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When trust is perfect and there is no doubt, prayer is simply the outstretched hand ready to receive.
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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God's Word does not say, Call unto me, and you will thereby be trained into the happy art of knowing how to be denied. Ask, and you will learn sweet patience by getting nothing. Far from it. But it is definite, clear and positive: Ask, and it shall be given unto you.
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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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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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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.
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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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He only can truly pray who is all aglow for holiness, for God, and for heaven.
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It is true that Bible prayers in word and print are short, but the praying men of the Bible were with God through many a sweet and holy wrestling hour. They won by few words but long waiting.
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Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been held.
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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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We must lose all for Christ in order to gain all for Christ.
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Christianity is not rationalism, but faith in Gods revelation. A conspicuous, all-important item in that revelation is the resurrection of the body.
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We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours of rigorous study.
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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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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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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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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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Only God can move mountains, but faith and prayer can move God
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Holy living is essential preparation for prayer.
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That man is the most immortal who has done the most and the best praying. They are God heroes, God's saints, God's servants, God's vicegerents.
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Prayer is the highest intelligence, the profoundest wisdom, the most vital, the most joyous, the most efficacious, the most powerful of all vocations.
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