Quotes from Edward McKendree Bounds

The glorified will not be pilgrims, transient visitors, or tenants at will, but settled, permanent, walled, established by title, through eternity by warrantee deed, signed, sealed, recorded, possession given. No renters, no lessees of Heaven, but all property and home owners.

Faith accepts the Bible as the word and will of God and rests upon its truth without question and without other evidence.

The sanctity of prayer is needed to impregnate business. We need the spirit of Sunday carried over to Monday and continued until Saturday. But this cannot be done by prayerless men, but by men of prayer.

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

Crucified preaching only can give life. Crucified preaching can come only from a crucified man.

It is not great talents or great learning or great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God.

All God's plans have the mark of the cross on them, and all His plans have death to self in them.

We can never know God as it is our privilege to know Him by brief repetitions that are requests for personal favors, and nothing more.

The prayers of God's saints strengthen the unborn generation against the desolating waves of sin and evil.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Prayer is a specific divine appointment, an ordinance of Heaven, whereby God purposes to carry out His gracious designs on earth and to execute and make efficient the plan of salvation.

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

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

We are feeble, weak and impoverished because of our failure to pray. God is restrained in doing because we are restrained by reason of our non-praying. All failures in securing heaven are traceable to lack of prayer or misdirected petition.

Four things let us ever keep in mind: God hears prayer, God heeds prayer, God answers prayer, and God delivers by prayer.

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.

It is necessary to iterate and reiterate that prayer, as a mere habit, as a performance gone through by routine or in a professional way, is a dead and rotten thing.

Prayer succeeds when all else fails

God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces of against evil