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Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need.

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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Needs
Men
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. . . every preacher who does not make prayer a mighty factor in his own life and ministry is weak as a factor in God's work and is powerless to project God's cause in this world.
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Preaching is not the performance of an hour. It is the outflow of a life. It takes twenty years to make a sermon because it takes twenty years to make the man. The true sermon is a thing of life. The sermon grows because the man grows.
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The prayers of God's saints strengthen the unborn generation against the desolating waves of sin and evil.
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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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Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still.
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Every mighty move of the Spirit of God has had its source in the prayer chamber.
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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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We cannot talk to God strongly when we have not lived for God strongly. The closet cannot be made holy to God when the life has not been holy to God.
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Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care, much thought, practice and labour are required to be a skillful tradesman in praying. Practice in this, as well as in all other trades, makes perfect.
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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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No man can do a great and enduring work for God who is not a man of prayer, and no man can be a man of prayer who does not give much time to praying.
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Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.
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Prayer thrives in the atmosphere of true devotion.
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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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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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Prayer concerns God, whose purposes and plans are conditioned on prayer. His will and His glory are bound up in praying.
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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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