Edward McKendree Bounds
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.Collection: Prayer
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.Collection: Prayer
Prayer is the one prime, eternal condition by which the Father is pledged to put the Son in possession of the world. Christ prays through His people. Had there been importunate, universal, and continuous prayer by God's people, long ere this the earth had been possessed for Christ.Collection: Prayer
In prayerful sympathy and love. Hold to the old truth -- double distilled.Collection: And Love
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.Collection: Prayer
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.Collection: Strong
A life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life.Collection: Prayer
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.Collection: Real
We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours of rigorous study.Collection: Prayer
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.Collection: Prayer
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.Collection: Letting Go
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.Collection: Prayer
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.Collection: Prayer
True praying has the largest results for good; and poor praying, the least. We cannot do too much of real praying; we cannot do too little of the sham. We must learn anew the worth of prayer, enter anew the school of prayer. There is nothing which it takes more time to learn.Collection: Jesus
Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls.Collection: Prayer
We must lose all for Christ in order to gain all for Christ.Collection: Order
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.Collection: Prayer
Pray for 'all men.' We usually pray more for things than we do for men. Our prayers should be thrown across their pathway as they rush in their downward course to a lost eternity.Collection: Prayer
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.Collection: Prayer
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.Collection: Christian
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.Collection: Prayer
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.Collection: Prayer
Prayer in Jesus' name puts the crowning crown on God, because it glorifies Him through the Son and it pledges the Son to give to men 'whatsoever and anything' they shall ask.Collection: Jesus
We can do nothing without prayer.Collection: Prayer
Our praying, to be strong, must be buttressed by holy living. The life of faith perfects the prayer of faith.Collection: Life
God requires to be represented by a fiery Church... two things are intolerable to Him-insincerity and lukewarmness.Collection: Two
Prayer, in one phase of its operation, is a disinfectant and a preventive. It purifies the air; it destroys the contagion of evil.Collection: Prayer
None but praying leaders can have praying followers. A praying pulpit will beget praying pews. We do greatly need pastors and evangelists who will set the saints to this business of praying. We are not a generation of praying saints. Who will restore this breach? The greatest will he be of reformers who can set the Church to praying.Collection: Motivation
The greatest value in trouble comes to those who bow lowest before the throne.Collection: Thrones
The prayers of God's saints strengthen the unborn generation against the desolating waves of sin and evil.Collection: Prayer
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.Collection: Beautiful
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.Collection: Prayer
God's Word does not say, "Call unto me, and you will thereby be trained into the happy art of knowing how to be denied. Ask, and you will learn sweet patience by getting nothing." Far from it. But it is definite, clear and positive: "Ask, and it shall be given unto you."Collection: Sweet
Bible revelations are not against reason but above reason, for the uses of faith, mans highest faculty.Collection: Use
Non-praying is lawlessness, discord, anarchy.Collection: Prayer
Crucified preaching only can give life. Crucified preaching can come only from a crucified man.Collection: Men
Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer.Collection: Perseverance
There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous, urgent, ardent. Flamed desires, impassioned, unwearied insistence delight heaven. God would have His children incorrigibly in earnest and persistently bold in their efforts. Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls. Our whole being must be in our praying.Collection: Encouragement
Thoughts of heaven quicken our faith. Our only sure and solid foundation is the hope of heaven. The only solution to earth's mysteries, the only righter of earth's wrongs, and the only cure for worldliness, is heaven. We need an infusion of heaven into our faith and hope that will create a homesickness for that blessed place. God's home is heaven. Eternal life and all good were born there and flourish there. All life, happiness, beauty, and glory are native to the home of God. All this belongs to and awaits the heirs of God in heaven. What a glorious inheritance!Collection: Blessed
Praying men must be strong in hope, and faith, and prayer.Collection: Strong
Prayer succeeds when all else failsCollection: Christian
By prayer, the ability is secured to feel the law of love, to speak according to the law of love, and to do everything in harmony with the law of love.Collection: Prayer
The only limits to prayer are the promises of God and His ability to fulfill those promises.Collection: Prayer
Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.Collection: Prayer
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.Collection: Christian
The pride of learning is against the dependent humility of prayer.Collection: Prayer
Hope looks toward the future. Trust looks to the present. Hope expects. Trust possesses...what prayer needs, at all times, is abiding and abundant trust.Collection: Prayer
To give prayer the secondary place is to make God seconday in life's affairs.Collection: Prayer
. . . every preacher who does not make prayer a mighty factor in his own life and ministry is weak as a factor in God's work and is powerless to project God's cause in this world.Collection: Prayer