232 Quotes by Edward McKendree Bounds

To give prayer the secondary place is to make God seconday in life's affairs.

The preachers who gain mighty results for God are the men who have prevailed in their pleadings with God ere venturing to plead with men.

Prayer and a holy life are one. They mutually act and react. Neither can survive alone. The absence of the one is the absence of the other.

The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself.

The pride of learning is against the dependent humility of prayer.

The sanctity of prayer is needed to impregnate business. We need the spirit of Sunday carried over to Monday and continued until Saturday. But this cannot be done by prayerless men, but by men of prayer.

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

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.

We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. That is the teaching of Jesus Christ