E. M. Bounds (1835-1913) was trained to be a lawyer before he entered the ministry during his twenties. Throughout his life he was a man deeply devoted to prayer who has inspired many through his books on prayer including: Power Through Prayer, The Essentials of Prayer, The Necessity of Prayer, and The Weapon of Prayer (and his complete works). Through his writings he has inspired many to deepen their dependence on God and usefulness to God through prayer. I hope these quotes do the same for you.
The Best E.M. Bounds Quotes on Prayer:
“God shapes the world by prayer.” E. M. Bounds
“Prayers outlive the lives of those who uttered them; outlive a generation, outlive an age, outlive a world.” E. M. Bounds
“The prayers of God’s saints are the capital stock in heaven by which Christ carries on His great work upon earth.” E. M. Bounds
“Ask of me is the one condition God puts in the very advance and triumph of His cause.” E. M. Bounds
“The secret of success in Christ’s Kingdom is the ability to pray.” E. M. Bounds
“The most important lesson we can learn is how to pray.” E. M. Bounds
“The story of every great Christian achievement is the history of answered prayer.” E. M. Bounds
“Prayer is the one prime, eternal condition by which the Father is pledged to put the Son in possession of the world. Christ prays through His people.” E. M. Bounds
“We do more of everything else than of praying.” E. M. Bounds
“I think Christians fail so often to get answers to their prayers because they do not wait long enough on God.” E. M. Bounds
“Walking with God down the avenues of prayer we acquire something of His likeness, and unconsciously we become witnesses to others of His beauty and His grace.” E. M. Bounds
“I purpose to take occasion of praying upon the sight of any church which I may pass, that God may be worshipped there in spirit, and that souls may be saved there.” E. M. Bounds
“Prayer with so many of us is simply a form of selfishness; it means asking for something for ourselves—that and nothing more.” E. M. Bounds
“This is not a praying age; it is an age of great activity, of great movements, but one in which the tendency is very strong to stress the seen and the material and to neglect and discount the unseen and the spiritual.” E. M. Bounds
“Prayer is the greatest of all forces, because it honours God and brings Him into active aid.” E. M. Bounds
“Prayer is our most formidable weapon, but the one in which we are the least skilled, the most averse to its use.” E. M. Bounds
“The first and last stages of holy living are crowned with praying. It is a life trade.” E. M. Bounds
“We are in danger of substituting churchly work and a ceaseless round of showy activities for prayer and holy living. A holy life does not live in the [prayer] closet, but it cannot live without the closet.” E. M. Bounds
“None but praying leaders can have praying followers.” E. M. Bounds
“Prayer is not the foe to work, it does not paralyze activity. It works mightily; prayer itself is the greatest work.” E. M. Bounds
“The [prayer] closet…is the battlefield of the Church; its citadel; the scene of heroic and unearthly conflicts.” E. M. Bounds
“The secret of prayer and its success lie in its urgency. We must press our prayers upon God.” E. M. Bounds
“We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer.” E. M. Bounds
“Prayer in its highest form and grandest success assumes the attitude of a wrestler with God.” E. M. Bounds
“Pray and never faint, is the motto Christ gives us for praying.” E. M. Bounds
“The Gospel cannot live, fight, conquer without prayer—prayer unceasing, instant and ardent.” E. M. Bounds
“Secret praying is the test, the gauge, the conserver of man’s relation to God.” E. M. Bounds
“Prayer is the mightiest agent to advance God’s work.” E. M. Bounds
“A revival of real praying would produce a spiritual revolution.” E. M. Bounds
“The possibilities of prayer run parallel with the promises of God.” E. M. Bounds
“Prayer puts God in the matter with commanding force.” E. M. Bounds
“We are charged in God’s Word ‘always to pray,’ ‘in everything by prayer,’ ‘continuing instant in prayer,’ to ‘pray everywhere,’ ‘praying always.’” E. M. Bounds
“When prayer fails, the world prevails.” E. M. Bounds
“A holy life is the only preparation for prayer.” E. M. Bounds
“We pray feebly because we live feebly.” E. M. Bounds
“The conditions of prayer are well ordered and clear—abiding in Christ; in His name.” E. M. Bounds
“Prayer is the helpless and needy child crying to the compassion of the Father’s heart and the bounty and power of a Father’s hand.” E. M. Bounds
“Part of the blame lies at our door. If we do our part, God will do His. Around us is a world lost in sin, above us is a God willing and able to save; it is ours to build the bridge that links heaven and earth, and prayer is the mighty instrument that does the work.” E. M. Bounds
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