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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.
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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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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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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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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We can never expect to grow in the likeness of our Lord unless we follow His example and give more time to communion with the Father. A revival of real praying would produce a spiritual revolution.
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The lazy man does not, will not, cannot pray, for prayer demands energy.
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The world needs more true praying to save it from the reign and ruin of Satan.
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A life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life.
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Prayer is the greatest of all forces, because it honors God and brings him into active aid.
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The story of every great Christian achievement is the history of answered prayer.
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Praying men must be strong in hope, and faith, and prayer.
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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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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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The prayers of God's saints strengthen the unborn generation against the desolating waves of sin and evil.
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Every mighty move of the Spirit of God has had its source in the prayer chamber.
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