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Public prayers are of little worth unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying.
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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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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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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Prayer is the lungs through which holiness breathes. Prayer is not only the language of spiritual life, but also makes its very essence and forms its real character. O for a faith that will not shrink though pressed by every foe That will not tremble on the brink of any earthly woe. Lord, give us such a faith as this... whatever may come.
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God is waiting to be put to the test by His people in prayer. He delights in being put to the test on His promises. It is His highest pleasure to answer prayer, to prove the reliability of His promises.
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Praying men are God's agents on earth, the representative of government of Heaven, set to a specific task on the earth.
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Prayer is God's plan to supply man's great and continuous need with God's great and continuous abundance.
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Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need.
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Prayer and a holy life are one. They mutually act and react. Neither can survive alone. The absence of the one is the absence of the other.
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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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The story of every great Christian achievement is the history of answered prayer.
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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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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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A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet.
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Apostolic preaching cannot be carried on unless there be apostolic prayer. Men of God, before anything else, are indispensable to the furtherance of the kingdom of God on earth.
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God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.
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The world needs more true praying to save it from the reign and ruin of Satan.
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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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