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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
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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The first and last stages of holy living are crowned with praying.
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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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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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He only can truly pray who is all aglow for holiness, for God, and for heaven.
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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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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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The little estimate we put on prayer is evidence from the little time we give to it.
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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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The world needs more true praying to save it from the reign and ruin of Satan.
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We must lose all for Christ in order to gain all for Christ.
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Safety is in Heaven. Put your values there only put your heart there. No tears are there to flood your heart, no sorrows there to break it, no losses there to grieve and embitter.
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Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been held.
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Prayer thrives in the atmosphere of true devotion.
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Non-praying is lawlessness, discord, anarchy.
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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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