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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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Shelby County
Missouri
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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if the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion.
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Praying men are God's agents on earth, the representative of government of Heaven, set to a specific task on the earth.
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Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.
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When trust is perfect and there is no doubt, prayer is simply the outstretched hand ready to receive.
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We must lose all for Christ in order to gain all for Christ.
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The stream of praying cannot rise higher than the fountain of living.
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That man cannot possibly be called a Christian, who does not pray.
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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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Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.
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Only God can move mountains, but faith and prayer can move God
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The story of every great Christian achievement is the history of answered prayer.
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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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Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need.
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The sanctity of prayer is needed to impregnate business. We need the spirit of Sunday carried over to Monday and continued until Saturday. But this cannot be done by prayerless men, but by men of prayer.
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Prayer is the one prime, eternal condition by which the Father is pledged to put the Son in possession of the world. Christ prays through His people. Had there been importunate, universal, and continuous prayer by God's people, long ere this the earth had been possessed for Christ.
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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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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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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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