Quotes about prayer
prayer shapes world
God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them. Edward McKendree Bounds
prayer promise limits
The only limits to prayer are the promises of God and His ability to fulfill those promises. Edward McKendree Bounds
prayer law speak
By prayer, the ability is secured to feel the law of love, to speak according to the law of love, and to do everything in harmony with the law of love. Edward McKendree Bounds
prayer lawlessness anarchy
Non-praying is lawlessness, discord, anarchy. Edward McKendree Bounds
prayer wealth access
Mans access in prayer to God opens everything and makes his impoverishment his wealth. All things are his through prayer. Edward McKendree Bounds
prayer purpose praying
Prayer concerns God, whose purposes and plans are conditioned on prayer. His will and His glory are bound up in praying. Edward McKendree Bounds
prayer character thinking
Praying that does not result in right thinking and right living is a farce. We have missed the whole office of prayer if it fails to purge our character and correct conduct. We have failed entirely to understand the virtue of prayer, if it does not bring about the revolutionizing of life. In the very nature of tings, we must either quit praying or quit our bad conduct. Edward McKendree Bounds
prayer heaven world
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. Edward McKendree Bounds
prayer giving littles
The little estimate we put on prayer is evidence from the little time we give to it. Edward McKendree Bounds
prayer men gods-plan
Prayer is God's plan to supply man's great and continuous need with God's great and continuous abundance. Edward McKendree Bounds
prayer needs energy
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. Edward McKendree Bounds
prayer praying fountain
The stream of praying cannot rise higher than the fountain of living. Edward McKendree Bounds
prayer doe holy
A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet. Edward McKendree Bounds
prayer men lazy-man
The lazy man does not, will not, cannot pray, for prayer demands energy. Edward McKendree Bounds
prayer atmosphere devotion
Prayer thrives in the atmosphere of true devotion. Edward McKendree Bounds
prayer littles praying
Public prayers are of little worth unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying. Edward McKendree Bounds
prayer heart inward
Importunate praying is the earnest inward movement of the heart toward God. Edward McKendree Bounds
prayer mind answers
Four things let us ever keep in mind: God hears prayer, God heeds prayer, God answers prayer, and God delivers by prayer. Edward McKendree Bounds
prayer men pathways
Pray for 'all men.' We usually pray more for things than we do for men. Our prayers should be thrown across their pathway as they rush in their downward course to a lost eternity. Edward McKendree Bounds
prayer praying study
We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours of rigorous study. Edward McKendree Bounds
prayer order needs
The central significance of prayer is not in the things that happen as results, but in the deepening intimacy and unhurried communion with God at His central throne of control in order to discover a sense of God's need in order to call on God's help to meet that need. Edward McKendree Bounds
prayer moving spirit
Every mighty move of the Spirit of God has had its source in the prayer chamber. Edward McKendree Bounds
prayer men religion
The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men. Edward McKendree Bounds
prayer done gains
We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles, overcomes every resisting force and gains its ends in the face of invincible hindrances. Edward McKendree Bounds
prayer holy made
We cannot talk to God strongly when we have not lived for God strongly. The closet cannot be made holy to God when the life has not been holy to God. Edward McKendree Bounds
prayer leader power-of-god
They are not leaders because of brilliancy. ...but because, by the power of prayer, they could command the power of God. Edward McKendree Bounds
prayer delight privilege
Prayer should not be regarded as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege to be enjoyed, a rare delight that is always revealing some new beauty. Edward McKendree Bounds
prayer path praying
He who is too busy to pray will be too busy to live a holy life. Satan had rather we let the grass grow on the path to our prayer chamber than anything else. Edward McKendree Bounds
prayer soul alone-with-god
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 general it is best to have at least one hour alone with God before engaging in anything else. Edward McKendree Bounds
prayer heart hands
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. Edward McKendree Bounds
prayer honor aids
Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid. Edward McKendree Bounds
prayer men voice
Trouble and prayer are closely related. Trouble often drives men to God in prayer, while prayer is but the voice of men in trouble. Edward McKendree Bounds
prayer heart important
The most important lesson we can learn is how to pray. Prayers do not die, prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them. Edward McKendree Bounds