104 Quotes by E.M. Bounds

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.

A prayerless age will have but scant models of divine power. The age may be a better age than the past, but there is an infinite distance between the betterment of an age by the force of an advancing civilization and its betterment by the increase of holiness and Christlikeness by the energy of prayer.

Prayer, without fervor, stakes nothing on the issue, because it has nothing at stake.

Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.

A prepared heart is much better than a prepared sermon. A prepared heart will make a prepared sermon.

Preaching never edifies a prayerless soul.

The preacher must have, "bonds of a servant with the spirit of a king, a king in high, royal, independent bearing, with the simplicity and sweetness of a child.

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

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.