Edward McKendree Bounds Quotes

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Open your heart and invite God into every circumstance because when God enters the scene, miracles happen.

God is no further from you on your worst day than He is on your best day. Just open your heart to receive Him and His love.

Our prayer cannot be reduced to an hour on Sundays. It is important to have a daily relationship with the Lord.

All places are places of worship to a Christian. Wherever he is, he ought to be in a worshiping frame of mind.

Two things make a relationship providential: when we hear from God through someone and when we see God in someone.

Prayer is the opening of the heart to God as to a friend. Not that it is necessary in order to make known to God what we are, but in order to enable us to receive Him. Prayer does not bring God down to us, but brings us up to Him.

Do you believe that God is near? He wants you to. He wants you to know that He is in the midst of your world. Wherever you are as you read these words, He is present.

The main characteristic which is the proof of the indwelling Spirit is an amazing tenderness in personal dealing, and a blazing truthfulness with regard to God's Word.

The Lord's Prayer reminds us that God longs for His people to communicate with Him, not just in church on Sunday, but wherever we are and whatever our need.

I am not a religious man. I have not attended a service for many years. But I do believe in God. My own practice of religion, you could say, it a nonpractice. I personally feel that it's just as worthy on a weekend to rake the lawns of an elderly neighbor or to climb a mountain and marvel at the beauty of this land we live in as it is to sing hosannas or go to Mass. In other words, I think every many finds his own church- and not all of them have four walls - Judge Haig (Page 399)

My friends, it is one thing to go to church or chapel; it is quite another thing to go to God.

In the moment when you make the least petition to God, though it be but a silent wish that he may approve you, or add one moment to your life,--do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought? In that act, the soul stands alone with God, and Jesus is no more present to your mind than your brother or your child.

The highest condition of the religious sentiment is when. . . the worshiper not only sees God everywhere, but sees nothing which is not full of God.

As long as Christ sits on the throne, every day is a good day and all days are days of salvation.

I do my best to try to keep God with me on a personal level. It's my belief that God really wants a personal relationship with us.

The truth is: We serve a generous God. He delights in giving us opportunities beyond our capabilities. He has promised to equip us, and remain with us through each bend in the road.

Our pursuit of God is successful just because He is forever seeking to manifest Himself to us.

Ask God to show you any changes you need to make in your relationships. And make sure your closest relationship continues to be with Jesus Himself.

No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.

Worship is God's way of giving us an opportunity to shift our focus from our own concerns, problems, and circumstances to the way things are in heaven.

Don't wait until the moment of crisis. Plan ahead, hide God's Word in your heart, and pray in advance for victory, holiness, and a life pleasing to God.

God appeared to His people in the Old Testament and dwelt with His people in the New - and now abides in us by His Spirit.

Jesus tends to his people individually. He personally sees to our needs. We all receive Jesus' touch. We experience his care.

If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.