232 Quotes by Edward McKendree Bounds

The men to whom Jesus Christ committed the fortunes and destiny of His Church were men of prayer. To no other kind of men has God ever committed Himself in this world.

He only can truly pray who is all aglow for holiness, for God, and for heaven.

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.

In doing God's work, there is no substitute for praying. The men of prayer cannot be displaced with other kinds of men.

A severe apprenticeship in the trade of praying must be served in order to become a journeyman in it.

God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.

Only God can move mountains, but faith and prayer can move God.

God’s willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children, just as far as God’s ability, goodness and perfection exceed our infirmities and evil.

Prayer makes a godly man, and puts within him “the mind of Christ,” the mind of humility, of self-surrender, of service, of pity, and of prayer. If we really pray, we will become more like God, or else we will quit praying.