Top 45 E. M. Bounds Quotes
#1. Our ability to stay with God in our closet measures our ability to stay with God out of the closet.
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#2. Praying men are a necessity in carrying out the divine plan for the salvation of men.
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#4. God can even affect the mind of a heathen ruler, and this he can do in answer to prayer without in the least overturning his free agency or forcing his will.
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#5. Short devotions are the bane of deep piety. Calmness, grasp, strength, are never the companions of hurry.
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#6. Nothing is well done without prayer for the simple reason that it leaves God out of the account.
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#7. 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.
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#8. Spiritual work is taxing work, and men are loath to do it. Praying, true praying, costs an outlay of serious attention and of time, which flesh and blood do not relish.
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#9. When faith ceases to pray, it ceases to live.
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#10. Let all the present day praying be measured by these standards "Pouring out the soul before God," and "Seeking with all the heart,
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#11. The preacher must have, bonds of a servant with the spirit of a king, a king in high, royal, independent bearing, with the simplicity and sweetness of a child.
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#12. When thou feelest thyself most indisposed to prayer yield not to it, but strive and endeavor to pray even when thou thinkest thou canst not pray. - Hildersam
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#13. Public prayers of are of little value unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying.
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#14. Lack of spiritual desire should grieve us and lead us to lament its absence, to seek earnestly for its bestowal, so that our praying, henceforth, should be an expression of the soul's sincere desire.
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#15. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.
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#16. The Word of God is the fulcrum upon which the lever of prayer is placed, and by which things are mightily moved.
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#17. It is not by the obvious works of evil that Satan perverts the church, but by quiet displacement and unnoticed substitution.
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#18. Prayer has to do with the entire man. Prayer takes in man in his whole being, mind, soul and body.
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#19. Luther's maxim, To have prayed well is to have studied well.
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#20. Prayer can do anything that God can do. The pity is that we do not believe this as we ought, and we do not put it to the test.
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#21. Prayer is the condition by which all foes are to be overcome and all the inheritance is to be possessed.
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#22. Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still. He will never talk well and with real success to men for God who has not learned well how to talk to God for men.
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#23. To men who think prayer their main business and devote time to it according to this high estimate of its importance does God commit the keys of His kingdom, and by them does He work His spiritual wonders in this world
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#24. To him who prays, and as he prays, the hour is sacred because it is God's hour
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#25. The ministry of prayer, if it be anything worthy of the name, is a ministry of ardor, a ministry of unwearied and intense longing after God and after his holiness.
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#26. Another scheme of Satan is to eliminate from the church all the humble, self-denying ordinances that are offensive to unsanctified tastes and unregenerate hearts. He seeks to reduce the church to a mere human institution - popular, natural, fleshly, and pleasing.
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#27. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.
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#28. Whatever affects the intensity of our praying affects the value of our work.
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#29. The great power and malignity of Satan is seen in that among the most distressing cases were those who were not noted for great sins, but the young and comparative innocent ones were the victims of his dread power.
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#30. A prepared heart is much better than a prepared sermon. A prepared heart will make a prepared sermon.
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#31. Our devotions are not measured by the clock, but time is of the essence. The ability to wait, and stay, and press belongs essentially to our intercourse with God.
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#32. The law of prayer, the right to pray, rests on sonship.
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#33. Prayer is the greatest of all forces, because it honors God and brings Him into active aid.
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#34. The preaching of the Word to a prayerless congregation falls at the very feet of the preacher.
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#35. He who is too busy to pray will be too busy to live a holy life. Other
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#36. Be careful for nothing, but in everything, by supplication and prayer, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God. That is the Divine cure for all fear, anxiety, and undue concern of soul, all of which are closely akin to doubt and unbelief.
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#37. Pray for "all men." We usually pray more for things than we do for men. Our prayers should be thrown across their pathway as they rush in their downward course to a lost eternity.
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#38. The little estimate we put on prayer is evidence from the little time we give to it.
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#39. Preaching never edifies a prayerless soul.
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#40. It is neither words, nor thoughts nor ideas, nor feelings, which shape praying, but character and conduct.
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#41. Prayer is the outstretched arms of the child for the Father's help.
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#42. Our praying needs to be pressed and pursued with an energy that never tires, a persistency which will not be denied, and a courage that never fails.
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#43. Prayer gives us eyes to see God. Prayer is seeing God.
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#44. Long, discursive, dry, and inane are the prayers in many pulpits. Without unction or heart, they fall like a killing frost on all the graces of worship. Death-dealing prayers they are. Every vestige of devotion has perished under their breath. The deader they are the longer they grow.
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#45. God's revelation does not need the light of human genius, the polish and strength of human culture, the brilliancy of human thought, the force of human brains to adorn or enforce it; but it does demand the simplicity, the docility, humility, and faith of a child's heart.
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