Edward McKendree Bounds Quotes

To pray well is the better half of study.

Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.

One might pray and not be a Christian, but one cannot be a Christian and not pray.

Good praying is more easily caught than taught.

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

Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.

To be a Christian and to pray are one and the same thing; it is a matter that cannot be left to our caprice. It is a need, a kind of breathing necessary to life.

Everything starts with prayer. Love to pray-feel the need to pray often during the day and take the trouble to pray. If you want to pray better, you must pray more. The more you pray, the easier it becomes. Perfect prayer does not consist of many words but in the fervor of the desire which raises the heart to Jesus.

The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too much reading, however, and too little meditation, may produce the effect of a lamp inverted; which is extinguished by the very excess of that ailment, whose property is to feed it.

We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours of rigorous study.

Through prayer, fasting, and studying, God will answer.

To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.

Spirituality is no different from what we've been doing for two thousand years just by going to church and receiving the sacraments, being baptized, learning to pray, and reading Scriptures rightly. It's just ordinary stuff.

Spirituality - prayer - is a big part of my life.

You don't necessarily have to be religious to pray.

Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion.

I do devotion in the morning. I pray and I read the word.

It's very important to have that prayer life. It's very important to communicate always.

Shall I give you yet another reason why you should pray? I have preached my very heart out. I could not say any more than I have said. Will not your prayers accomplish that which my preaching fails to do? Is it not likely that the Church has been putting forth its preaching hand but not its praying hand? Oh dear friends! Let us agonize in prayer.

[Prayer] takes no time, but it occupies all our time.

I'd rather be able to pray than to be a great preacher; Jesus Christ never taught his disciples how to preach, but only how to pray.

Like art, like music, like so many other disciplines, prayer can only be appreciated when you actually spend time in it. Spending time with the Master will elevate your thinking. The more you pray, the more will be revealed. You will appreciate not only the greatness of prayer, but the greatness of God.

Prayer does not demand that we interrupt our work, but that we continue working as if it were a prayer.

Remember that you can pray any time, anywhere. Washing dishes, digging ditches, working in the office, in the shop, on the athletic field, even in prison - you can pray and know God hears!

Well-developed faith results in well-defined prayers, and well-defined prayers result in a well-lived life.