Edward McKendree Bounds Quotes

Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.

It's very important to have that prayer life. It's very important to communicate always.

Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion.

Shall I give you yet another reason why you should pray? I have preached my very heart out. I could not say any more than I have said. Will not your prayers accomplish that which my preaching fails to do? Is it not likely that the Church has been putting forth its preaching hand but not its praying hand? Oh dear friends! Let us agonize in prayer.

The men who have most fully illustrated Christ in their character and have most powerfully affected the world for Him have been men who spend so much time with God as to make it a notable feature in their lives.

Prayer is not a preparation for work, it IS work. Prayer is not a preparation for the battle, it IS the battle. Prayer is two-fold: definite asking and definite waiting to receive.

Only in prayer can we learn to love God with all our heart, mind and soul.

Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.

Through prayer, fasting, and studying, God will answer.

Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire.

I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life.

Our real work is prayer. What good is the cold iron of our frantic little efforts unless first we heat it in the furnace of our prayer? Only heat will diffuse heat.

The key is - I'll say the key - number one, I pray every day.

Dear children in Jesus Christ, prayer is absolutely necessary.

As we regularly spend time reading God's Word and talking to Him in prayer, we put ourselves in position for Him to do things in our lives we could never do on our own.

As you read or listen to God's Word and spend time talking to Him in prayer, your spirit will eventually become stronger than your flesh.

My prayer life and my connection with God are on the highest level.

I pray every morning and night before bed.

Prayer is not passive. It takes a big man to pray - and to admit that he prays.

Do you wish to grow in grace and be a holy Christian? Then never forget the value of prayer.

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

The men that will change the colleges and seminaries here represented are the men that will spend the most time alone with God... It takes time for the fires to burn. It takes time for God to draw near and for us to know that He is there. It takes time to assimilate His truth.

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.

Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything. Unless in the first waking moment of the day you learn to fling the door wide back and let God in, you will work on a wrong level all day; but swing the door wide open and pray to your Father in secret, and every public thing will be stamped with the presence of God.

Like art, like music, like so many other disciplines, prayer can only be appreciated when you actually spend time in it. Spending time with the Master will elevate your thinking. The more you pray, the more will be revealed. You will appreciate not only the greatness of prayer, but the greatness of God.