Prayer Quotes - Page 34

• 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, Heart, Soul

  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

  Men, Purpose, Praying

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

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• Prayer puts God's work in his hands-and keeps it there.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Hands

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

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• 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

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

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Voice, Waiting, Answers

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

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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

  Children, Evil, Giving

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

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• Prayer, like faith, obtains promises, enlarges their operation, and adds to the measure of their results.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Promise, Add, Results

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

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• Prayer is our most formidable weapon, the thing which makes all else we do efficient.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Weapons, Formidable, Efficient

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• No erudition, no purity of diction, no width of mental outlook, no flowers of eloquence, no grace of person can atone for lack of fire. Prayer ascends by fire. Flame gives prayer access as well as wings, acceptance as well as energy. There is no incense without fire; no prayer without flame.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Flower, Acceptance, Wings

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

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• Love is kindled in a flame, and ardency is its life. Flame is the air which true Christian experience breathes. It feeds on fire; it can withstand anything rather than a feeble flame; but when the surrounding atmosphere is frigid or lukewarm, it dies, chilled and starved to its vitals. True prayer must be aflame.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Christian, Love Is, Fire

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• 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

  Men, Organization, Church

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

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• Prayer that runs its course till the last day of life needs a strong and tranquil soul.

  Clement of Alexandria

  Running, Strong, Soul

  Clement of Alexandria (2015). “On the Salvation of the Rich Man”, p.1192, OrthodoxEbooks

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• I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray; pray thyself in me.

  Francois Fenelon

  Desire, Praying, Accomplish

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• Speak, move, act in peace, as if you were in prayer. In truth, this is prayer.

  Francois Fenelon

  Moving, Speak, Ifs

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• All my life I have risen regularly at four o'clock and have gone into the woods and talked to God. There He gives me my orders for the day.

  George Washington Carver

  Order, Giving, Religion

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• There is literally nothing that I ever asked to do, that I asked the blessed Creator to help me to do, that I have not been able to accomplish.

  George Washington Carver

  Blessed, Religion, Able

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• Jesus' pattern prayer, which is both crutch, road, and walking lesson for the spiritually lame like ourselves, tells us to start with God: for God matters infinitely more than we do.

  J. I. Packer

  Jesus, Lame, Lessons

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• Prayer should be the means by which I, at all times, receive all that I need, and, for this reason, be my daily refuge, my daily consolation, my daily joy, my source of rich and inexhaustible joy in life.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Mean, Joy, Needs

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• The potency of prayer hath subdued the strength of fire; it hath bridled the rage of lions, hushed anarchy to rest, extinguished wars, appeased the elements, expelled demons, burst the chains of death, expanded the gates of heaven, assuaged diseases, repelled frauds, rescued cities from destruction, stayed the sun in its course, and arrested the progress of the thunderbolt.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  War, Fire, Cities

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• Prayer is an ordinance of God, that must continue with a soul so long as it is on this side glory.

  John Bunyan

  Long, Soul, Sides

  John Bunyan, Thomas Goodwin, Thomas Shepard (2007). “Prayer, Return of Prayer and the Saint's Jewel”, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Sincerity is the same in a corner alone, as it is before the face of the world. It knows not how to wear two vizards, one for an appearance before men, and another for a short snatch in a corner; but it must have God, and be with him in the duty of prayer. It is not lip-labour that it doth regard, for it is the heart that God looks at, and that which sincerity looks at, and that which prayer comes from, if it be that prayer which is accompanied with sincerity.

  John Bunyan

  Heart, Men, Two

  John Bunyan (1850). “The works of that eminent servant of Christ ...”

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• It is not the mouth that is the main thing to be looked at in prayer, but whether the heart is so full of affection and earnestness in prayer with God, that it is impossible to express their sense and desire; for then a man desires indeed, when his desires are so strong, many, and mighty, that all the words, tears, and groans that can come from the heart, cannot utter them.

  John Bunyan

  Strong, Heart, Men

  John Bunyan, Henry Stebbing (1859). “The entire works of John Bunyan”, p.270

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• We know not the matter of the things for which we should pray, neither the object to whom we pray, nor the medium by or through whom we pray; none of these things know we, but by the help and assistance of the Spirit.

  John Bunyan

  Matter, Spirit, Helping

  John Bunyan (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)”, p.1854, Delphi Classics

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• Are you weak? Weary? Confused? Troubled? Pressured? How is your relationship with God? Is it held in its place of priority? I believe the greater the pressure, the greater your need for time alone with Him.

  Kay Arthur

  Confused, Believe, Priorities

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