Quotes from Edward McKendree Bounds

If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day.

Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet.

We regard prayer no longer as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege which is to be enjoyed, a rare delight that is always revealing some new beauty.

Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still.

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.

God shapes the world by prayer. The prayers of God's saints are the capitol stock of heaven by which God carries on His great work upon the earth.

Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been held.

The word of God is the food by which prayer is nourished and made strong.

Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer.

The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees.

Trouble and prayer are closely related. Trouble often drives men to God in prayer, while prayer is but the voice of men in trouble.

A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet.

We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. That is the teaching of Jesus Christ

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

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

The story of every great Christian achievement is the history of answered prayer.

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.

God shapes the world by prayer.

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

Prayer and a holy life are one. They mutually act and react. Neither can survive alone. The absence of the one is the absence of the other.

We can do nothing without prayer.

Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness to Him, make prayer a rare and feeble thing.

Pray for 'all men.' We usually pray more for things than we do for men. Our prayers should be thrown across their pathway as they rush in their downward course to a lost eternity.

if the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion.