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A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet.

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