Edward McKendree Bounds Quotes To Inspire, Motivate And Encourage You
Edward McKendree Bounds Quotes To Inspire, Motivate And Encourage You
“The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.” ― E.M. Bounds
“A prepared heart is much better than a prepared sermon. A prepared heart will make a prepared sermon.”― E.M. Bounds
“Preaching never edifies a prayerless soul.” ― E.M. Bounds
“Men and women are needed whose prayers will give to the world the utmost power of God; who will make His promises to blossom with rich and full results. ― E.M. Bounds
"God is waiting to hear us and challenges us to bring Him to do this thing by our praying. He is asking us, to-day, as He did His ancient Israel, to prove Him now herewith." ― E.M. Bounds
“Nothing is well done without prayer for the simple reason that it leaves God out of the account.” ― E.M. Bounds
“Public prayers of are of little value unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying.” ― E.M. Bounds
“Short devotions are the bane of deep piety. Calmness, grasp, strength, are never the companions of hurry.” ― E.M. Bounds
"Private place and plenty of time are the life of prayer." ― E.M. Bounds
“When faith ceases to pray, it ceases to live.” ― E.M. Bounds
“Whatever affects the intensity of our praying affects the value of our work.” ― E.M. Bounds
"When trust is perfect and there is no doubt, prayer is simply the outstretched hand ready to receive." ― E.M. Bounds
“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.” ― E.M. Bounds
“The Word of God is the fulcrum upon which the lever of prayer is placed, and by which things are mightily moved.” ― E.M. Bounds
“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.” ― E.M. Bounds
“True prayers are born of present trials and present needs." ― E.M. Bounds
"Bread for today is bread enough." ― E.M. Bounds
"Bread given for today is the strongest sort of pledge that there will be bread tomorrow." ― E.M. Bounds
“Part of the blame lies at our door. If we do our part, God will do His." ― E.M. Bounds
"Around us is a world lost in sin, above us is a God willing and able to save." ― E.M. Bounds
"God shapes the world by prayer." ― E.M. Bounds
"We can do nothing without prayer." ― E.M. Bounds
"Prayer is of transcendent importance." ― E.M. Bounds
"Prayer is the mightiest agent to advance God's work." ― E.M. Bounds
"Victory today is the assurance of victory tomorrow." ― E.M. Bounds
"That man cannot possibly be called a Christian, who does not pray." ― E.M. Bounds
"Prayer is the lungs through which holiness breathes." ― E.M. Bounds
"Prayer is the task and duty of each recurring day -- daily prayer for daily needs.” ― E.M. Bounds
"A prepared heart is much better than a prepared sermon. A prepared heart will make a prepared sermon.”― E.M. Bounds
"They thrive best, and get most out of life, who live in the living present." ― E.M. Bounds
"Praying hearts and hands only can do God's work. Prayer succeeds when all else fails." ― E.M. Bounds
"Men are God's method. The church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men." ― E.M. Bounds
"Prayer is our most formidable weapon, the thing which makes all else we do efficient." ― E.M. Bounds
"Prayer puts God's work in his hands-and keeps it there." ― E.M. Bounds
“Prayer gives us eyes to see God. Prayer is seeing God.” ― E.M. Bounds
“God is vitally concerned that men should pray." ― E.M. Bounds
"The story of every great Christian achievement is the history of answered prayer." ― E.M. Bounds
"Men are bettered by prayer and the world is bettered by praying." ― E.M. Bounds
"God’s greatest glory and man’s highest good are secured by prayer." ― E.M. Bounds
"Trust perfected is prayer perfected. Trust looks to receive the thing asked for and gets it." ― E.M. Bounds
"Trust is not a belief that God can bless or that He will bless, but that He does bless, here and now." ― E.M. Bounds
"So, what prayer needs, at all times, is abiding and abundant trust." ― E.M. Bounds
"Prayer goes everywhere and lays its hand upon everything." ― E.M. Bounds
"The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees." ― E.M. Bounds
"Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still." ― E.M. Bounds
"Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet." ― E.M. Bounds
"The story of every great Christian achievement is the history of answered prayer." ― E.M. Bounds
"When trust is perfect and there is no doubt, prayer is simply the outstretched hand ready to receive." ― E.M. Bounds
"Public prayers are of little worth unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying." ― E.M. Bounds
"We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours of rigorous study. "― E.M. Bounds
"God would have His children incorrigibly in earnest and persistently bold in their efforts." ― E.M. Bounds
"Our whole being must be in our praying." ― E.M. Bounds
"There is no way of praying to God, but by living to God." ― E.M. Bounds
"Non-praying is lawlessness, discord, anarchy." ― E.M. Bounds
"Only God can move mountains, but faith and prayer can move God." ― E.M. Bounds
"Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid." ― E.M. Bounds
"If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day." ― E.M. Bounds
“The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees". ― E.M. Bounds
"Prayer is not only the language of spiritual life, but also makes its very essence and forms its real character." ― E.M. Bounds
"All God's plans have the mark of the cross on them, and all His plans have death to self in them." ― E.M. Bounds
Behind God's Word is God Himself, and we read: "Thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, his Maker: Ask of me of things to come and concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands, command ye me." ― E.M. Bounds
Four things let us ever keep in mind: God hears prayer, God heeds prayer, God answers prayer, and God delivers by prayer. ― E.M. Bounds
He who is too busy to pray will be too busy to live a holy life. Satan had rather we let the grass grow on the path to our prayer chamber than anything else. ― E.M. Bounds
What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. ― E.M. Bounds
The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men, men of prayer. ― E.M. Bounds
“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.” ― E.M. Bounds
I think Christians fail so often to get answers to their prayers because they do not wait long enough on God. They just drop down and say a few words, and then jump up and forget it and expect God to answer them. ― E.M. Bounds
Our prayers need to be focused upon the present. We must trust God today, and leave the morrow entirely with Him. The present is ours; the future belongs to God. ― E.M. Bounds
O for a faith that will not shrink though pressed by every foe; That will not tremble on the brink of any earthly woe. Lord, give us such a faith as this... whatever may come. ― E.M. Bounds
“What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use -- men of prayer, men mighty in prayer." ― E.M. Bounds
“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.” ― E.M. Bounds
"As though God places Himself in the hands and at the disposal of His people who pray - as indeed He does." ― E.M. Bounds
“God's plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God's method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men. ” ― E.M. Bounds
He who fritters away the early morning, its opportunity and freshness, in other pursuits than seeking God will make poor headway seeking Him the rest of the day. ― E.M. Bounds
If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day.” ― E.M. Bounds
“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.”― E.M. Bounds
“We have emphasized sermon-preparation until we have lost sight of the important thing to be prepared—the heart. ― E.M.Bounds
"Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid." ― E.M. Bounds
“The praying which makes a prayerful ministry is not a little praying put in as we put flavor to give it a pleasant smack, but the praying must be in the body, and form the blood and bones. ― E.M. Bounds
“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.” ― E.M. Bounds
“When we pray, "Give us this day our daily bread," we are, in a measure, shutting tomorrow out of our prayer. We do not live in tomorrow but in today. We do not seek tomorrow's grace or tomorrow's bread." ― E.M. Bounds
Prayer is no petty duty, put into a corner; no piecemeal performance made out of the fragments of time which have been snatched from business and other engagements of life; but it means that the best of our time, the heart of our time and strength must be given.”
― E.M. Bounds
“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.”
― E.M. Bounds
“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.”
― E.M. Bounds
“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.” ― E.M.Bounds
They pray best who pray for today's needs, not for tomorrow's, which may render our prayers unnecessary and redundant by not existing at all!” ― E.M. Bounds
“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.”― E.M.Bounds
“It is not great talents nor great learning nor great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God -- men always preaching by holy sermons in the pulpit, by holy lives out of it.”― E.M. Bounds
"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." ― E.M. Bounds
The great truths of revelation are neither able to preach nor defend themselves. They must have soldier preachers who proclaim and defend them. They have never conquered as silent force; they have never won as a reserve corps. ― E.M. Bounds
“The preacher must be surrendered to God in the holiest devotion. He is not a professional man, his ministry is not a profession; it is a divine institution, a divine devotion. He is devoted to God. His aim, aspirations, ambition are for God and to God, and to such prayer is as essential as food is to life.”― E. M. Bounds
"The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men -- men of prayer.” ― E. M. Bounds
The dominant element of all praying is faith, that is conspicuous, cardinal and emphatic. Without such faith it is impossible to please God, and equally impossible to pray.” ― E. M. Bounds