Edward McKendree Bounds - Pray Quotes

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It is hard to wait and press and pray, and hear no voice, but stay till God answers.

Edward McKendree Bounds
To say prayers in a decent, delicate way is not heavy work. But to pray really, to pray till hell feels the ponderous stroke, to pray till the iron gates of difficulty are opened, till the mountains of obstacles are removed, till the mists are exhaled and the clouds are lifted, and the sunshine of a cloudless day brightens-this is hard work, but it is God's work, and man's best labor.

Edward McKendree Bounds
Men would pray better if they lived better. They would get more from God if they lived more obedient and well-pleasing to God.

Edward McKendree Bounds
No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.

Edward McKendree Bounds
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.

Edward McKendree Bounds
A man can pray better because of the prayers of the past; a man can live holier because of the prayers of the past; the man of many and acceptable prayers has done the truest and greatest service to the incoming generation.

Edward McKendree Bounds
The lazy man does not, will not, cannot pray, for prayer demands energy.

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

Edward McKendree Bounds
He who is too busy to pray will be too busy to live a holy life. Satan had rather we let the grass grow on the path to our prayer chamber than anything else.

Edward McKendree Bounds
That man cannot possibly be called a Christian, who does not pray.

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.

Edward McKendree Bounds