Edward McKendree Bounds - Praying Quotes

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We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours of rigorous study.

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Prayer concerns God, whose purposes and plans are conditioned on prayer. His will and His glory are bound up in praying.

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

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No man can do a great and enduring work for God who is not a man of prayer, and no man can be a man of prayer who does not give much time to praying.

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The first and last stages of holy living are crowned with praying.

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Our praying, however, needs to be pressed and pursued with an energy that never tires, a persistency which will not be denied, and a courage which never fails.

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

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The world needs more true praying to save it from the reign and ruin of Satan.

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The character of our praying will determine the character of our preaching. Light praying makes light preaching.

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It is true that Bible prayers in word and print are short, but the praying men of the Bible were with God through many a sweet and holy wrestling hour. They won by few words but long waiting.

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The possibilities of prayer are found in its allying itself with the purposes of God, for God's purposes and man's praying are the combination of all potent and omnipotent forces.

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Praying which does not result in pure conduct is a delusion. We have missed the whole office and virtue of praying if it does not rectify conduct. It is in the very nature of things that we must quit praying, or quit bad conduct.

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I think Christians fail so often to get answers to their prayers because they do not wait long enough on God. They just drop down and say a few words, and then jump up and forget it and expect God to answer them. Such praying always reminds me of the small boy ringing his neighbor's door-bell, and then running away as fast as he can go.

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

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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.

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Prayer is of transcendent importance. Prayer is the mightiest agent to advance God's work. Praying hearts and hands only can do God's work. Prayer succeeds when all else fails.

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The stream of praying cannot rise higher than the fountain of living.

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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.

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Our praying, to be strong, must be buttressed by holy living. The life of faith perfects the prayer of faith.

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We can never expect to grow in the likeness of our Lord unless we follow His example and give more time to communion with the Father. A revival of real praying would produce a spiritual revolution.

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Importunate praying is the earnest inward movement of the heart toward God.

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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.

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If we would have God in the closet, God must have us out of the closet. There is no way of praying to God, but by living to God.

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Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at God's footstool. Too often we get faint-hearted and quit praying at the point where we ought to begin. We let go at the very point where we should hold on strongest. Our prayers are weak because they are not impassioned by an unfailing and resistless will.

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Public prayers are of little worth unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying.

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There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous, urgent, ardent. Flamed desires, impassioned, unwearied insistence delight heaven. God would have His children incorrigibly in earnest and persistently bold in their efforts. Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls. Our whole being must be in our praying.

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