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The story of every great Christian achievement is the history of answered prayer.

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
Every
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Christianity
Prayer
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The resurrection of Jesus Christ was necessary to establish the truth of his mission and put the stamp of all-conquering power on his gospel.
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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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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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When trust is perfect and there is no doubt, prayer is simply the outstretched hand ready to receive.
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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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The character of our praying will determine the character of our preaching. Light praying makes light preaching.
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Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer.
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Every mighty move of the Spirit of God has had its source in the prayer chamber.
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In doing God's work, there is no substitute for praying. The men of prayer cannot be displaced with other kinds of men.
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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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The Scriptures bear ample and continuous evidence that the faith of the resurrection of the body lies in the faith that Jesus Christ died and rose again.
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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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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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Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.
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Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need.
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The world needs more true praying to save it from the reign and ruin of Satan.
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Public prayers are of little worth unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying.
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We must lose all for Christ in order to gain all for Christ.
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