E.M. Bounds

Quotes

• “What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men w...”
• “A prayerless age will have but scant models of divine power. The age may be a better age than the past, but there is an ...”
• “Long, discursive, dry, and inane are the prayers in many pulpits. Without unction or heart, they fall like a killing fro...”
• “God’s revelation does not need the light of human genius, the polish and strength of human culture, the brilliancy of hu...”
• “Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still. He will never talk well and with r...”
• “God's plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God's method. The Church is lookin...”
• “Spiritual work is taxing work, and men are loath to do it. Praying, true praying, costs an outlay of serious attention a...”
• “Our devotions are not measured by the clock, but time is of the essence. The ability to wait, and stay, and press belong...”
• “Preaching never edifies a prayerless soul.”