104 Quotes by E.M. Bounds

Few Christians have anything but a vague idea of the power of prayer; fewer still have any experience of that power. The Church seems almost wholly unaware of the power God puts into her hand; this spiritual carte blanche on the infinite resources of God’s wisdom and power is rarely, if ever, used – never used to the full measure of honouring God.

Our eyes should be taken off self, removed from our own weakness and allowed to rest implicitly upon God’s strength.

Around us is a world lost in sin, above us is a God willing and able to save; it is ours to build the bridge that links heaven and earth, and prayer is the mighty instrument that does the work.

Prayer is the outstretched arms of the child for the Father’s help.

Men are God’s method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.

To pray is the greatest thing we can do: and to do it well there must be calmness, time, and deliberation; otherwise it is degraded into the littlest and meanest of things. 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. – The Power of Prayer.

It is the effectual, fervent prayer that influences God.

The Word of God is the fulcrum upon which the lever of prayer is placed, and by which things are mightily moved.

Luther said: “If I fail to spend two hours in prayer each morning, the devil gets the victory through the day. I have so much business I cannot get on without spending three hours daily in prayer.