E.M. Bounds

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

- E.M. Bounds

""The little estimate we put on prayer is evident from the little time we give to it.""

- E.M. Bounds

""Trust receives what prayer acquires. So, what prayer needs, at all times, is abiding and abundant trust.""

- E.M. Bounds

""To be too busy with God’s work to commune with God is the highway to backsliding.""

- E.M. Bounds

""Holy living is essential preparation for prayer.""

- E.M. Bounds

""Without devotion prayer is an empty form, a vain round of words.""

- E.M. Bounds

""He who would pray, must obey. He who would get anything out of his prayers, must be in perfect harmony with God.""

- E.M. Bounds

""An obedient life is a great help to prayer.""

- E.M. Bounds

""Life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life.""

- E.M. Bounds

"Prayer makes a godly man, and puts within him the mind of Christ, the mind of humility, of self-surrender, of service, of pity, and of prayer. If we really pray, we will become more like God, or else we will quit praying."

- E.M. Bounds

""Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls.""

- E.M. Bounds

""We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer.""

- 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 succeeds when all else fails.""

- E.M. Bounds

""Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet.""

- 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 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

""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

"God requires to be represented by a fiery Church…two things are intolerable to Him – insincerity and lukewarmness."

- E.M. Bounds

"The life-giving preacher is a man of God, whose heart is ever athirst for God, whose soul is ever following hard after God, whose eye is single to God, and in whom by the power of God’s Spirit the flesh and the world have been crucified, and his ministry is like the generous flood of a life-giving river."

- E.M. Bounds

"Prayer succeeds when all else fails."

- E.M. Bounds

"The greatest benefactor this age could have is the man who will bring the teachers and the church back to prayer."

- E.M. Bounds

"Sainthood’s piety is made, refined, perfected, by prayer. The gospel moves with slow and timid pace when the saints are not at their prayers early and late and long."

- 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

"Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet."

- E.M. Bounds

"Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still."

- E.M. Bounds

"True prayer must be aflame. Christian life and character need to be all on fire."

- E.M. Bounds

"No erudition, no purity of diction, no width of mental outlook, no flowers of eloquence, no grace of person can atone for lack of fire. Prayer ascends by fire. Flame gives prayer access as well as wings, acceptance as well as energy. There is no incense without fire; no prayer without flame."

- E.M. Bounds

"The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees. 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. 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

"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."

- E.M. Bounds

"God draws mightily near to the praying soul."

- E.M. Bounds

"You know the value of prayer: it is precious beyond all price."

- E.M. Bounds

"The little estimate we put on prayer is evident from the little time we give to it."

- E.M. Bounds

"Without devotion prayer is an empty form, a vain round of words."

- E.M. Bounds

"God cannot help hearing the prayer of an obedient child."

- E.M. Bounds

"PRAYER, praise and thanksgiving all go in company."

- E.M. Bounds

"To see God, to know God, and to live for God-these form the objective of all true praying."

- E.M. Bounds

"Pray without ceasing; continue in prayer; continuing instant in prayer; in everything by prayer, let your request be made known unto God; pray always, pray and not faint; men should pray everywhere; praying always, with all prayer and supplication."

- E.M. Bounds

"He who would pray, must obey. He who would get anything out of his prayers, must be in perfect harmony with God. Prayer puts into those who sincerely pray a spirit of obedience, for the spirit of disobedience is not of God and belongs not to God's praying hosts."

- E.M. Bounds

"An obedient life is a great help to prayer. In fact, an obedient life is a necessity to prayer, to the sort which accomplishes things. The absence of an obedient life makes prayer an empty performance, a mere misnomer. A penitent sinner seeks pardon and salvation and has an answer to his prayers even with a life stained and debauched with sin. But God's royal intercessors come before him with royal lives. Holy living promotes holy praying. God's intercessors "lift up holy hands," the symbols of righteous, obedient lives."

- 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

"Enthusiasm is more active than faith, though enthusiasm cannot remove mountains nor call into action any of the omnipotent forces which faith can command. Activity is often at the expense of more solid, useful elements, and generally to the total neglect of prayer. To be too busy with God’s work to commune with God, to be busy with doing church work without taking time to talk to God about His work, is the highway to backsliding, and many people have walked therein to the hurt of their immortal souls."

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"Wise is he in the day of trouble who knows his true source of strength and who fails not to pray."

- E.M. Bounds

"God’s acquaintance is not made hurriedly."

- E.M. Bounds

"God does not bestow His gifts on the casual of hasty comers and goers. Much with God alone is the secret of knowing Him and of influence with Him."

- E.M. Bounds

"Prayer is God’s plan to supply man’s great and continuous need with God’s great and continuous abundance."

- E.M. Bounds

"Life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life."

- E.M. Bounds

"Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God’s saints have been held."

- E.M. Bounds

"The character of our praying will determine the character of our preaching. Light praying makes light preaching."

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"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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"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

""God cannot help hearing the prayer of an obedient child.""

- E.M. Bounds

""God draws mightily near to the praying soul.""

- E.M. Bounds

""Prayer is the greatest of all forces, because it honors God and brings him into active aid.""

- E.M. Bounds

""Prayer is God’s plan to supply man’s great and continuous need with God’s great and continuous abundance.""

- E.M. Bounds

""To see God, to know God, and to live for God-these form the objective of all true praying.""

- E.M. Bounds

""The goal of prayer is the ear of God.""

- E.M. Bounds

""Private place and plenty of time are the life of prayer.""

- E.M. Bounds

""God does not bestow His gifts on the casual of hasty comers and goers. Much with God alone is the secret of knowing Him and of influence with Him.""

- E.M. Bounds

""You know the value of prayer: it is precious beyond all price.""

- E.M. Bounds

"Giving thanks is the very life of prayer."

- 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 should not be regarded as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege to be enjoyed, a rare delight that is always revealing some new beauty.""

- E.M. Bounds

"Prayer should not be regarded as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege to be enjoyed, a rare delight that is always revealing some new beauty."

- E.M. Bounds

""Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer.""

- E.M. Bounds

""The story of every great Christian achievement is the history of answered prayer.""

- E.M. Bounds

""Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God’s saints have been held.""

- E.M. Bounds