232 Quotes by Edward McKendree Bounds

Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still.

Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. “Choked to death” would be the coroner’s verdict in many cases of dead praying if an inquest could be secured on this dire, spiritual calamity.

God’s Word does not say, “Call unto me, and you will thereby be trained into the happy art of knowing how to be denied. Ask, and you will learn sweet patience by getting nothing.” Far from it. But it is definite, clear and positive: “Ask, and it shall be given unto you.”

God’s cause is committed to men; God commits Himself to men. Praying men are the vice-regents of God; they do His work and carry out His plans.

The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees.

Praying men are God’s agents on earth, the representative of government of Heaven, set to a specific task on the earth.

Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God’s saints have been held.

Prayer succeeds when all else fails.

Sainthood’s piety is made, refined, perfected, by prayer. The gospel moves with slow and timid pace when the saints are not at their prayers early and late and long.