232 Quotes by Edward McKendree Bounds

The most important lesson we can learn is how to pray. Prayers do not die, prayers live before God, and God’s heart is set on them.

In prayerful sympathy and love. Hold to the old truth – double distilled.

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.

That man is the most immortal who has done the most and the best praying. They are God heroes, God’s saints, God’s servants, God’s vicegerents.

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.

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

The prayers of God’s saints strengthen the unborn generation against the desolating waves of sin and evil.

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

Prayer is God’s plan to supply man’s great and continuous need with God’s great and continuous abundance.