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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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Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need.
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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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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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I feel it is far better to begin with God, to see His face first, to get my soul near Him before it is near another. In general it is best to have at least one hour alone with God before engaging in anything else.
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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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The character of our praying will determine the character of our preaching. Light praying makes light preaching.
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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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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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The stream of praying cannot rise higher than the fountain of living.
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By prayer, the ability is secured to feel the law of love, to speak according to the law of love, and to do everything in harmony with the law of love.
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God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.
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God's cause is committed to men God commits Himself to men. Praying men are the vice-regents of God they do His work and carry out His plans.
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We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles, overcomes every resisting force and gains its ends in the face of invincible hindrances.
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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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The first and last stages of holy living are crowned with praying.
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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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A life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life.
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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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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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Every mighty move of the Spirit of God has had its source in the prayer chamber.
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