Top 201 Quotes & Sayings by Edward McKendree Bounds - Page 4

Mans access in prayer to God opens everything and makes his impoverishment his wealth. All things are his through prayer.

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.

God shapes the world by prayer.

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.

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.

You will find out that in the measure you have allowed yourself to look back you have missed that which God has for you.

He who would pray, must obey.

Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls.

Christianity is not rationalism, but faith in Gods revelation. A conspicuous, all-important item in that revelation is the resurrection of the body.

Faith does the impossible because it brings God to undertake for us, and nothing is impossible with God.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Love is kindled in a flame, and ardency is its life. Flame is the air which true Christian experience breathes. It feeds on fire; it can withstand anything rather than a feeble flame; but when the surrounding atmosphere is frigid or lukewarm, it dies, chilled and starved to its vitals. True prayer must be aflame.

No erudition, no purity of diction, no width of mental outlook, no flowers of eloquence, no grace of person can atone for lack of fire. Prayer ascends by fire. Flame gives prayer access as well as wings, acceptance as well as energy. There is no incense without fire; no prayer without flame.

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

A severe apprenticeship in the trade of praying must be served in order to become a journeyman in it.

The houses of Heaven are God-built and are as enduring and incorruptible as their builder. We will have bodies after the resurrection; transfigured they will be after the model of Christs glorious body.