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We can never know God as it is our privilege to know Him by brief repetitions that are requests for personal favors, and nothing more.

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
Privilege
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The soul which has come into intimate contact with God in the silence of the prayer chamber is never out of conscious touch with the Father the heart is always going out to Him in loving communion, and the moment the mind is released from the task upon which it is engaged, it returns as naturally to God as the bird does to its nest.
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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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Safety is in Heaven. Put your values there only put your heart there. No tears are there to flood your heart, no sorrows there to break it, no losses there to grieve and embitter.
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We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. That is the teaching of Jesus Christ
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The lazy man does not, will not, cannot pray, for prayer demands energy.
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We can never expect to grow in the likeness of our Lord unless we follow His example and give more time to communion with the Father. A revival of real praying would produce a spiritual revolution.
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Trouble and prayer are closely related. Trouble often drives men to God in prayer, while prayer is but the voice of men in trouble.
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It is hard to wait and press and pray, and hear no voice, but stay till God answers.
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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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That man cannot possibly be called a Christian, who does not pray.
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Every mighty move of the Spirit of God has had its source in the prayer chamber.
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The story of every great Christian achievement is the history of answered prayer.
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Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need.
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Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness to Him, make prayer a rare and feeble thing.
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I feel it is far better to begin with God, to see His face first, to get my soul near Him before it is near another. In general it is best to have at least one hour alone with God before engaging in anything else.
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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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