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It is not great talents or great learning or great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God.

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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He only can truly pray who is all aglow for holiness, for God, and for heaven.
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The reformer is one who with clarion voice will call the ministry back to it's knees.
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It is true that Bible prayers in word and print are short, but the praying men of the Bible were with God through many a sweet and holy wrestling hour. They won by few words but long waiting.
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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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Mans access in prayer to God opens everything and makes his impoverishment his wealth. All things are his through prayer.
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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 shapes the world by prayer.
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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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Bible revelations are not against reason but above reason, for the uses of faith, mans highest faculty.
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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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No erudition, no purity of diction, no width of mental outlook, no flowers of eloquence, no grace of person can atone for lack of fire. Prayer ascends by fire. Flame gives prayer access as well as wings, acceptance as well as energy. There is no incense without fire no prayer without flame.
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Love is kindled in a flame, and ardency is its life. Flame is the air which true Christian experience breathes. It feeds on fire it can withstand anything rather than a feeble flame but when the surrounding atmosphere is frigid or lukewarm, it dies, chilled and starved to its vitals. True prayer must be aflame.
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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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Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.
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If we would have God in the closet, God must have us out of the closet. There is no way of praying to God, but by living to God.
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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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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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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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We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours of rigorous study.
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Prayer succeeds when all else fails
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