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If we would have God in the closet, God must have us out of the closet. There is no way of praying to God, but by living to God.

Edward McKendree Bounds

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Edward McKendree Bounds
Age: 78 †
Born: 1835
Born: August 15
Died: 1913
Died: August 24
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Shelby County
Missouri
E. M. Bounds
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Praying gives sense, brings wisdom, broadens and strengthens the mind. The closet is a perfect school-teacher and schoolhouse for the preacher. Thought is not only brightened and clarified in prayer, but thought is born in prayer. We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours in the study.
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We regard prayer no longer as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege which is to be enjoyed, a rare delight that is always revealing some new beauty.
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Crucified preaching only can give life. Crucified preaching can come only from a crucified man.
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Love is kindled in a flame, and ardency is its life. Flame is the air which true Christian experience breathes. It feeds on fire it can withstand anything rather than a feeble flame but when the surrounding atmosphere is frigid or lukewarm, it dies, chilled and starved to its vitals. True prayer must be aflame.
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Our praying, however, needs to be pressed and pursued with an energy that never tires, a persistency which will not be denied, and a courage which never fails.
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He only can truly pray who is all aglow for holiness, for God, and for heaven.
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Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need.
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Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.
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Prayer is of transcendent importance. Prayer is the mightiest agent to advance God's work. Praying hearts and hands only can do God's work. Prayer succeeds when all else fails.
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God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. The lips that uttered them may be closed to death, the heart that felt them may have ceased to beat, but the prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them and prayers outlive the lives of those who uttered them they outlive a generation, outlive an age, outlive a world.
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The only limits to prayer are the promises of God and His ability to fulfill those promises.
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Mans access in prayer to God opens everything and makes his impoverishment his wealth. All things are his through prayer.
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The stream of praying cannot rise higher than the fountain of living.
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The men who have most fully illustrated Christ in their character and have most powerfully affected the world for Him have been men who spend so much time with God as to make it a notable feature in their lives.
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Prayer, like faith, obtains promises, enlarges their operation, and adds to the measure of their results.
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God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces of against evil
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Men would pray better if they lived better. They would get more from God if they lived more obedient and well-pleasing to God.
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Prayer is a specific divine appointment, an ordinance of Heaven, whereby God purposes to carry out His gracious designs on earth and to execute and make efficient the plan of salvation.
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A life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life.
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Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.
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