Edward McKendree Bounds Quotes

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.

God does nothing except in response to believing prayer.

Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.

Prayer is our invitation to God to intervene in the affairs of earth. It is our request for Him to work His ways in this world.

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

For me, in my Christian belief, prayer is not an opportunity to manipulate God into doing what you want him to. Prayer is an opportunity to have a conversation with God to try to get in tune with what his will is.

Prayer is of transcendent importance. Prayer is the mightiest agent to advance God's work. Praying hearts and hands only can do God's work. Prayer succeeds when all else fails.

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 is the one thing that can conquer God

Our prayers cannot force God to do anything, but He uses them as His own instruments to bring about His will.

Prayer moves the arm that moves the world.

Prayer is the greatest force that we can wield. It is the greatest talent which God has granted us. He has given it to every Christian.

Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.

If prayer puts God to work on earth, then, by the same token, prayerlessness rules God out of the world's affairs and prevents Him from working.

God does say He will graciously entertain our prayers. He says that if we exercise faith, and if our request is in accordance with His will, He will hear us.

Righteousness and faith certainly are instrumental in moving mountains - if moving mountains accomplishes God's purposes and is in accordance with His will.

Until you pray, God cannot work.

Our dear Lord said we should pray always. Everything we are doing should be either a prayer in itself or can be made into a prayer. Any action that is not in itself wrong can be done in union with God and His divine will.

If you don't hear His voice so let Him hear yours. When prayers go up blessings descend.

No problem is too small for His attention nor so large that He cannot answer the prayer of faith. Prayer surely is the passport to spiritual power.

Prayer continues to provide power--spiritual power. Prayer continues to provide peace--spiritual peace.

There's power when you call on God, you ask Him, and you invite Him into your life. God will be in your life as much as you allow Him to.

No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes.

Make the most of prayer. ... Prayer is the master-weapon. We should be wise if we used it more, and did so with a more specific purpose.

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