvation.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Holiness, Praying, Christianity

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

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• We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. That is the teaching of Jesus Christ

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Jesus, Prayer, Teaching

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.37, CCEL

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• Non-praying is lawlessness, discord, anarchy.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Lawlessness, Anarchy

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1924). “The Reality of Prayer”, p.6, CCEL

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• 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

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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.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Heart, Hands

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

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