Edward McKendree Bounds Quotes

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

I pray almost every day, and you can see that I pray on the pitch. I pray in the dressing room. That is just part of my life.

We pray before everything - videos, onstage, TV shows. I think that has a lot to do with being successful.

I pray every morning and night before bed.

I prayed every day of my life, and that was instilled in me as a kid, and as I've gotten older, that's just matured in me.

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

Begin each day with God. It will change your priorities.

If we are to be just like Jesus, we must have regular time of talking to God and listening to his Word.

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.

Jesus’ example of fidelity to prayer challenges us to examine the time and effort we devote to our own prayer. While prayer is a gift of God, it is also an art learned through constant practice. Jesus teaches us to pray constantly, but also to bear witness before others of the beauty of prayer, self-surrender and complete openness to God.

Fastings and vigils without a special object in view are time run to waste.

. . . in the spiritual life you must practice. And the only way to practice is by trying to solve your problems with prayer. This develops your spiritual power and it also trains you to use that spiritual power in the most effective way.

It is not a matter of time so much as a matter of heart; if you have the heart to pray, you will find the time.

Cease to pray and thou will begin to sin. Prayer is not only a means to prevail for mercy but also to prevent sin.

If you pray for bread and bring no basket to carry it, you prove the doubting spirit, which may be the only hindrance to the boon you ask.

If you have ever prayed in the dawn you will ask yourself why you were so foolish as not to do it always: it is difficult to get into communion with God in the midst of the hurly-burly of the day.

A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet.

Praying that does not result in right thinking and right living is a farce. We have missed the whole office of prayer if it fails to purge our character and correct conduct. We have failed entirely to understand the virtue of prayer, if it does not bring about the revolutionizing of life. In the very nature of tings, we must either quit praying or quit our bad conduct.

Prayer is the breath of life to our soul; holiness is impossible without it

Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.

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

There is a immense difference between training to do something and trying to do something....Sp iritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.... Following Jesus simply means learning from him how to arrange my life around activities that enable me to live in the fruit of the Spirit

Worship seals all prayers at the front and at the back. Always pray with praise beginning and praise ending.

They, therefore, who are hasty in their devotions and think a little will do, are strangers both to the nature of devotion and the nature of man; they do not know that they are to learn to pray, and that prayer is to be learnt as they learn other things, by frequency, constancy, and perseverance.

Dear young friends, learn to pray every day: this is the way to know Jesus and invite him into your lives.