232 Quotes by Edward McKendree Bounds

The conditions of praying are the conditions of righteousness, holiness, and salvation.

He who would pray, must obey.

Every mighty move of the Spirit of God has had its source in the prayer chamber.

Prayer is the highest intelligence, the profoundest wisdom, the most vital, the most joyous, the most efficacious, the most powerful of all vocations.

God requires to be represented by a fiery Church... two things are intolerable to Him-insincerity and lukewarmness.

Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care, much thought, practice and labour are required to be a skillful tradesman in praying. Practice in this, as well as in all other trades, makes perfect.

The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.

Apostolic preaching cannot be carried on unless there be apostolic prayer. Men of God, before anything else, are indispensable to the furtherance of the kingdom of God on earth.

We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles, overcomes every resisting force and gains its ends in the face of invincible hindrances.