Quotes from Edward McKendree Bounds

Only God can move mountains, but faith and prayer can move God

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

Apostolic preaching cannot be carried on unless there be apostolic prayer. Men of God, before anything else, are indispensable to the furtherance of the kingdom of God on earth.

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.

Praying men must be strong in hope, and faith, and prayer.

When trust is perfect and there is no doubt, prayer is simply the outstretched hand ready to receive.

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

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.

The only limits to prayer are the promises of God and His ability to fulfill those promises.

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

Prayer thrives in the atmosphere of true devotion.

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

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

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.

The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.

Men who pray are, in reality, the only religious men, and it takes a full-measured man to pray.

The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian graces have their being, bloom and fruitage in prayer.

The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men - men of prayer.

Prayer lays hold upon God and influences Him to work. This is the meaning of prayer as it concerns God. This is the doctrine of prayer, or else there is nothing whatever in prayer.

Nothing is more important to God than prayer in dealing with mankind. But it is likewise all-important to man to pray.

The men to whom Jesus Christ committed the fortunes and destiny of His Church were men of prayer. To no other kind of men has God ever committed Himself in this world.

The character as well as the fortunes of the gospel is committed to the preacher. He makes or mars the message from God to man. The preacher is the golden pipe through which the divine oil flows.

The preachers who gain mighty results for God are the men who have prevailed in their pleadings with God ere venturing to plead with men.

Safety is in Heaven. Put your values there only; put your heart there. No tears are there to flood your heart, no sorrows there to break it, no losses there to grieve and embitter.