E. M. Bounds

Quotes

• “To say prayers in a decent delicate way is not heavy work. But to pray really to pray till hell feels the ponderous st...”
• “The goal of prayer is the ear of God a goal that can only be reached by patient and continued and continuous waiting up...”
• “Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at God's foots...”
• “Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at God's foots...”
• “I think Christians fail so often to get answers to their prayers because they do not wait long enough on God. They just ...”
• “Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer but a capacity for faith ...”
• “Faith and hope and patience and all the strong beautiful vital forces of piety are withered and dead in a prayerless...”
• “Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care much thought practi...”
• “Praying which does not result in pure conduct is a delusion. We have missed the whole office and virtue of praying if it...”
• “Prayer is the easiest and hardest of all things the simplest and the sublim-est the weakest and the most powerful its...”
• “I feel it is far better to begin with God to see His face first to get my soul near Him before it is near another. In ...”
• “Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. "Choked to death" would be the coroner's verdict in man...”
• “We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles o...”
• “God's willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children just ...”
• “It (prayer) dispels frivolity and drives away all skin-deep forms of worship, and makes worship a serious and deep-seate...”
• “The possibilities of prayer are found in its allying itself with the purposes of God for God's purposes and man's prayi...”
• “Prayer is of transcendent importance. Prayer is the mightiest agent to advance God's work. Praying hearts and hands only...”
• “It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends for none but t...”
• “By prayer the ability is secured to feel the law of love to speak according to the law of love and to do everything i...”
• “We cannot talk to God strongly when we have not lived for God strongly. The closet cannot be made holy to God when the l...”
• “Trouble and prayer are closely related. . . . Trouble often drives men to God in prayer while prayer is but the voice o...”
• “We can never know God as it is our privilege to know Him by brief repetitions that are requests for personal favors and...”
• “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...”
• “Men would pray better if they lived better. They would get more from God if they lived more obedient and well-pleasing t...”
• “The more praying there is in the world the better the world will be the mightier the forces against evil everywhere.”
• “Our praying to be strong must be buttressed by holy living. The life of faith perfects the prayer of faith.”
• “Prayer like faith obtains promises enlarges their operation and adds to the measure of their results.”
• “Prayer honors God acknowledges His being exalts His power adores His providence secures His aid.”
• “Prayer is our most formidable weapon the thing which makes all else we do efficient.”
• “It is hard to wait and press and pray and hear no voice but stay till God answers.”
• “Private place and plenty of time are the life of prayer.”
• “Prayer puts God's work in his hands-and keeps it there.”
• “Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.”
• “Non-praying is lawlessness discord anarchy.”