Top 120 Edward McKendree Bounds Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

52. “Crucified preaching only can give life. Crucified preaching can come only from a crucified man.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

53. “Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

54. “Praying men must be strong in hope, and faith, and prayer.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

55. “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

56. “A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

57. “Prayer is no fitful, short-lived thing. It is no voice crying unheard and unheeded in the silence. It is a voice which goes into God’s ear, and it lives as long as God’s ear is open to holy pleas, as long as God’s heart is alive to holy things.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

58. “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

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

— Edward McKendree Bounds

60. “God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces of against evil.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

61. “It is true that Bible prayers in word and print are short, but the praying men of the Bible were with God through many a sweet and holy wrestling hour. They won by few words but long waiting.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

62. “The central significance of prayer is not in the things that happen as results, but in the deepening intimacy and unhurried communion with God at His central throne of control in order to discover a sense of God’s need in order to call on God’s help to meet that need.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

63. “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

64. “A man can pray better because of the prayers of the past; a man can live holier because of the prayers of the past; the man of many and acceptable prayers has done the truest and greatest service to the incoming generation.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

65. “Praying gives sense, brings wisdom, and broadens and strengthens the mind. The prayer closet is a perfect schoolteacher and schoolhouse for the preacher. Thought is not only brightened and clarified in prayer, but thought is born in prayer.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

66. “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

67. “The only limits to prayer are the promises of God and His ability to fulfill those promises.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

68. “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

69. “All God’s plans have the mark of the cross on them, and all His plans have death to self in them.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

70. “A life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

71. “He who would pray, must obey.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

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

— Edward McKendree Bounds

73. “Our praying, to be strong, must be buttressed by holy living. The life of faith perfects the prayer of faith.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

74. “Prayer puts God’s work in his hands-and keeps it there.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

75. “Prayer thrives in the atmosphere of true devotion.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

76. “That man is the most immortal who has done the most and the best praying. They are God heroes, God’s saints, God’s servants, God’s vicegerents.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

77. “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

78. “Holy living is essential preparation for prayer.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

79. “The character of our praying will determine the character of our preaching. Light praying makes light preaching.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

80. “The prayers of God’s saints strengthen the unborn generation against the desolating waves of sin and evil.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

81. “That man cannot possibly be called a Christian, who does not pray.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

82. “Preaching is not the performance of an hour. It is the outflow of a life. It takes twenty years to make a sermon because it takes twenty years to make the man. The true sermon is a thing of life. The sermon grows because the man grows.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

83. “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

84. “In doing God’s work, there is no substitute for praying. The men of prayer cannot be displaced with other kinds of men.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

85. “Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

86. “When trust is perfect and there is no doubt, prayer is simply the outstretched hand ready to receive.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

87. “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

88. “Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

89. “Bread for today is bread enough.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

90. “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

91. “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

92. “Trust is faith that has become absolute, approved, and accomplished. When all is said and done, there is a sort of risk in faith and its exercise. But trust is firm belief; it is faith in full bloom. Trust is a conscious act, a fact of which we are aware.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

93. “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.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

94. “Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

95. “Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

96. “It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends, for none but the earnest man gets access to the ear of God.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

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

— Edward McKendree Bounds

98. “If we would have God in the closet, God must have us out of the closet. There is no way of praying to God, but by living to God.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

99. “We can do nothing without prayer.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

100. “Non-praying is lawlessness, discord, anarchy.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds