Top 120 Edward McKendree Bounds Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Only God can move mountains, but faith and prayer can move God.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

2. “Prayer should not be regarded as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege to be enjoyed, a rare delight that is always revealing some new beauty.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

3. “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.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

4. “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

5. “The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

6. “The lazy man does not, will not, cannot pray, for prayer demands energy.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

7. “God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

8. “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

9. “The word of God is the food by which prayer is nourished and made strong.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

10. “Every mighty move of the Spirit of God has had its source in the prayer chamber.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

11. “We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles, overcomes every resisting force and gains its ends in the face of invincible hindrances.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

12. “The story of every great Christian achievement is the history of answered prayer.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

13. “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

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

— Edward McKendree Bounds

15. “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.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

16. “The sanctity of prayer is needed to impregnate business. We need the spirit of Sunday carried over to Monday and continued until Saturday. But this cannot be done by prayerless men, but by men of prayer.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

17. “There is power through prayer. For many Christians, prayer is nothing special, just something we’re supposed to do – go to church, tithe, read the Bible, pray. But prayer should be so much more than an item on our “to do” lists.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

18. “God shapes the world by prayer.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

19. “Prayer is the greatest of all forces, because it honors God and brings him into active aid.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

20. “Our praying, however, needs to be pressed and pursued with an energy that never tires, a persistency which will not be denied, and a courage which never fails.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

21. “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

22. “Faith does the impossible because it brings God to undertake for us, and nothing is impossible with God.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

23. “The pride of learning is against the dependent humility of prayer.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

24. “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

25. “Importunate praying is the earnest inward movement of the heart toward God.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

26. “To give prayer the secondary place is to make God seconday in life’s affairs.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

27. “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

28. “Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God’s saints have been held.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

29. “Prayer succeeds when all else fails.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

30. “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

31. “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

32. “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

33. “Prayer, in one phase of its operation, is a disinfectant and a preventive. It purifies the air; it destroys the contagion of evil.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

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

— Edward McKendree Bounds

35. “Prayer is God’s plan to supply man’s great and continuous need with God’s great and continuous abundance.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

36. “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

37. “No man can do a great and enduring work for God who is not a man of prayer, and no man can be a man of prayer who does not give much time to praying.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

38. “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

39. “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

40. “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

41. “The resurrection of Jesus Christ was necessary to establish the truth of his mission and put the stamp of all-conquering power on his gospel.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

42. “The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

43. “It is not great talents or great learning or great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God...”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

44. “We must lose all for Christ in order to gain all for Christ.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

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

— Edward McKendree Bounds

46. “No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

47. “Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

48. “Sainthood’s piety is made, refined, perfected, by prayer. The gospel moves with slow and timid pace when the saints are not at their prayers early and late and long.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

49. “Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

50. “Apostolic preaching cannot be carried on unless there be apostolic prayer. Men of God, before anything else, are indispensable to the furtherance of the kingdom of God on earth.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds