Edward McKendree Bounds Quotes

It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.

At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men.

Priesthood is the means whereby the Lord acts through men to save souls. One of the defining features of the Church of Jesus Christ, both anciently and today, is His authority. There can be no true Church without divine authority.

If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God.

Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled, either by a power within them, or by a power without them; either by the word of God, or by the strong arm of man; either by the Bible, or by the bayonet.

We, Jesus' followers, are the agents assigned to carry out God's will on earth. Too easily we expect God to do something for us when instead God wants to do it through us.

We haven't done such a great job, so I don't know why God couldn't have started over somewhere else. I don't necessarily believe in aliens coming to the States, and I don't buy into the government cover-up.

Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns.

When we say that prayer puts God to work, it is simply to say that man has it in his power by prayer to move God to work in His own way among men, in which way He would not work if prayer was not made.

What Bill O'Reilly says means nothing. What Stephen Bennett says means nothing. What God says means everything.

At the heart of liberalism really is a hatred for God and a belief that government should replace God.

Superman when he goes after someone is essentially not trying to beat them, he is trying to save them from themselves... You're looking at a God who walks amongst men!

The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.

Righteousness and faith certainly are instrumental in healing the sick, deaf, or lame - if such healing accomplishes God's purposes and is in accordance with His will. Thus, even with strong faith, many mountains will not be moved. And not all of the sick and infirm will be healed.

God himself preserved the Bible, and brought it down through the ages.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

God will finish what He authors, but He is not obligated to finish what He has not authored.

Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God.

The highest service that men may attain to on earth is to preach the word of God. This service falls peculiarly to priests, and therefore, God more directly demands it of them.

God is the one who chooses our rulers.

The Great Governor of the World.

Men are never safe against the temptation of claiming God too simply as the sanctifier of whatever we most fervently desire.

The enthronement showed that the Emperor had assumed the reins of government with the benevolent heart of his ancestors and became the basis of the belief we have kept in our hearts and minds for thousands of years: namely that our majesty is a deity and a living God.

Government “for the people” should be called a government of God rather than of men.

God's institutions (such as the government of church and of commonwealth be) may be close and compact, and co-ordinate one to another, and yet not confounded.