Edward McKendree Bounds Quotes

When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over.

One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

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.

Yank some of the groans out of your prayers and shove in some shouts.

Most of us wait until we're in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we'd wake up and say, "Anything I can do for You today, Lord?"

Throughout the years I feel if God promotes me to stay alive and have more years to live on Earth, which I pray and I would love to, people are going to see my personality, and they're going to see more of me and be able to understand me more.

Believe in the power of prayer - it is real, it is wonderful, it is tremendous.

I always give all the glory to God, but I do not forget that He gave me the privilege of ministering from the first to a praying people. We had prayer meetings that moved our very souls, each one appeared determined to storm the Celestial City by the might of intercession.

No insistence in the Scripture is more pressing than that we must pray...How clear it is, when the Bible is consulted, that the almighty God is brought directly into the things of this world by the prayers of His people.

For many people, there is an almost power to be found in prayer.

You asked the Holy Spirit for a miracle, and now that you’ve got one you’re trying to argue it away. People who don’t believe in miracles shouldn’t pray for them.

It is not sufficient to pray diligently for guidance, but this prayer must be followed by meditation as to the best methods of action and then action itself... because prayers can only be answered through action and if someone's action is wrong, God can use that method of showing the pathway which is right.

Intercessory prayer is an act of communion with Christ, for Jesus pleads for the sons of men.

I know there are millions of people praying for me, and I strongly believe in prayers.

Dear Jesus, do something.

God uses people to help others. I only pray my faith is strong enough to get me through what I have to face.

People ask me, 'Why pray if God is sovereign?' I respond, 'Why pray if He isn't?

Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world.

Some people think prayer is telling God what to do. I don't think that's the case.

You are never more like Jesus than when you pray for others. Pray for this hurting world.

All is not done when we have spoken to God by prayer; our petitions are to be pursued with real endeavours.

Someone asked me whether I was aware of all the people out there who were praying for the President. And I had to say, "Yes, I am. I've felt it. I believe in intercessory prayer." But I couldn't help but say to that questioner after he'd asked the question that - or at least say to them that if sometimes when he was praying he got a busy signal, it was just me in there ahead of him.

Prayer ardent opens heaven.

I pray hard, work hard, and leave the rest to God.

Prayer alone will overcome the gigantic difficulties which confront the workers in every field.