Edward McKendree Bounds Quotes

A man can preach no better than he prays.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Our good nature and endearing qualities will not arouse the answers to our prayers. Rather it is our mischievous, dishonest attributes that provide the master keys to heaven. When we identify and work to transform our self-centered qualities and crooked characteristics, the key turns and the gates unlock. Blessings and good fortune are now free to rain down upon us.

We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.

Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.

In working with people across the country and around the world, I've come to know that most of us go through times that re-route our prayer life.

There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.

Prayer for many is like a foreign land. When we go there, we go as tourists. Like most tourists, we feel uncomfortable and out of place. Like most tourists, we therefore move on before too long and go somewhere else.

For Christians, they need to access the power of Jesus and not look at Christianity as a religion. It is our Lord Jesus that makes you change, and Christians need to actualize it and put it into practice.

What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life.

Observe the seven seasons of secret prayer every day.

When we change the way that we pray, everything changes.

Amen is not the end of a prayer, it just gets us ready to go to the next level.

There are many reasons our prayers may lack power. Sometimes they become routine. Our prayers become hollow when we say similar words in similar ways over and over so often that the words become more of a recitation than a communication.

Our faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word.

Until you pray, God cannot work.

The experience of prayer when there is no awareness of God and no apparent response from ourselves should not lead us to escape from prayer or give it up.

My prayer life and my connection with God are on the highest level.

Good character improves every aspect of a person’s life.

To be honest, I didn't want to believe that Christianity could radically transform someone's character and values. It was much easier to raise doubts and manufacture outrageous objections that to consider the possibility that God actually could trigger a revolutionary turn-around in such a depraved and degenerate life.

All things else being equal, our prayers are only as powerful as our lives. In the long pull we only pray as well as we live.

The finest defense of character is correct action. Acquaint yourself with virtue, and you can expect proper treatment from those around you.

God uses prayer to educate His people and to produce holiness of character in them.