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Prayer is the greatest of all forces, because it honors God and brings him into active aid.

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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E. M. Bounds
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Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer but a capacity for faith, the power of a thorough consecration, the ability of self-littleness, an absolute losing of one's self in God's glory and an ever present and insatiable yearning and seeking after all the fullness of God.
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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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Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet.
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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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The first and last stages of holy living are crowned with praying.
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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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There is power through prayer. For many Christians, prayer is nothing special, just something we're supposed to do - go to church, tithe, read the Bible, pray. But prayer should be so much more than an item on our to do lists.
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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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He only can truly pray who is all aglow for holiness, for God, and for heaven.
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Prayer, like faith, obtains promises, enlarges their operation, and adds to the measure of their results.
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A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet.
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It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends, for none but the earnest man gets access to the ear of God.
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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 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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Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.
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Trouble and prayer are closely related. Trouble often drives men to God in prayer, while prayer is but the voice of men in trouble.
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The only limits to prayer are the promises of God and His ability to fulfill those promises.
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Trust is faith that has become absolute, approved, and accomplished. When all is said and done, there is a sort of risk in faith and its exercise. But trust is firm belief it is faith in full bloom. Trust is a conscious act, a fact of which we are aware.
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