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God shapes the world by prayer.

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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Prayer
World

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Sainthood's piety is made, refined, perfected, by prayer. The gospel moves with slow and timid pace when the saints are not at their prayers early and late and long.
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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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Men would pray better if they lived better. They would get more from God if they lived more obedient and well-pleasing to God.
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He who would pray, must obey.
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Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet.
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Trust is faith that has become absolute, approved, and accomplished. When all is said and done, there is a sort of risk in faith and its exercise. But trust is firm belief it is faith in full bloom. Trust is a conscious act, a fact of which we are aware.
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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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We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours of rigorous 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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Prayer is a specific divine appointment, an ordinance of Heaven, whereby God purposes to carry out His gracious designs on earth and to execute and make efficient the plan of salvation.
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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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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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Crucified preaching only can give life. Crucified preaching can come only from a crucified man.
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He who is too busy to pray will be too busy to live a holy life. Satan had rather we let the grass grow on the path to our prayer chamber than 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 world needs more true praying to save it from the reign and ruin of Satan.
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The lazy man does not, will not, cannot pray, for prayer demands energy.
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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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It is necessary to iterate and reiterate that prayer, as a mere habit, as a performance gone through by routine or in a professional way, is a dead and rotten thing.
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The story of every great Christian achievement is the history of answered prayer.
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