Edward McKendree Bounds
Only God can move mountains, but faith and prayer can move GodCollection: Christian
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.Collection: Prayer
Four things let us ever keep in mind: God hears prayer, God heeds prayer, God answers prayer, and God delivers by prayer.Collection: Prayer
Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.Collection: God
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.Collection: Prayer
All God's plans have the mark of the cross on them, and all His plans have death to self in them.Collection: Self
Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still.Collection: Prayer
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.Collection: Morning
We can never expect to grow in the likeness of our Lord unless we follow His example and give more time to communion with the Father. A revival of real praying would produce a spiritual revolution.Collection: Spiritual
No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.Collection: Prayer
The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees.Collection: Prayer
Trust perfected is prayer perfected. Trust looks to receive the thing asked for and gets it. Trust is not a belief that God can bless or that He will bless, but that He does bless, here and now. Trust always operates in the present tense. Hope looks toward the future. Trust looks to the present. Hope expects. Trust possesses. Trust receives what prayer acquires. So, what prayer needs, at all times, is abiding and abundant trust.Collection: Prayer
Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet.Collection: Prayer
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.Collection: Prayer
Prayer is far-reaching in its influence and worldwide in its effects. It affects all men, affects them everywhere, and affects them in all things. It touches man's interest in time and eternity. It lays hold upon God and moves Him to interfere in the affairs of earth. It moves the angels to minister to men in this life. It restrains and defeats the devil in his schemes to ruin man. Prayer goes everywhere and lays its hand upon everything.Collection: Prayer
Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been held.Collection: Prayer
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.Collection: Prayer
The word of God is the food by which prayer is nourished and made strong.Collection: Strong
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.Collection: Prayer
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.Collection: Prayer
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.Collection: Prayer
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.Collection: Morning
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.Collection: Prayer
The conditions of praying are the conditions of righteousness, holiness, and salvation.Collection: Holiness
The lazy man does not, will not, cannot pray, for prayer demands energy.Collection: Prayer
The world needs more true praying to save it from the reign and ruin of Satan.Collection: Needs
The houses of Heaven are God-built and are as enduring and incorruptible as their builder. We will have bodies after the resurrection; transfigured they will be after the model of Christs glorious body.Collection: House
Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need.Collection: Prayer
Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.Collection: Prayer
He only can truly pray who is all aglow for holiness, for God, and for heaven.Collection: Heaven
The reformer is one who with clarion voice will call the ministry back to it's knees.Collection: Voice
Faith does the impossible because it brings God to undertake for us, and nothing is impossible with God.Collection: Christian
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.Collection: Prayer
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.Collection: Prayer
Prayer puts God's work in his hands-and keeps it there.Collection: Prayer
Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer; but a capacity for faith, the power of a thorough consecration, the ability of self-littleness, an absolute losing of one's self in God's glory and an ever present and insatiable yearning and seeking after all the fullness of God.Collection: Prayer
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.Collection: Spiritual
Prayer thrives in the atmosphere of true devotion.Collection: Prayer
Preaching is God's great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold. When wrongly executed, no evil can exceed its damaging results.Collection: Spiritual
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 evilCollection: Prayer
You will find out that in the measure you have allowed yourself to look back you have missed that which God has for you.Collection: Looks
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.Collection: Christian
A severe apprenticeship in the trade of praying must be served in order to become a journeyman in it.Collection: Order
Christianity is not rationalism, but faith in Gods revelation. A conspicuous, all-important item in that revelation is the resurrection of the body.Collection: Important
He who would pray, must obey.Collection: Praying
Mans access in prayer to God opens everything and makes his impoverishment his wealth. All things are his through prayer.Collection: Prayer
Importunate praying is the earnest inward movement of the heart toward God.Collection: Prayer
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.Collection: Prayer
God shapes the world by prayer.Collection: Prayer