Quotes by E. M. Bounds

“Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need.”

“Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.”

“Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer”

“There is a vast difference between saying prayers and praying”

“Prayer moves the hand that moves the universe.”

It (prayer) dispels frivolity and drives away all skin-deep forms of worship, and makes worship a serious and deep-seated service, impregnating body, soul, and spirit with its heavenly infusion.

Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at Gods footstool. Too often we get faint-hearted and quit praying at the point when we ought to begin. We let go at the very point where we should hold on strongest. Our prayers are weak because they are not impassioned by an unfailing and resistless will.

We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles overcomes every resisting force and gains its ends in the face of invincible hindrances.

Faith and hope and patience and all the strong beautiful vital forces of piety are withered and dead in a prayerless life. The life of the individual believer his personal salvation and personal Christian graces have their being bloom and fruitage in prayer.

God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.

By prayer the ability is secured to feel the law of love to speak according to the law of love and to do everything in harmony with the law of love.

Non-praying is lawlessness discord anarchy.

Prayer is of transcendent importance. Prayer is the mightiest agent to advance Gods work. Praying hearts and hands only can do Gods work. Prayer succeeds when all else fails.

The goal of prayer is the ear of God a goal that can only be reached by patient and continued and continuous waiting upon Him pouring out our heart to Him and permitting Him to speak to us. Only by so doing can we expect to know Him and as we come to know Him better we shall spend more time in His presence and find that presence a constant and ever-increasing delight.

Prayer honors God acknowledges His being exalts His power adores His providence secures His aid.

Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care much thought practice and labour are required to be a skillful tradesman in praying. Practice in this as well as in all other trades makes perfect.

Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer but a capacity for faith the power of a thorough consecration the ability of self-littleness an absolute losing of ones self in Gods glory and an ever present and insatiable yearning and seeking after all the fullness of God.

The more praying there is in the world the better the world will be the mightier the forces against evil everywhere.

Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. Choked to death would be the coroners verdict in many cases of dead praying if an inquest could be secured on this dire spiritual calamity.

I feel it is far better to begin with God to see His face first to get my soul near Him before it is near another. In general it is best to have at least one hour alone with God before engaging in anything else.