Edward McKendree Bounds Quotes

Prayer is not optional for the Christian; it is required.

If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.

If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer. Most of my struggles in the Christian life circle around the same two themes: why God doesn't act the way we want God to, and why I don't act the way God wants me to. Prayer is the precise point where those themes converge.

You may as soon find a living man who does not breathe, as a living Christian who does not pray.

If you want to be holy then you must give time to God and not just intend to.

Go to church once a week and nobody pays attention. Worship God seven days a week and you become strange!

Start today by practicing constant conversation with God and continual mediation on his Word. Prayer lets you speak to God; mediation lets God speak to you.

Prayer is not just getting ready for Christian service. Prayer is Christian service.

Picking up our Bibles, we should give God our full attention, withhold our opinion until we understand what He is saying, listen without interrupting, and respond with understanding and obedience.

The child asks of the Father whom he knows. Thus, the essence of Christian prayer is not general adoration, but definite, concrete petition. The right way to approach God is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father.

For the Deist ... prayer is calling across a void to a distant deity. This lofty figure may or may not be listening. He, or it, may or may not be inclined, or even able, to do very much about us and our world, even if he (or it) wanted to ... all you can do is send off a message, like a marooned sailor scribbling a note and putting it in a bottle, on the off-chance that someone out there might pick it up. That kind of prayer takes a good deal of faith and hope. But it isn't Christian prayer.

Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything.

Nothing is more vital than prayer in Christian existence, and few things are more vulnerable to neglect.

Prayer can come in only when fasting has done its work. It can make fasting easy and bearable.

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

It is not enough to begin to pray, nor to pray aright; nor is it enough to continue for a time to pray; but we must patiently, believingly, continue in prayer until we obtain an answer; and further we have not only to continue in prayer unto the end, but we have also to believe that God does hear us, and will answer our prayers. Most frequently we fail in not continuing in prayer until the blessing is obtained, and in not expecting the blessing.

It pleases our heavenly Father when we acknowledge and confess to Him our inability to run our own lives. That is what we are doing when we say, "Father, help me! I need You!"

Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.

Confession should be a daily activity for the Christian, whose entire pilgrimage is characterized by the spirit of repentance.

Prayer is to the Christian what breath is to life, yet no duty of the Christian is so neglected.

Prayer, humility, and charity toward all are essential in the Christian life: they are the way to holiness.

Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God, here and now.

Prayer is a form of communication between God and man and man and God... I am always impressed by the fact that it is recorded that the only thing that the disciples asked Jesus to teach them how to do was to pray.

An ongoing relationship with God through His Word is essential to the Christian's consistent victory!

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