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Prayer, like faith, obtains promises, enlarges their operation, and adds to the measure of their results.
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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E. M. Bounds
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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.
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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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if the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion.
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The world needs more true praying to save it from the reign and ruin of Satan.
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A man can pray better because of the prayers of the past a man can live holier because of the prayers of the past the man of many and acceptable prayers has done the truest and greatest service to the incoming generation.
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The lazy man does not, will not, cannot pray, for prayer demands energy.
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By prayer, the ability is secured to feel the law of love, to speak according to the law of love, and to do everything in harmony with the law of love.
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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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